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 edited the ~/.atom/.apmrc file to set my proxy as mentioned by @AlexMooney, but still got errors. The solution was to write

proxy = http://host:port
strict-ssl = false

in that ~/.atom/.apmrc file.