On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:10:38AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nelson Benitez Leon <nelsonjesus.benitez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > CuRL already reads it, but if $http_proxy has username but no password > > curl will not ask you for the password.. so we read it ourselves to > > detect that and ask for the password. > > Please stop the double-dot. Also your capitalization for cURL is screwed > up. > > More importantly, please describe what happens after "will not ask". > "will not ask you for the password and the connection fails"? > "will not ask you for the password and the gives an error message saying > 'authentication failure'"? When we need to authenticate for the destination webserver, we detect an HTTP 401, _then_ ask for the credentials, and retry the request. I'm curious what the error condition is for the authentication failure, and if we can do the same here (from a brief skim of rfc2616, it looks like it should be a 407, but I do not even have a proxy set up to try). -Peff -- 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