Re: [lmi] Anonymous git checkout failure

[Murphy, Kimberly]

Vadim Zeitlin wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 12:56:01 +0000 "Murphy, Kimberly"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> MK> Do my results with GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 offer any indication as to what
> may
> MK> be going on?
> 
>  Comparing them with my own results, I see a crucial difference:
> 
> MK> [0]$GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git clone
> http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/r/lmi.git
> MK> Cloning into 'lmi'...
> MK> * STATE: INIT => CONNECT handle 0x80081d88; line 1103 (connection #-
> 5000)
> MK> * Couldn't find host git.savannah.nongnu.org in the .netrc file;
> using defaults
> MK> * Added connection 0. The cache now contains 1 members
> MK> *   Trying 208.118.235.72...
> MK> * STATE: CONNECT => WAITCONNECT handle 0x80081d88; line 1156
> (connection #0)
> MK> * Connected to git.savannah.nongnu.org (208.118.235.72) port 80 (#0)
> MK> * STATE: WAITCONNECT => SENDPROTOCONNECT handle 0x80081d88; line 1253
> (connection #0)
> MK> * STATE: SENDPROTOCONNECT => DO handle 0x80081d88; line 1271
> (connection #0)
> MK> > GET /r/lmi.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
> MK> Host: git.savannah.nongnu.org
> MK> User-Agent: git/2.7.0
> MK> Accept: */*
> MK> Accept-Encoding: gzip
> MK> Pragma: no-cache
> MK>
> MK> * STATE: DO => DO_DONE handle 0x80081d88; line 1350 (connection #0)
> MK> * STATE: DO_DONE => WAITPERFORM handle 0x80081d88; line 1477
> (connection #0)
> MK> * STATE: WAITPERFORM => PERFORM handle 0x80081d88; line 1487
> (connection #0)
> MK> * HTTP 1.1 or later with persistent connection, pipelining supported
> MK> < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> 
>  Instead of getting the 200 reply here, I get the following:
> 
> < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
> < Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 13:00:58 GMT
> * Server Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) is not blacklisted
> < Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)
> < Location: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/lmi.git/info/refs?service=git-
> upload-pack
> < Content-Length: 368
> < Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
> 
>  i.e. the server redirects me to the correct page and then everything
> proceeds correctly instead of exiting with an error as it does in your
> case.
> 
>  I strongly suspect that in your case a proxy sitting between you and the
> external network mangles this redirect somehow. Unfortunately it's not
> really clear what to do about it, all I can suggest is trying to access
> http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/r/lmi.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-
> pack
> from your browser (or, if you prefer, using curl from command line) as it
> should show you the body of the returned document which might contain
> some
> clues about what is going on. 

>From my browser, I can 'Open' or 'Save' the refs from 
git.savannah.nongnu.org. I selected to save the file. Opening the file 
I find four lines:

001e# service=git-upload-pack
000000a339d4821197e50b043331320b9a147c1e869a6cf8 HEAD multi_ack thin-pack 
side-band side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow no-progress include-tag 
multi_ack_detailed no-done
003f39d4821197e50b043331320b9a147c1e869a6cf8 refs/heads/master
0000

> But most likely the only way to make this
> work would be to ask your IT/network administrator to stop doing whatever
> they do that breaks connectivity.

Easier said than done. 

>  BTW, just to check if this problem also appears with the other sites,
> could you please try cloning https://github.com/vadz/lmi.git? If this
> works, perhaps it could be a (temporary?) workaround...

An earlier attempt was unsuccessful since the company was experiencing 
internet problems. I just tried cloning https://github.com/vadz/lmi.git 
-- and it was successful. 

Just for the record, cloning http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/r/lmi.git 
is still not working.






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