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FireSBurnsmuP
FireSBurnsmuP

Reputation: 953

vs2017 cannot browse online extensions

I just installed Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise, and the first thing I do is try and install the extensions I usually prefer.

I open up the Extensions and Updates dialog, which loads all the installed plugins that came with the install.

I click the "Online" tab on the left, and it loads... "No items found". No extensions exist online, huh? I'm sure that's right. </sarcasm>

So I try searching. Then I am presented with an error in the Extensions and Updates dialog:

A connection to the server could not be established because the following error(s) occurred:

The magic number in the GZip header is not correct. Make sure you are passing in a GZip stream.

Please click here to retry the request.

I am on a corporate network, so a firewall thing could be a problem, except I would expect that VS2015 would have the same problem, then, which it doesn't. I can browse online extensions in 2015 without any problems.

This is a completely fresh install.

I haven't been able to find anything about this online, every time I find something referencing this error it's because someone is coding something wrong, not because VS is being weird.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1206

Answers (1)

FireSBurnsmuP
FireSBurnsmuP

Reputation: 953

This was a bug that was supposedly fixed in version 15.4.

I can vouch personally for it working fine in version 15.5.1+.

Here's The Visual Studio Developer Community Problem I cross-posted that has more details from the MS team. You can see that the accepted solution over there was posted on October 9, stating that it was fixed in 15.4.

Here's also the Release Notes from Vs2017 v15.4 for more details about that.

Upvotes: 1

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