npm install without ssl

Question

I have an Ubuntu VM that is having trouble connecting to sites with ssl, i.e. https. It can successfully download artifacts from the internet if the url begins with http.

Answer 1

After much trial and error I found that in addition to all that was said above, I also need to set the https-proxy to the value of the http proxy.

So the end .npmrc file looks like

proxy=http://username:password@proxy.address:port/
https-proxy=http://username:password@proxy.address:port/
strict-ssl=false
registry=http://registry.npmjs.org/

Note that proxy and https-proxy are identical!

See the comments on this thread for more info:

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8034

Also I ran a npm cache clean --force after updating the npmrc for good measure but I am not sure if it is required.

Hope that helps.