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[Augie Fackler <durin42@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:30 AM, David Borowitz wrote:

> 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.

Once you issue a CONNECT you seriously just treat it like a vanilla socket.

> 
> 
>>> 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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