From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Krey Subject: Re: Problems Fetching from HTTP? Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:29:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20100401162907.GA3783@inner.home.ulmdo.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List To: Tim Visher X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 01 18:29:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxNGj-0006QL-2q for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:29:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757550Ab0DAQ3O (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:29:14 -0400 Received: from continuum.iocl.org ([213.146.114.200]:62347 "EHLO continuum.iocl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757534Ab0DAQ3N (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:29:13 -0400 Received: (from krey@localhost) by continuum.iocl.org (8.11.3/8.9.3) id o31GT7805417; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:29:07 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-message-flag: What did you expect to see here? Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:03:20 +0000, Tim Visher wrote: ... > error: Failed connect to git.kernel.org:80; Connection refused > while accessing http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs > > fatal: HTTP request failed > > What could be going on here? I can't pull from `git://` as I'm behind > a firewall. It pretty much looks like the firewall doesn't let you directly access HTTP as well. You may need to use your proxy, and you (seem to) need to set the environment variable 'http_proxy="http://10.0.0.1:3128"' to point to your proxy. Google will take you from there, like http://rip747.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/git-clone-over-http-who-knew/ Andreas