Re: Using socks proxy with git for http(s) transport

From: Yves Blusseau <yves.blusseau@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 6, 2013, 09:35 UTC
Message-ID: <CABmRxH1=wjXXLDTCAO2Ge9YcBJq4yJQd4-NUs9P=qKWzh8kkjw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130306082110.GA31638@sigill.intra.peff.net>

2013/3/6 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:

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> Try:
>
>   git config --global http.proxy 'socks://yourhost:port'
>
> That will enable it for all git repositories on your machine. Git should
> also respect any environment variables that curl handles (because we use
> libcurl under the hood), if you prefer to set it up that way. See "man
> curl" for details.
>
> -Peff

Also try setting ALL_PROXY environment variable that curl handle: export ALL_PROXY='socks5://127.0.0.1:1080'

Work with curl: curl -v http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack

* About to connect() to proxy 127.0.0.1 port 1080 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:--
--:--:--     0* 198
* 145
* 20
* 140
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 1080 (#0)

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> GET /pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.29.1-DEV
> Host: git.kernel.org
> Accept: */*
>

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Server: nginx < Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:33:05 GMT < Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-advertisement < Transfer-Encoding: chunked < Connection: keep-alive < Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT < Pragma: no-cache < Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate < { [data not shown]

But with git (without the http.proxy configuration in .gitconfig):

GIT_TRACE=1 GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git clone
http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
trace: built-in: git 'clone' 'http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git'
Cloning into 'git'...
trace: run_command: 'git-remote-http' 'origin'
'http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git'
* Couldn't find host git.kernel.org in the .netrc file, using defaults
* About to connect() to proxy 127.0.0.1 port 1080
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... * connected
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 1080

> GET http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1

User-Agent: git/1.8.1.5
Host: git.kernel.org
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: no-cache

* Empty reply from server
* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
error: Empty reply from server while accessing
http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
fatal: HTTP request failed

Regards, Yves