Re: manual http authorization (no netrc)

Tay Ray Chuan [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:20 AM, tom fogal [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I'm getting authorization errors when I lack a .netrc for an
http-based server. Specifically:

=A0tf@shigeru tmp $ git clone http://myhost:port/git/io.git
=A0Cloning into io...
=A0Username:
=A0Password:
=A0error: The requested URL returned error: 401 (curl_result =3D 22, http=
_code =3D

[snip]

hmm, can you try passing username and password in this manner

  http://<user>:<pwd>@server:port/

?

Yes.  That worked!  Though it was very quiet; the only message I
got was "Cloning into io..."; no "remote:" messages or "Receiving "
messages.  That's neither here nor there, though.

Also, does your username/password contain special, non-alphanumeric
characters? I remember there was a change to how we handled those
some time ago.

Nope, both would encode fine in 7bit ascii.

Thanks much for the workaround,

-tom