[ovs-discuss] Cannot clone repo

[Iben Rodriguez]

Are you on comcast at home?

We've seen this type of behavior when a large ISP or enterprise uses a
transparent http proxy to manage outbound web traffic. HTTPS and other
non-http protocols are often configured to bypass the proxy server
providing some performance benefit.

Google wrote about some of the performance myths of https here:
http://www.ibenit.com/imperialviolet-overclocking-ssl-https-at-goog


On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Deepak Garg <deepakgarg.iitg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes, it took some time but did clone well. Thanks everyone, its working
> for me.
>
> Also if possible, this issue might be investigated into:
> a. its very slow
> b. it didn't show any progress/info while cloning
> With github.com my experience with https and git protocols have almost
> been the same (using my Home network)
>
> Cheers,
> Deepak
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>
> wrote:
> > Is there a reason that's preferable to you?  Obviously there's some
> additional overhead using https, and we'd have to get the certificates
> straightened out. We could look into it, though.
> >
> > Ben pointed out off-list there is a different git-over-http protocol
> that we could look at adding if there's sufficient interest.
> >
> > --Justin
> >
> >
> > On Mar 17, 2012, at 9:34 AM, "Iben Rodriguez" <iben.rodriguez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> What about https?
> >>
> >> Can we open the repo up to https protocol?
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Iben Rodriguez
> >>
> >>
> >> ------Original Message------
> >> From: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> >> To: "Justin Pettit" <jpettit at nicira.com>
> >> Cc: <discuss at openvswitch.org>
> >> Date: Saturday, March 17, 2012 9:11:01 AM GMT-0700
> >> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Cannot clone repo
> >>
> >> It works fine for me.  It's slow; Git over HTTP is always slow.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:47:23AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> >>> I just tried it and had the same problem with HTTP, but the git
> >>> protocol worked fine..  I'll have our IT group take a look.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the report.
> >>>
> >>> --Justin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mar 17, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Deepak Garg wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> HI,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am not able to clone the ovs repo from
> http://openvswitch.org/git/openvswitch
> >>>> On trying the git stops at the step:
> >>>> "Cloning into openvswitch..."
> >>>> Even the directory is not created.
> >>>>
> >>>> I cannot use the git:// protocol because I am behind the corporate
> firewall.
> >>>> Is anyone else facing the same issue ?
> >>>> Can I copy the repo from somewhere else ?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Deepak Garg,
> >>>> Data Center and Cloud Div,
> >>>> Citrix R&D India
> >>>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>> discuss at openvswitch.org
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