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From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems Fetching from HTTP?
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:12:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <k2tc115fd3c1004011112y38265ec1h53c8e297b47983b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100401162907.GA3783@inner.home.ulmdo.de>

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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/

Strange.  I suppose they reconfigured the firewall recently as I never
had to set that before and I've tracked git through http for over a
year.  I ended up setting `http.proxy` in ~/.gitconfig.

Thanks!

-- 

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Timmy V.

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-01 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-01 15:03 Problems Fetching from HTTP? Tim Visher
2010-04-01 16:29 ` Andreas Krey
2010-04-01 18:12   ` Tim Visher [this message]

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