Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] Re: raw.github.com access from behind firewall

Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] Re: raw.github.com access from behind firewall
From: Belcourt, Kenneth (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-22 16:46:18

On Jan 22, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:

> Does a regular wget
> https://raw.github.com/boostorg/boost/develop/tools/regression/src/regression.pywork?
> Does it work with the proxy or without the proxy?

Unfortunately no, neither works.

> Note.. You can't use git tools with the raw URLs. They are meant to just
> read the content of files directly. But you should be able to use web tools
> (wget and browsers) with them.

Okay, thanks for the info.

> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth <kbelco_at_[hidden]>wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
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