manual http authorization (no netrc)

I'm getting authorization errors when I lack a .netrc for an http-based server. Specifically:

tf@shigeru tmp $ git clone http://myhost:port/git/io.git
Cloning into io...
Username:
Password:
error: The requested URL returned error: 401 (curl_result = 22, http_code = 401, sha1 = 9c201da4d64e2fd178935b9ebbd6e110a97578d4)
error: Unable to find 9c201da4d64e2fd178935b9ebbd6e110a97578d4 under
http://shigeru.sci.utah.edu:1234/git/io.git
Cannot obtain needed blob 9c201da4d64e2fd178935b9ebbd6e110a97578d4 while processing commit b1853d6f6a54cf22e259a75f77770eef53b8cb38.
error: Fetch failed.

I did try multiple times; the username/password combo is correct :)

A friend of mine is also experiencing the same problem. The server is running git 1.5.6.5; my client is 1.7.3.4, and I'm not sure what the other party's is, but it's likely to be recent.

Everything works fine if we just create a ~/.netrc and set things up appropriately. `curl-config --version' says "libcurl 7.18.2" on my workstation.

What have we configured incorrectly?

-tom

hmm, can you try passing username and password in this manner

http://<user>:<pwd>@server:port/

?

Also, does your username/password contain special, non-alphanumeric characters? I remember there was a change to how we handled those some time ago.

Cheers,
Ray Chuan

[snip]

Yes. That worked! Though it was very quiet; the only message I got was "Cloning into io..."; no "remote:" messages or "Receiving " messages. That's neither here nor there, though.

Nope, both would encode fine in 7bit ascii.

Thanks much for the workaround,

-tom