On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 05:51, Augie Fackler <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dulwich-users > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dulwich-users > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > >> > >
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