Resolve: mercurial abort: error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
When trying to pull from bitbucket while behind a corporate firewall i had this error:
mercurial abort: error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
Stackoverflow said I needed to configure a proxy.
Proxy settings are found here:
Internet explorer > Internet options > Connections > LAN Settings
In the Local Area Network (LAN) Settings dialog... but proxy server was not specified, instead a Use automatic configuration script was specified.
I downloaded the script that was specified.
It was a lengthy javascript file (800 lines long), starting like this:
function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
hostIP = dnsResolve(host);
var tmpURL = url.substr(0,10);
if(tmpURL.indexOf('://') == -1)
{
url='http://' + url;
}
Near the end it told you the general proxy settings to use....
if (shExpMatch(url, "https://*"))
{
return "PROXY machinename1.adomain:8080; PROXY machinename2.adomain:8080;";
}
else
{
return "PROXY machinename1.adomain:8080; PROXY machinename2.adomain:8080;";
}
(Names have been changed to protect the LAN)
So I took one of the addresses from there and put it into my mercurial.ini file like this:
[http_proxy]
host = machinename1.adomain:8080
Tried hg in again, and it now worked!
I am good at computers today.