How to make proxy server setting take effect for tortoisehg in Windows?

Question

I set the proxy server in 'global settings' for my tortoisehg in Windows. When I try to connect to bitbucket repositories, the generated command line by tortoisehg was hg clone --debug-- http://bitbucket.org/<path to repo>.

The console shows as follows:

using http://bitbucket.org/<path to repo>
proxying through http://172.19.6.47:8080
http auth: user <username>, password not set
sending capabilities command

I also run wireshark to monitor the traffic. To my surprise the traffic is transferred to bitbucket directly. I thought it should send the packets to the proxy server first. Does it mean that my proxy server does not take effect? What can I do to make it take effect?

Rodomontade

Answer 1

Your mercurial.ini file should have a section like so:

[http_proxy]
host = aproxy.somedomain.com:1234

Check that it is present. Maybe it wasn't saved correctly?

I made a fake entry as above and tried a pull and immediately got a failure to connect to proxy.

Staton

I edited the file with tortoisehg GUI and I confirmed the result correct after I read the generated mercurial.ini. But I clearly saw the TCP SYN sent to bitbucket directly, with my proxy setting ignored. And of course I saw a timeout error (URLError: [Errno 10060] ) since I did not have direct Internet connection. Are you using tortoisehg on Windows? What version of mercurial are you using? – Rodomontade

I am using the latest TortoiseHg 2.4.2 on Windows. – Staton

Answer 2

The following two webpage have a right answer.

(1) http://d.hatena.ne.jp/falkenhagen/20091007/1254909363

(2) http://www.jameswampler.com/2010/06/10/configure-mercurial-hg-to-use-a-proxy-server/

From the second link, he says:

My laptop is behind our corporate firewall for most of the day, so being able to do an hg push/pull against bitbucket.org fails because it isn’t hitting or proxy server. To setup Mercurial to use a proxy server, edit your hrgc file in the .hg folder of your repository and add this section:

[http_proxy]
host = foo.bar:8000
passwd = password
user = username

Just change the values to your proxy server hostname and port, username and password.

Selfabsorbed

While this link may answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here and provide the link for reference. Link-only answers can become invalid if the linked page changes. - From Review – Averse

@DamianKozlak, I have modified the answer, please kindly check it. – Selfabsorbed

Good, it's much better. – Averse