git over ssh support about thingworx-gitbackup-extension HOT 7 CLOSED

In short, not on the short term, but I am aware that at least one other company needed this, and they implemented the key based authentication on their own.
GitBackup supports proxy (albeit a crude implementation) - sure you can't do it in that way?

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@TG-JC any luck on testing the HTTP proxy support?

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Closing the question as of now due to lack of feedback.
Please feel free to re-open in future if needed.

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Hello Vladimir,

As expected, it does not work. This result is compliant with tests I did in the past with command line git.

Here is configuration - I wiped out my enterprise login/password

Result is the same if I remove user:password string from proxy settings.

Please note that GitBackup is on the internet and tries to access an on-prem bitbucket. I need to cross an enterprise reverse proxy. When trying to access this ressource manually through a browser, I have to give my password twice: first time at reverse proxy level (NTLM, or kind of), then at Bitbucket level (through ADFS, with redirection). SSH was the key to overcome this complexity.

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Test was done with 443 port, not 433

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I understand. Modifying the extension to allow authentication through SSH keys would need to involve this:

1. Placing the SSH key in the subfolder corresponding to your GitThing (eg: GitRepository/mygitthingsubfolder/key.ssh). Ideally a parameter would allow you to define
2. Implementing the SSH-key based authentication in the Java GitBackup template - I found this as an example https://www.codeaffine.com/2014/12/09/jgit-authentication/

I do not have a timeline to implement this, but I can spend time for quick helper meetings if you or somebody would be willing to work on this (it requires Eclipse+Java knowledge).
Note: Ideally (but not mandatory), the end result should result in an update to the extension so that everyone can benefit, considering the open-source mentality around it.

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Contributing back to community is not at all an issue.
The issue is that our team doesn't have know-how to develop JAVA extension.
Since Thingworx should be a low code platform, we do not invest in JAVA developers :(

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