Not able to connect to atom.io for themes and packages

Question

I believe my work proxy is preventing me from being able to add themes and packages to Atom. From the preferences menu, I get:

Fetching featured packages and themes fai

Answer 1

I was getting this error on Windows 7 fro Atom 1.0, when trying to look up packages. In my case the issue was resolved by setting https-proxy variable to use http protocole instead of https. so both of the following parameters have exact same value.

here are the values from ~.atom.apmrc file

proxy=http://[host]:[port]/ https-proxy=http://[host]:[port]/

the answer by @NYCdotNet below that suggested to use

strict-ssl=false

didn't work as i was able to lookup some packages but installation failed with timeout error from GIT.