GitHub - failed to connect to github 443 windows/ Failed to connect to gitHub - No Error

Q - I installed git to get the latest version of Angular. When I tried to run

git clone https://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat.git

I got failed to connect to github 443 error

I even tried

git clone git://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat.git

That gave me failed to connect no error message.

I am behind my company firewall. I can not see my proxy details when I go to control panel->Internet Options -> connections -> LAN setting. IT guys are not sharing proxy information with me. I do not know what to do ??

I finally managed to do it. I will update the procedure that I had taken in order to Just wanted to compile all the steps that I did to get it to work

Solution 1:

Well I did following steps

1. Google the error

2. Got to SO Links(here, here) which suggested the same thing, that I have to update the Git Config for proxy setting

3. Damn, can not see proxy information from control panel. IT guys must have hidden it. I can not even change the setting to not to use proxy.

4. Found this wonderful tutorial of finding which proxy your are connected to

5. Updated the http.proxy key in git config by following command

   git config --global http.proxy http[s]://userName:password@proxyaddress:port
   

6. Error - "could not resolve proxy some@proxyaddress:port". It turned out my password had a @ symbol in it.

7. Encode @ in your password to %40, because git splits the proxy setting by @

8. If your userName is a email address, which has @, also encode it to %40. (see this answer)

    git config --global http.proxy http[s]://userName(encoded):password(encoded)@proxyaddress:port
   

Baam! It worked!

Note - I just wanted to answer this question for souls like me, who would come looking for answer on SO :D

Solution 2:

If your git was already set to something and you only copied that folder to some other location, simply run:

git config --global http.proxy ""

And git will set itself straight, after what, you can pull again :)

Solution 3:

If your country or working environment blocks sites like Github.

Then you can build a proxy, e.g. use xxnet, which is free & based on Google's GAE, and available for Windows / Linux / Mac.

Then set proxy address for git, e.g:

git config --global http.proxy 127.0.0.1:8087