behind proxy server

[John Arbash Meinel]

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TK Soh wrote:
> Is there a quick HOWTO on how I can branch a remote repo via http if I
> am behind a proxy server? FYI, the proxy server require user
> authentication. Thanks.
> 
> 

Generally you can set the environment variable "export http_proxy=XXXX".
I'm not 100% clear on how to handle proxy authentication. It might work to do
"http_proxy=http://user:password@host/path".

There is an on-going bug thread on this, though.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244448

John
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