Github behind proxy

[mikat]

Hey guys,

 

I'm trying to publish my repo to my github account, but it gives me this error:

This does not happen when i'm at home, so i'm pretty sure it's my school's proxy server, how do I fix this?

my plan is to go to the sysadmin and ask him to unblock this, but i don't know which ports or websites the github client needs, since github.com works just fine.

 

so which ports and websites does the github client for mac use? (OSX 10.10)

 

-mikat

[maremp]

Github for Mac is not doing anything fancy and it doesn't require any special ports. It's running git commands in the background and the ports for those depend on the Git protocol. The answer to your question is port 9418 (TCP only) and if you want to know more, check the link. 

[mikat]

2 hours ago, maremp said:

Github for Mac is not doing anything fancy and it doesn't require any special ports. It's running git commands in the background and the ports for those depend on the Git protocol. The answer to your question is port 9418 (TCP only) and if you want to know more, check the link. 

update:

i've tried committing using the terminal, and that works, thanks for your help

so Github for Mac does something that the proxy doesn't like

[mikat]

@maremp

now i've got this:

should i go to my sysadmin?

[maremp]

It says "Git error". That's nothing that the client does wrong. The client doesn't execute the commands like you would from the terminal, it might use a different user and/or config. Are you sure you have configured your client properly? 

You might also want to try and post this question on stack overflow, there are more people who will know how to help you, so you can resolve this problem faster. 

[mikat]

7 minutes ago, maremp said:

It says "Git error". That's nothing that the client does wrong. The client doesn't execute the commands like you would from the terminal, it might use a different user and/or config. Are you sure you have configured your client properly? 

You might also want to try and post this question on stack overflow, there are more people who will know how to help you, so you can resolve this problem faster. 

hmm

on my mac i've set the proxy, but i had to use this command:

 

git config --global http.proxy http://serverhere:8080

to solve my problem, thanks for helping me

[maremp]

Glad you can solve it. I wanted to offer you this same solution from a github help page, but I wasn't sure it would work for you, since it requires both username and password and I wasn't sure that would work for you.

Happy hacking  

[mikat]

1 minute ago, maremp said:

Glad you can solve it. I wanted to offer you this same solution from a github help page, but I wasn't sure it would work for you, since it requires both username and password and I wasn't sure that would work for you.

Happy hacking  

our proxy server doesn't use authentication, since it's only used to block websites and such