On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Dirk Behme wrote:

> With git the issue is now that it uses a combination of curl in script files
> _and_ libcurl in compiled source code. Is there any possibility to tell
> command line curl _and_ libcurl proxy & port & user ( & passwd) in a common
> way?

Yes, by passing the proxy name (with user + password) using the environment
variable 'http_proxy'.

> I asked on git mailing list, and they told me that curl in git scripts and
> libcurl in executables will evaluate .netrc. But as I understand it, with
> .netrc it isn't possible to specify proxy settings like above?

Correct, .netrc is an old thing used for ftp and afaik there are no "standard"
keywords for proxy or proxy authentication and thus curl and libcurl don't
support any such.

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