npm git protocol dependencies

Question

At work we are behind an HTTP Proxy and the git protocol (port 9418) is denied. My project has NPM dependencies and some of these dependencies have dependencies that use the git protocol, for instance:

In my package.json

"dependencies": {
    "jsdoc3" : "git+https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc.git"
}

and the package.json of jsdoc3:

"dependencies": {
    "crypto-browserify": "git://github.com/dominictarr/crypto-browserify.git#95c5d505",
    "github-flavored-markdown": "git://github.com/hegemonic/github-flavored-markdown.git"
}

How can I get those dependencies, how to tell NPM to use git+https:// protocol instead of git:// protocol or to be able to use the git protocol?

To simplify things I'm on windows (it would be easier on Linux to create an SSH tunnel), and I use GIT-Bash.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can tell git to use https instead of git:// with the following command:

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

Answer 2

Finally I found a dirty solution, but that works fine. I've modified the code of NPM to replace the git protocol by the http protocol (thanks to opened source)

On npm v1.1.69, into the file npm/lib/cache.js, I've added the following lines to the function addRemoteGit

 // ssh paths that are scp-style urls don't need the ssh://
 if (parsed.pathname.match(/^\/?:/)) {
   u = u.replace(/^ssh:\/\//, "")
 }

 //begin trick
 if(/^git:/.test(u)){
     u = u.replace(/^git/, 'https');
 }
 //end trick

 log.verbose("addRemoteGit", [u, co])