Problems Fetching from HTTP?

Hello Everyone,

I recently seem to have developed problems fetching from
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git.  The error is simply:

    error: Failed connect to www.kernel.org:80; Connection refused
while accessing http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs

    fatal: HTTP request failed

I looked around and discovered that perhaps the URL had changed via
[git.kernel.org][] so I went ahead and changed the URL and still get
the error.

    error: Failed connect to git.kernel.org:80; Connection refused
while accessing http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs

    fatal: HTTP request failed

What could be going on here?  I can't pull from `git://` as I'm behind
a firewall.

Thanks in advance!

-- 

In Christ,

Timmy V.

http://burningones.com/
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On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:03:20 +0000, Tim Visher wrote:
...

    error: Failed connect to git.kernel.org:80; Connection refused
while accessing http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs

    fatal: HTTP request failed

What could be going on here?  I can't pull from `git://` as I'm behind
a firewall.

It pretty much looks like the firewall doesn't let you directly access
HTTP as well. You may need to use your proxy, and you (seem to) need to
set the environment variable 'http_proxy="http://10.0.0.1:3128"' to
point to your proxy. Google will take you from there, like
http://rip747.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/git-clone-over-http-who-knew/

Andreas

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Andreas Krey [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:03:20 +0000, Tim Visher wrote:
...

quoted

    error: Failed connect to git.kernel.org:80; Connection refused
while accessing http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs

    fatal: HTTP request failed

What could be going on here?  I can't pull from `git://` as I'm behind
a firewall.

It pretty much looks like the firewall doesn't let you directly access
HTTP as well. You may need to use your proxy, and you (seem to) need to
set the environment variable 'http_proxy="http://10.0.0.1:3128"' to
point to your proxy. Google will take you from there, like
http://rip747.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/git-clone-over-http-who-knew/

Strange.  I suppose they reconfigured the firewall recently as I never
had to set that before and I've tracked git through http for over a
year.  I ended up setting `http.proxy` in ~/.gitconfig.

Thanks!

-- 

In Christ,

Timmy V.

http://burningones.com/
http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail