Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:20 AM, tom fogal <tfogal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html