title: Pushing to Git returning Error Code 403 fatal: HTTP request failed
body: <p>I was able to clone a copy of this repo over HTTPS authenticated. I've made some commits and want to push back out to the GitHub server. Using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64.</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\cygwin\home\XPherior\Code\lunch_call&gt;git push
  Password:
  error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://MichaelDrog
  alis@github.com/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs
  
  fatal: HTTP request failed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also set it up with verbose mode. I'm still pretty baffled.</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\cygwin\home\XPherior\Code\lunch_call&gt;set GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1
  
  C:\cygwin\home\XPherior\Code\lunch_call&gt;git push
  Password:
  * Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults
  * About to connect() to github.com port 443 (#0)
  *   Trying 207.97.227.239... * 0x23cb740 is at send pipe head!
  * Connected to github.com (207.97.227.239) port 443 (#0)
  * successfully set certificate verify locations:
  *   CAfile: C:\Program Files (x86)\Git/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt
    CApath: none
  * SSL connection using AES256-SHA
  * Server certificate:
  *        subject: 2.5.4.15=Private Organization; 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=US; 1.
  3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2=California; serialNumber=C3268102; C=US; ST=California; L
  =San Francisco; O=GitHub, Inc.; CN=github.com
  *        start date: 2011-05-27 00:00:00 GMT
  *        expire date: 2013-07-29 12:00:00 GMT
  *        subjectAltName: github.com matched
  *        issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; OU=www.digicert.com; CN=DigiCert High Ass
  urance EV CA-1
  *        SSL certificate verify ok.
  &gt; GET /derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1
  User-Agent: git/1.7.4.3282.g844cb
  Host: github.com
  Accept: */*
  Pragma: no-cache
  
  &lt; HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
  &lt; Server: nginx/1.0.4
  &lt; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:44:41 GMT
  &lt; Content-Type: text/plain
  &lt; Connection: keep-alive
  &lt; Content-Length: 55
  &lt; WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="GitHub"
  &lt;
  * Ignoring the response-body
  * Expire cleared
  * Connection #0 to host github.com left intact
  * Issue another request to this URL: 'https://MichaelDrogalis@github.com/dereker
  dmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack'
  * Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults
  * Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host github.com
  * Connected to github.com (207.97.227.239) port 443 (#0)
  * 0x23cb740 is at send pipe head!
  * Server auth using Basic with user 'MichaelDrogalis'
  &gt; GET /derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1
  Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  User-Agent: git/1.7.4.3282.g844cb
  Host: github.com
  Accept: */*
  Pragma: no-cache
  
  &lt; HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
  &lt; Server: nginx/1.0.4
  &lt; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:44:41 GMT
  &lt; Content-Type: text/plain
  &lt; Connection: keep-alive
  &lt; Content-Length: 55
  * Authentication problem. Ignoring this.
  &lt; WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="GitHub"
  * The requested URL returned error: 401
  * Closing connection #0
  * Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults
  * About to connect() to github.com port 443 (#0)
  *   Trying 207.97.227.239... * 0x23cb740 is at send pipe head!
  * Connected to github.com (207.97.227.239) port 443 (#0)
  * successfully set certificate verify locations:
  *   CAfile: C:\Program Files (x86)\Git/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt
    CApath: none
  * SSL re-using session ID
  * SSL connection using AES256-SHA
  * old SSL session ID is stale, removing
  * Server certificate:
  *        subject: 2.5.4.15=Private Organization; 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=US; 1.
  3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2=California; serialNumber=C3268102; C=US; ST=California; L
  =San Francisco; O=GitHub, Inc.; CN=github.com
  *        start date: 2011-05-27 00:00:00 GMT
  *        expire date: 2013-07-29 12:00:00 GMT
  *        subjectAltName: github.com matched
  *        issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; OU=www.digicert.com; CN=DigiCert High Ass
  urance EV CA-1
  *        SSL certificate verify ok.
  * Server auth using Basic with user 'MichaelDrogalis'
  &gt; GET /derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs HTTP/1.1
  Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  User-Agent: git/1.7.4.3282.g844cb
  Host: github.com
  Accept: */*
  Pragma: no-cache
  
  * The requested URL returned error: 403
  * Expire cleared
  * Closing connection #0
  error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://MichaelDrog
  alis@github.com/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs
  
  fatal: HTTP request failed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>These are the versions of git and curl that I have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\XPherior&gt;git --version
  git version 1.7.4.msysgit.0
  
  C:\Users\XPherior&gt;curl --version
  curl 7.21.7 (amd64-pc-win32) libcurl/7.21.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5
  Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap pop3 pop3s rtsp
  smtp smtps telnet tftp
  Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate Largefile NTLM SSL SSPI libz
  </code></pre>