使用npm安装grunt-browser-sync时出错

Question

I'm trying to install the plugin via (version 3.3.8):

npm install grunt-browser-sync --save-dev

First my terminal hangs at loading xmlhttprequest:

Then after waiting a while, I get this error:

If I navigate in my browser to the url https://github.com/rase-/node-XMLHttpRequest/archive/a6b6f2.tar.gz , it works..

I'm working on Windows 7 Enterprise.
npm version 3.3.8.
I'm working behind a proxy, but the settings are correct, because .

What I already tried:

• use different version of npm (3.3.1, 3.3.5, 3.3.6, 3.3.7)
• npm cache clean

Answer 1

The issue seems to be that npm is not that great with HTTPS over a proxy. Changing the registry URL from HTTPS to HTTP is a work around:

npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/

But your problem doesn't seems to end here as it's not getting the dependency from http://registry.npmjs.org ,
but from: https://github.com/rase-/node-XMLHttpRequest/archive/a6b6f2.tar.gz

Since you're behind a proxy, using npm can be a real pain sometimes. So you've to configure npm to work with your web proxy. Here is an example:

npm config set proxy http://proxy.company.com:8080
npm config set https-proxy http://proxy.company.com:8080