npm install fails when behind a proxy about dugite HOT 5 CLOSED

OK, so I set the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables and the install worked. 🙌

It might be a good idea to add this info to the docs / error message. Maybe this will help someone in the future.

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I just found this issue desktop/dugite-native#62 where @seriouz seams to have the same problem.

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@MartinBenninger, I have just tried it on my Windows 10 image, and it worked for me.

$ mkdir dugite-tmp && cd dugite-tmp && node --version && npm --version && npm init -y && npm i -S dugite
v8.7.0
5.4.2
Wrote to C:\Users\kittaakos\dev\dugite-tmp\package.json:

{
  "name": "dugite-tmp",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}



> [email protected] postinstall C:\Users\kittaakos\dev\dugite-tmp\node_modules\dugite
> node ./script/download-git.js

Downloading Git from: https://github.com/desktop/dugite-native/releases/download/v2.15.0-rc1/dugite-native-v2.15.0-win32-25.tar.gz




npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN [email protected] No description
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.

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I guess this is a proxy issue then. I am currently behind a corporate proxy but I was at home (no proxy) when I ran it on Linux.

I have configured my proxy with npm and don't have issues downloading or installing other packages. My guess is that the download-git.js script is attempting to download something without using the proxy configuration.

Is there a way that I could configure the proxy for the download script?

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If someone wants to refine the error message, this is the code to change:

To handle the ETIMEDOUT message better you could write something like this:

req.on('error', function (error) {
  if (error.message.code === 'ETIMEDOUT') {
    console.log(`A timeout has occurred while downloading '${config.source}' - check your internet access and try again`, error)
  } else {
    console.log(`Error raised while downloading ${config.source}`, error)
  }

  process.exit(1)
})

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