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

> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 10:21:42AM +0100, Yves Blusseau wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Thanks Jeff but it's not working.
>
> Hmm. I just double-checked, and it works for me.
>
>> I use git 1.8.15
>
> I assume you mean 1.8.1.5 here.

>
>> My socks proxy listen on my localhost at port 1080 so I do:
>> git config --global http.proxy  'socks://127.0.0.1:1080'
>
> That looks right to me.
>
>> But when i try to talk with a git server with http protocol i have:
>> [...]
>> * 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
>> [...]
>> * Empty reply from server
>
> If I set up a simple socks proxy with ssh, like:
>
>   ssh -v -D 1080 my-ssh-host

>
> and run the same command, I get:
>
>   * About to connect() to proxy localhost port 1080 (#0)
>   *   Trying 127.0.0.1...
>   * SOCKS4 request granted.
>   * Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 1080 (#0)
>   > GET /pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
>   [...]
>   < HTTP/1.1 200 OK

>
> and it works. It does look like curl is treating localhost:1080 as a
> regular http proxy. What version of libcurl do you have? Is there
> anything in your environment that might be causing it to override the
> configured proxy setting (e.g., an http_proxy or https_proxy environment
> variable)?