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Re: Commit 5841520b makes it impossible to connect to github from behind my company's firewall.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 20, 2015, 16:11 UTC
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Enrique Tobis <Enrique.Tobis@twosigma.com> writes:
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> Hey!
>
> I'm really sorry to hear that.
>
> That change should enable more forms of authentication with your
> proxy, but it does cause libcurl to choose the one it finds most
> secure, according to the docs
> (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.html) What kinds of
> authentication does your proxy use?

Good line of thought. The answer would reveal what non-working authentication form the proxy claims to support is chosen because libcurl considers more secure than the one the user wants to use. I'd imagine that the next step after that would be to make the list of authentication forms configurable so that the user can say "hey my proxy claims to support this one but it does not work" to skip it?

That sounds like a similar approach as what we did for SSL ciphers in f6f2a9e4 (http: add support for specifying an SSL cipher list, 2015-05-08) where some people had problems with certain cipher the server/client claimed to support when it was in fact broken.

Thanks.
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Message 6 of 11 in “Commit 5841520b makes it impossible to connect to github from behind my company's firewall.”
  1. Johan LaenenOct 20, 2015
  2. Matthieu MoyOct 20, 2015
  3. Enrique TobisOct 20, 2015
  4. Johan LaenenOct 20, 2015
  5. Johan LaenenOct 20, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 20, 2015
  7. Enrique TobisOct 20, 2015
  8. Johan LaenenOct 21, 2015
  9. Johan LaenenOct 21, 2015
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2015
  11. Enrique TobisOct 21, 2015

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