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[Augie Fackler <durin42@xxxxxxxxx>]

(-hg-git)
On Sep 9, 2010, at 11:29 AM, David Borowitz wrote:

> You know the dulwich client code as well as anyone here, Augie ;)
> 
> http_proxy support is a good idea, but it's slightly nontrivial as you'd be
> tunneling the git TCP protocol, not HTTP, through the HTTP proxy. I haven't
> thought through how well that would work, but I'm sure other git people
> have, and a quick search suggests that it's at least possible:
> http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/how-to-use-the-git-protocol-through-a-http-connect-proxy/

Ah, right. I just assumed this user wanted to use an http protocol. Even so, it's not all that hard to tunnel an arbitrary protocol through an http proxy - you issue the CONNECT verb and if the proxy server doesn't refuse (which it really *should* if it's not to port 443) you're golden and can treat it like a normal socket from there.

> Another related feature that's been in the back of my mind for a while is
> smart HTTP client support, where using a proxy should be more
> straightforward :)
> 
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 08:02, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 09:42 -0500, Augie Fackler wrote:
>>> (+dulwich-users)
>>> 
>>> On Sep 9, 2010, at 4:15 AM, Frog Brave wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I am trying to use hg-git to get access to some public git repos. hg
>>>> clone command does not work (I get a message about the absence of an
>>>> answer from the other host) and I suppose the problem is I am behind a
>>>> proxy.
>>>> 
>>>> I tried to set http_proxy environment variable and it still did not
>>>> work. Is there any way to work with hg-git from behind a proxy? Can I
>>>> somehow get better diagnostics from hg-git?
>>> 
>>> I'm a little surprised that didn't work. Maybe the dulwich folks
>>> (cc'ed) know?
>>> 
>>> Jelmer, should I put together a patch to respect http_proxy, or should
>>> it already work?
>> dulwich doesn't have any specific proxy support at the moment, patches
>> are more than welcome.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Jelmer
>> 
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