Git through proxy….
June 4th, 2009
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To access the Android code from my laptop at work I need to go through a proxy. I had a hard time finding info on how to use git with a proxy, but then I found this link detailing a script that uses socat to get through a proxy. The sample script they provided did half of the work of connecting to the proxy. However, it didn’t handle the authentication part. Fortunately, socat has a few more tricks up its sleeve and adding a proxyauth option handles this case as well. Â Full script can be found below:
#!/bin/sh # Use socat to proxy git through an HTTP CONNECT firewall. # Useful if you are trying to clone git:// from inside a company. # Requires that the proxy allows CONNECT to port 9418. # # Save this file as gitproxy somewhere in your path (e.g., ~/bin) and then run # chmod +x gitproxy # git config --global core.gitproxy gitproxy # Configuration. Common proxy ports are 3128, 8123, 8000. PROXY=yourproxy PROXYPORT=8080 PROXY_AUTH=username:password exec socat STDIO PROXY:$PROXY:$1:$2,proxyport=$PROXYPORT,proxyauth=$PROXY_AUTH
Be aware that your proxy must allow outbound connections to port 9418! If not, this script will not work
