Cannot sync with gradle behind proxy, site is not blocked, opens from browser

Question

I am trying to open a project (developed in a different machine) with my newly installed android studio 2.3. The studio was downloading gradle-2.1.2.pom

Answer 1

I found out the answer. The solution is to add the certificate to the site https://jcenter.bintray.com in Java (follow this link to do so) and restart the android studio. Basically, the site has to be trusted by java runtime for connecting using https.