How do I clone a repository when I'm behind a proxy?

Question

There's an option http_proxy which should allow access through proxy, but it's not clear whether this should be in the command line, .hgrc or some global variable.

I tried it in the command line:

hg --config=http_proxy.host=_proxy server_

but I still get a Connection timed out error.

Solution 1

It's actually an environment variable, so try

http_proxy=http://proxy_server:4242 hg ...

You should replace 4242 with whatever port your proxy is running on.

Solution 2

I can successfully use the following command:

hg clone <TheURl> <Optional Folder Name> --config http_proxy.host=<proxy URL>

And obviously by replacing any <> instances with the relevant details.

Solution 3

You can setup proxy authentication in .hgrc file.

It store in ~/.hgrc. Here is an example.

[http_proxy]
host=hostname:port
user=username
passwd=password

Note: I currently use SourceTree app on Mac OSX.

Comments

[Brent Bradburn]

May also need export: export http_proxy=...

[Chris Jones]

http_proxy also works with https URLs. (Some other programs requires a separate https_proxy environment variable; Hg doesn't.)

[Dmitry Ilukhin]

It says:hg: --config could not be shortened

[Adam Houldsworth]

@DmitryIlukhin I guess a lot can happen in 3 years, don't use Mercurial anymore so I'm not sure if the command has changed.

[Dmitry Ilukhin]

Worked in this format (note there is no "=" after "--config"): hg pull -u https://hgserver.com/hg/project --config http_proxy.host=192.168.0.249:8080

[Mir-Ismaili]

In Windows machines, the file is ~/mercurial.ini.

[StayOnTarget]

I confirm the = is not needed - can someone with higher rep make the single-char edit to fix that please?

[Adam Houldsworth]

@DaveInCaz Done :-)

[StayOnTarget]

@AdamHouldsworth :)