Supporting http in installer

[Dmitry Kakurin]

I can see that supporting http transport causes a lot of headaches.
Can we drop it?
I can see that there is core.gitproxy option that is supposed to help
penetrating firewalls while using git: transport.

Could someone (who has git: broken otherwise) experiment with
core.gitproxy and see if it works?

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- Dmitry

[Mike Pape]

This command just tells git to use command x when trying to connect.
I think it would still require that the user can somehow get through
the firewall. The only way I get through my work firewall is by
tunneling through using an ssh server (running on a different port
than normal ssh) I have set up at home. I don't know that this is a
reasonable expectation for all users. Is there another way to do
this?

[Dmitry Kakurin]

I have looked at examples of using proxycmd and it looks like what we want.
I've seen example of using it with HTTP proxy, something like

echo "CONNECT host:port HTTP/1.1";cat | socket myproxyserver

I'm sure it could be combined with any other proxy as well.
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- Dmitry