From: tom fogal <tfogal@sci.utah.edu>
To: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: manual http authorization (no netrc)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:49:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <auto-000024264576@sci.utah.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:35:16 +0800." <AANLkTik2QjOOoOcx0E7NeYEbs3YnLFPbG3x5J2RUFmRU@mail.gmail.com>
Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:20 AM, tom fogal <tfogal@sci.utah.edu> wrote:
> > I'm getting authorization errors when I lack a .netrc for an
> > http-based server. Specifically:
> >
> > =A0tf@shigeru tmp $ git clone http://myhost:port/git/io.git
> > =A0Cloning into io...
> > =A0Username:
> > =A0Password:
> > =A0error: The requested URL returned error: 401 (curl_result =3D 22, http=
> > _code =3D
[snip]
> hmm, can you try passing username and password in this manner
>
> http://<user>:<pwd>@server:port/
>
> ?
Yes. That worked! Though it was very quiet; the only message I
got was "Cloning into io..."; no "remote:" messages or "Receiving "
messages. That's neither here nor there, though.
> Also, does your username/password contain special, non-alphanumeric
> characters? I remember there was a change to how we handled those
> some time ago.
Nope, both would encode fine in 7bit ascii.
Thanks much for the workaround,
-tom
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2011-01-06 17:20 manual http authorization (no netrc) tom fogal
2011-01-09 16:35 ` Tay Ray Chuan
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