# how to clone from github behindd a proxy? 2 messages from 2010-01-20 to 2010-01-21. Participants: Tim Michelsen, Tay Ray Chuan. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22302 ## Tim Michelsen, 2010-01-20 09:29 Subject: how to clone from github behindd a proxy? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20100120T102323-689%40post.gmane.org ``` Hello, I tried to clone from behind a proxy firewall. It doesn't work. How shall I improve? set GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git config --global http.proxy proxy.example.com:8000 git clone http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas Initialized empty Git repository in D:\sourcecode/traitsbackendpyjamas/.git/ * Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults * About to connect() to proxy proxy.example.com on port 8000 (#0) * Trying 149.233.100.7... * Connected to proxy.example.com (149.233.100.7) port 8000 (#0) GET http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas/info/refs HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: git/1.6.5.1.1366.g8ed9 Host: github.com Accept: */* Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive Pragma: no-cache * The requested URL returned error: 404 * Closing connection #0 fatal: http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server? Thanks in advance, Timmie ``` ## Tay Ray Chuan, 2010-01-21 00:54 Subject: Re: how to clone from github behindd a proxy? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/be6fef0d1001201654s78ba4e95r59754dd2645f587%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Tim Michelsen wrote: > git clone http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas > Initialized empty Git repository in D:\sourcecode/traitsbackendpyjamas/.git/ > * Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults > * About to connect() to proxy proxy.example.com on port 8000 (#0) > *   Trying 149.233.100.7... * Connected to proxy.example.com (149.233.100.7) > port 8000 (#0) >  GET http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas/info/refs HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: git/1.6.5.1.1366.g8ed9 > Host: github.com > Accept: */* > Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive > Pragma: no-cache > > * The requested URL returned error: 404 > * Closing connection #0 > fatal: http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas/info/refs not found: did you > run git update-server-info on the server? this isn't a problem with your proxy - git connects to your proxy fine. The problem is that the info/refs file isn't found at the repo URL you specified. I think for github repos, you need to put a ".git" behind the url, so you should try cloning from http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas.git instead. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan ```