[boost] raw.github.com access from behind firewall

Subject: [boost] raw.github.com access from behind firewall
From: Belcourt, Kenneth (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-22 15:59:39

Hi,

When I try to run github hosted regression tests with run.py, access to raw.github.com times out even though it seems to be using the specified our proxy server.

# Running regressions in /scratch/modular-boost...
# Creating regression scripts at /scratch/modular-boost/tools_regression_src...
# Dowloading regression scripts from https://raw.github.com/boostorg/boost/develop/tools/regression/src...
--- http://wwwproxy.sandia.gov:80

What's interesting is that I'm able to clone from github.com just fine, as you can see here.

-bash-4.1$ git clone  https://github.com/boostorg/boost
Initialized empty Git repository in /scratch/modular-boost/boost/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 180556, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (68339/68339), done.
remote: Total 180556 (delta 111934), reused 180501 (delta 111879)
Receiving objects: 100% (180556/180556), 68.21 MiB | 10.23 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (111934/111934), done.

But we're not able to clone from raw.

-bash-4.1$ git clone  https://raw.github.com/boostorg/boost
Initialized empty Git repository in /scratch/modular-boost/boost/.git/
error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://raw.github.com/boostorg/boost/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed

which means this clone (https://raw.github.com/boostorg/boost/develop/tools/regression/src) will fail.  Is this a known issue and / or is there a workaround for this?  This is on RHE Linux with git 1.8.5.1.

-- Noel Belcourt