How can I get bower install working behind proxy?

Question

I have set (I think) all the proxy settings for windows and npm works. However bower does not, this is the error I am getting:

  download https://github.com/jquery/jquery/archive/2.1.4.tar.gz
     retry Download of https://github.com/jquery/jquery/archive/2.1.4.tar.gz failed with ECONNRESET, retrying in 1.7s
     retry Download of https://github.com/jquery/jquery/archive/2.1.4.tar.gz failed with ECONNRESET, retrying in 2.2s
    Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, unlink...

The file that displays after unlink does not even exist.

Bower version: 1.5.3 Node version: 4.1.1 OS: Windows_NT 6.1.7601 x64.

How can I avoid this error?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

Have a look here: https://github.com/bower/spec/blob/master/config.md#https-proxy

In your .bowerrc, you can add the following properties:

"proxy":"http://<host>:<port>",
"https-proxy":"http://<host>:<port>"

Here's also an example that includes user and password authentication fr the proxy (if that's the case):

"proxy":"http://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>",
"https-proxy":"http://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>"

Also, have a look at this question on Stack: bower proxy configuration

How can I get bower install working behind proxy?

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