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[David Borowitz <dborowitz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 05:51, Augie Fackler <durin42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> (-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.


Well, the CONNECT is what makes it slightly nontrivial--but still probably
not a huge pain. The part I haven't thought through is what the
request/response nature of HTTP would do to the performance of git protocol
negotiation, which assumes a two-way stream.


> > 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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