Comments on: Using git behind a proxy

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:49:46 +0000

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Susan

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By: Berend De Schouwer

Berend De Schouwer — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:45:00 +0000

The socks client in some distros (dante-client in Ubuntu) already comes with a useful little command called socksify(1)

socksify git checkout ….

works with passwords, etc. like sudo(8). No need to write custom scripts or anything.

By: Nirbheek Chauhan

Nirbheek Chauhan — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:15:32 +0000

Here’s the method I use(d) for connecting to git servers via an http proxy which has the CONNECT method enabled:

Install the “connect”[1] program, then use the following script as the “proxy-wrapper”: http://is.gd/1F44h

Then, just set the http_proxy env variable (with authentication or whatever), and this should Just Work.

1. http://www.meadowy.org/~gotoh/projects/connect/

By: juanje

juanje — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:53:02 +0000

Yes, I guess you can, but when I was looking for a solution I couldn’t find it. I googled it and nothing. Some reference to gitproxy, but nothing about how this was working.

I didn’t see in that moment in the git’s documentation, but I guess it’s not just its fault…

Tomorrow I’ll try using directly the git configuration instead of the env variables. At least I’ll try… you know, with git nothing is easy…. (sorry, I couldn’t resit )

Thanks for the tip

By: Paul Collins

Paul Collins — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:36:58 +0000

You can also set this up globally or per-repository by using “git config” to adjust “core.gitproxy”.

By: Your tips and tutorial

Your tips and tutorial — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:02:31 +0000

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By: juanje

juanje — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:44:01 +0000

As I said, you need to install the openbsd nectat, the standard one won’t work. I use Guadalinex v6 (based in Ubuntu Jaunty) and it works perfect, but you need to install the package ‘netcat-openbsd’.

Probably you have instaled the package ‘netcat’, which is a dummy package and actually will install you ‘netcat-traditional’. This one hasn’t support for socks proxies.

I hope this help you up

By: Nagappan Alagappan

Nagappan Alagappan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:33:00 +0000

I even tried changing the option in proxy-wrapper

nc ${PROXY_IP} ${PROXY_PORT} $*

That doesn’t help.

Anyways, thanks for sharing the info.

Thanks

By: Nagappan Alagappan

Nagappan Alagappan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:26:25 +0000

I tried this to retrieve LDTP source code from our proxy setup, it doesn’t work. Not sure, where the issue is.

git clone ssh://nagappan@git.freedesktop.org/git/ldtp/ldtp.git

I have installed netcat. Our company uses Squid proxy server. I tried this on Ubuntu 9.04. After making the above mentioned changes, I have also sourced bashrc (. ~/.bashrc)

When I tried anonymous user

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/ldtp/ldtp.git

I get the following error message

Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/ldtp/.git/
nc: invalid option — ‘x’
nc -h for help
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Maybe the setup you have provide will just work for anonymous user !?!

Thanks

By: juanje

juanje — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:18:37 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t say that I use a proxy we had set up with a ssh and without user or password. It is in our internal net and just for our connections.

With netcat you can pass an username, but I’m not sure about the pass. It should be (otherwise it won’t make any sense…). Try the help of netcat. I saw this:

nc -P${USER} -x${PROXY_IP}:${PROXY_PORT} -X5 $*

Another option is to try with tsocks or similar tool instead of netcat. I guess it will work.