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I am building a web application in Visual Studio 2015. I am behind corporate proxy. Installing packages via bower is not working.

I tried the following workarounds.

  1. Created a .bowerrc file in the solution with the following settings.

    {
  "proxy": "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:Port",
  "https-proxy": "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:Port",
  "strict-ssl": false
}

  2. Installed Git. Changed the git configuration to use https:// instead of git://

When I run the following command
bower install
I get the following error.

bower ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads https://github.com/jzaefferer/jquery-validation.git", exit code of #128

Additional error details: fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/jzaefferer/jquery-validation.git/': Failed connect to github.com:443; No error

Any idea what went wrong?

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  • Seems your corporate proxy doesn't want you to communicate with github? Verify your proxy settings. The command that fails works fine here. :) – AndersNS Mar 02 '15 at 08:57

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You need to set HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY env var with your proxy settings in order to access git behind a proxy

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I had a similar problem with Bower in VS2015 CTP. Managed to resolve it by commenting out two lines in the bower.cmd file that is used by VS: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29605933/3131828.

It basically makes sure that VS uses the Git I had already installed which respects my .gitconfig file. Apparently by default it uses a lightweight git.exe that does not read .gitconfig.

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