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Ticket UUID: 9a8256d200a95589eb511fea5a24056bb0843579
Title: Clone of fossil repository is failing from windows executable
Status: Closed Type: Incident
Severity: Important Priority:
Subsystem: Resolution: Withdrawn
Last Modified: 2011-03-16 18:55:54
Version Found In: 1d93222627]
Description & Comments:
I was doing some preliminary playing around with fossil to determine if it would be suitable for some projects I work on. I am using a command prompt in Windows XP. The first thing I tried was the clone suggested in the manual to get at the source for fossil. But when I tried it, it repeatedly threw "clone aborted".

Just to be sure, I tried all of the various servers, tried using -A anonymous, tried anonymous@www.fossil-scm..., tried adding a :8080 at the end, and none of these attempts allowed me to connect to the fossil servers.

Here's an example of what I see in my command prompt:

>fossil clone http://www.fossil-scm.org/ myclone.fossil
                Bytes      Cards  Artifacts     Deltas
Sent:              53          1          0          0
H:\fossil\fossil.exe: cannot connect to host www.fossil-scm.org:80
Total network traffic: 0 bytes sent, 0 bytes received
H:\fossil\fossil.exe: server returned an error - clone aborted

anonymous added on 2011-03-16 18:55:54 UTC:
I discovered that the problem is a proxy server on my end. I haven't figured out how to get around it, but at least I now know where the problem lies.