How to access Github through a firewall while playing man-in-the-middle when using https?

Question

I need to access Github for read and write access. I used to just use a simple HTTP protocol that worked fine. But today it does not seem to work anymore.

My problem: I'm behind a firewall where only HTTP access is possible. https access seems rather complicated because the firewall acts like a man in the middle: it decrypts all SSL traffic from / to the Internet and again encrypts it with its own certificate for the user. This certificate can be extracted from installed web browsers.

Is there a way to set up a working connection with GitHub in these conditions? If so, how can this be done?

Regards, Marcus

Answer 1

Finally, he worked with https by setting git config --global http.sslVerify false , so the company certificate is ignored.