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I read that

HTTP, aka http://github.com
Doesn't work with GitHub anymore

However it seems to work for me

$ git clone http://github.com/antirez/redis
Cloning into 'redis'...
remote: Counting objects: 26084, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9644/9644), done.
remote: Total 26084 (delta 19341), reused 22821 (delta 16228)
Receiving objects: 100% (26084/26084), 6.10 MiB | 916.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (19341/19341), done.
Checking connectivity... done

I understand the security implications, but I would like to know the status of using HTTP protocol with GitHub.

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  • My mistake, my mind was was still in client certificate athentication. Your right, GIT is unable to run with public keys over http, but requires the backend of SSH to do so.
    – Mark Lopez
    Commented Dec 20, 2013 at 1:13

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From: "Robert Sese (GitHub Staff)"

That's correct, we don't support git operations over HTTP.  If you add the verbose 
curl flag to your clone, you should see a redirect to HTTPS in the output:

GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git clone http://github.com/antirez/redis
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