Problem pulling through http proxy

[Mads Kiilerich]

toni.arte at nokia.com wrote, On 05/24/2010 02:42 PM:
> Hi all,
> I’m doing some performance testing on Mercurial, using the Linux 
> kernel Mercurial repository as the test data.
> I noticed a problem with the http proxy setup:
> * I have no problems cloning the whole repository over a proxy connection
> * But if I clone the repo up to a certain revision, any attempts to do 
> a ‘hg incoming’ or ‘hg pull’ fails
> * This happens on any version of Mercurial I have tried (including 
> 1.5.3), and it’s the same on Windows and Linux
> * Connecting directly into the Internet solves the problem, but that 
> is not possible within our office premises

It seems like the proxy chokes on the Mercurial http traffic. Is it 
filtering aggresively? Could you check the proxy logs?

It could be related to big http requests - see 
http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue1650 (and perhaps 
http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue682 and 
http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue2126)

/Mads