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

From: Yves Blusseau <yves.blusseau@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 6, 2013, 09:21 UTC
Message-ID: <CABmRxH2CGTxFaGufSMgUqhrSTZPvFBHoEnP8-p5HhkU4kszJPw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130306082110.GA31638@sigill.intra.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.

Thanks Jeff but it's not working. I use git 1.8.15 My socks proxy listen on my localhost at port 1080 so I do: git config --global http.proxy 'socks://127.0.0.1:1080'

But when i try to talk with a git server with http protocol i have:

GIT_TRACE=1 GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git ls-remote http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

trace: built-in: git 'ls-remote' 'http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git'
trace: run_command: 'git-remote-http'
'http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git'
'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

As you can see git connect to my socks proxy (Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 1080) but seems to send the http request directly instead of a socks command. So it does'nt work :(

Regards, Yves