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iandayman
iandayman

Reputation: 4467

Can't run bower or npm through network firewall even with proxy set - ETIMEOUT

I can't get bower or npm to work though a client's network and I'm not sure if I'm setting up the proxy settings correctly.

I've tried the various suggestions on answers to similar questions and simply nothing works for me. I get the following error:

C:\myproj>bower search react
bower retry         Request to http://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/search/react
failed with ETIMEDOUT, retrying in 1.7s
bower retry         Request to http://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/search/react
failed with ETIMEDOUT, retrying in 3.6s
bower retry         Request to http://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/search/react
failed with ETIMEDOUT, retrying in 7.0s
bower retry         Request to http://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/search/react
failed with ETIMEDOUT, retrying in 14.6s

I can access http://bower.herokuapp.com fine though the browser and it serves me the json reply.

my .bowerrc file (used '\\' on the domain\user name as it failed to parse it otherwise):

{
    "directory": "Content/bower_components",
    "proxy": "http://mydomain\\myuser:[email protected]:8080",
    "https-proxy": "http://mydomain\\myuser:[email protected]:8080",
    "strict-ssl": false,
    "registry": "http://bower.herokuapp.com"
}

for NPM it just hangs:

C:\myproj>npm install grunt-cli
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No repository field.
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No README data
|

my .gitconfig file:

[url "http://"]
    insteadOf = git://
[http]
    proxy = http://mydomain\\myuser:[email protected]:8080
[https]
    proxy = http://mydomain\\myuser:[email protected]:8080

my .npmrc file:

proxy=http://mydomain\\myuser:[email protected]:8080/
https-proxy=http://mydomain\\myuser:[email protected]:8080/
strict-ssl=false

All works fine if I connect to a different network without firewall. I'm not sure if I've entered my user name/ password correctly on the proxy string supplied, or if I'm just missing a setting somewhere else.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 595

Answers (1)

iandayman
iandayman

Reputation: 4467

So the problem was that I didn't escape special characters in my proxy url used by NPM (.npmrc) and Bower (.bowerrc).

i.e.

proxy=http://domain\user:password@proxy:8080"

needed to be 

proxy=http://domain%5Cuser:password@proxy:8080"

Upvotes: 1

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