Re: Using socks proxy with git for http(s) transport

2013/3/6 Jeff King [off-list ref]:

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 10:21:42AM +0100, Yves Blusseau wrote:

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Try:

  git config --global http.proxy 'socks://yourhost:port'

That will enable it for all git repositories on your machine. Git should
also respect any environment variables that curl handles (because we use
libcurl under the hood), if you prefer to set it up that way. See "man
curl" for details.

Thanks Jeff but it's not working.

Hmm. I just double-checked, and it works for me.

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I use git 1.8.15

I assume you mean 1.8.1.5 here.

Yes it's 1.8.15 sorry for the mistake

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My socks proxy listen on my localhost at port 1080 so I do:
git config --global http.proxy  'socks://127.0.0.1:1080'

That looks right to me.

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But when i try to talk with a git server with http protocol i have:
[...]
* About to connect() to proxy 127.0.0.1 port 1080
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... * connected
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 1080

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GET http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1

[...]
* Empty reply from server

If I set up a simple socks proxy with ssh, like:

  ssh -v -D 1080 my-ssh-host

My socks proxy is also a socks proxy with ssh

and run the same command, I get:

  * About to connect() to proxy localhost port 1080 (#0)
  *   Trying 127.0.0.1...
  * SOCKS4 request granted.
  * Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 1080 (#0)
  > GET /pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
  [...]
  < HTTP/1.1 200 OK

You have a (#0) in the log that i have when using curl directly with
the socks proxy

and it works. It does look like curl is treating localhost:1080 as a
regular http proxy. What version of libcurl do you have? Is there
anything in your environment that might be causing it to override the
configured proxy setting (e.g., an http_proxy or https_proxy environment
variable)?

I have try with an old version of curl: 7.15.5 and with the latest in
development curl 7.29.1-DEV.
But it seem that git-remote-http is compile with the old one.

I have no http/proxy environment variables