behind proxy server

[TK Soh]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:47 PM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
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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.
>>
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> 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".

It didn't work when I tried it today, setting http_proxy. I was doing
in Windows' cmd window with "set http_proxy=...." though. Not sure if
that's the right thing to do.

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

Bug report? Meaning there's some issue with handling of proxy?

> John
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