GitHub - failed to connect to github 443 windows/

Question

Q - I intalled git to get the latest version of Angular. When i tried called

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Mine was fixed by just using this command :-

      >git config --global http.proxy XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:ZZ

where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the proxy server address and ZZ is the port number of the proxy server.

There was no need to specify any username or password in my case.

Answer 3

(Hope this answer help someone like me.)

The same problem happened to me in Windows using git for windows.

I set proxy setting as usual:

git config --global http.proxy http://username:[e-mail]:port

In my situation, the username is email, so it has a @ sign. After encode the @ sign with %40 in username, the problem is resolved.

So, encode the special characters not only in password, but also in username. (Refer to the comments of this answer)

Answer 4

Was getting the same error in SourceTree,go to Tools>Options>Network and check Add proxy server configuration to Git/Mercurial if you had already set the proxy settings

Answer 5

In Visual Studio go to

Tools/NuGet Package Manager / Package Manager Console

Type git config --global http.proxy http://xxx.xxxx.xxxx:Port

Answer 6

On Windows 7 setting the proxy to global config will resolve this issue

git config --global http.proxy http://user:password@proxy_addr:port

but the problem here is your password will not be encrypted.. Hopefully that should not be much problem as most of time you will be sole owner of your PC.