HG PUSH : abort: error: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

Question

I am trying to push my changeset and after halting for a long time, I am getting this error message:

abort: error: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the

Answer 1

Have you configured an [http_proxy] somewhere by any chance?

E.g. in your .hgrc or a tortoise mercurial.ini? This has been other people's problem.

Other people have reported the problem for Mercurial 2.0 but as working fine in Mercurial 1.