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authorLibravatar Nelson Benitez Leon <nelsonjesus.benitez@seap.minhap.es>2012-03-02 14:55:57 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-03-02 14:40:14 -0800
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parentUpdate draft release notes to 1.7.10 (diff)
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http: support proxies that require authentication
When the proxy server specified by the http.proxy configuration or the http_proxy environment variable requires authentication, git failed to connect to the proxy, because we did not configure the cURL handle with CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH. When a proxy is in use, and you tell git that the proxy requires authentication by having username in the http.proxy configuration, an extra request needs to be made to the proxy to find out what authentication method it supports, as this patch uses CURLAUTH_ANY to let the library pick the most secure method supported by the proxy server. The extra round-trip adds extra latency, but relieves the user from the burden to configure a specific authentication method. If it becomes problem, a later patch could add a configuration option to specify what method to use, but let's start simple for the time being. Signed-off-by: Nelson Benitez Leon <nbenitezl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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