Bower install - failed with ETIMEDOUT

Question

When I run bower install, I get the following error:

Request to https://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/jquery failed with ETIMEDOUT, retrying in 1.8s

But when I run the same URL in the address bar of Chrome, I get the json. I don't know why it fails when I do bower install using Windows 7 command shell. I suspect it has got something to do with my workplace's proxy settings.

Anyone?

Answer 1

Try edit .bowerrc

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

Answer 2

Have you tried something like http_proxy='proxyserver' https_proxy='proxyserver' bower install? (where proxyserver is your proxy)