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@@ -58,6 +58,20 @@ the password, and add the following to your `$HOME/.netrc` file:
where YourUserNameHere is your username, and YourPasswordHere is the password you
just generated.
+If your system is behind a snooping HTTPS proxy, you might also have to
+make its SSL certificate known to curl, a system specific operation.
+If that's not possible for some reason, you can also disable SSL
+certificate verification in git:
+
+ git config [--global] http.sslVerify [true|false]
+
+The `--global` argument sets it for all git transfers of your local
+user, `false` means not to validate the certificate.
+
+If that still doesn't allow you to pull or push changes to the server, the
+proxy is likely tampering with the data stream, in which case there's nothing
+we can do.
+
## Part 3: Clone coreboot and configure it for submitting patches
On Gerrit, click on the **Browse** tab in the upper left corner and select