Git / Bower Errors: Exit Code # 128 & Failed connect

Question

I am using Bower to install several libraries. For demonstration purposes here, I am installing bootstrap. Regardless of the package, I receive the following errors:

Answer 1

I came across this with my corporate network.

It seemed strange because I've always been using ssh to connect with git and never had an issue.

I tried https and didn't work so I added proxy settings to git's config and all was well

git config --global http.proxy http://proxyuser:proxypwd@proxy.server.com:8080
git config --global https.proxy https://proxyuser:proxypwd@proxy.server.com:8080

And making sure it worked

git config --list