Repo clones over HTTPS are broken for slow connections #135808
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Select Topic AreaQuestion BodyIntroduction: Repo clones over HTTPS are broken for slow connections due to what seems to be an error on GitHub's end, and GitHub apparently doesn't plan to fix it. This is can be a big issue since e.g. this also breaks any submodules or install scripts that indirectly access any GitHub repo of any kind that isn't trivially sized. I am writing this here so people can reference this issue. This is who is affected:
This is how it looks like: This is why it seems to be an error on Github's end:
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This is still broken as of today, 2024-11-07. |
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What in the world is this? Some horrible DoS mitigation?
Could I see their response? This issue can be reliably reproduced by attempting to clone a repository from github.com over HTTPS over Tor. However I have also reproduced this issue by attempting to clone a large repository through connecting to an external SOCKS5 proxy over Tor where the target system hosting the proxy is on a fast network and cloning on the target system itself succeeds which would led credence to your theory. |
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Same issue here, it's really frustrating |
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We are experiencing the same issue here since the end of the last week. In our case almost every clone or fetch done through HTTPs is extremely slow (around 1 Mb/s). It's causing all our CI pipelines to fail due timeouts. In some cases we are seeing the same output error: |
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We are also having this issue in our CI pipelines hosted on Google Cloud. We are also having extremely slow transfer with SSH. The node itself does not have general networking issues, and the issues are specific to Github. |
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Very slow for me too, and continues after weeks, Here are my speed results, so I am not on a slow connection by any means, I have a fiber connection, and ethernet connection to this server, and everything else is blazing fast, even github zip download is fast: |
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This seems to have been fixed at some point during the last days leading up to today (2025-03-21), thanks in part to @MarinoJurisic 's tireless efforts to convince Github support to revisit this problem!!! 🎉 |
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This seems to have been fixed at some point during the last days leading up to today (2025-03-21), thanks in part to @MarinoJurisic 's tireless efforts to convince Github support to revisit this problem!!! 🎉