Using npm behind corporate proxy pac

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I need to download several packages through npm but our corporate proxy configuration is a  pac file  i m on windows   I have already tried  npm config set proxy http   mydomain username password 1 2 3 4 8181 proxy pac npm config set https-proxy http   mydomain username password 1 2 3 4 8181 proxy pac   or  npm config set proxy http   1 2 3 4 8181 proxy pac npm config set https-proxy http   1 2 3 4 8181 proxy pac   but it doesn t work     any suggestion  thanks

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Just create a file named  npmrc file in a your project folder  it will avoid proxy setting at system level   Without password proxy http   ipaddress 80 https-proxy http   ipaddress 80   With password proxy http    lt username gt   lt pass gt  proxyhost  lt port gt  https-proxy http    lt uname gt   lt pass gt  proxyhost  lt port gt    Comment like this if you don t use the proxy   proxy http   ipaddress 80  https-proxy http   ipaddress 80   With password  proxy http    lt username gt   lt pass gt  proxyhost  lt port gt   https-proxy http    lt uname gt   lt pass gt  proxyhost  lt port gt

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I could not make it work with the CNTLM  I tried following all the information posted above  but the proxy still did not authorize the connection  With Fiddler  you just have to install it and check the Automatically Authenticated option  But to work  I had to remove the  npmrc file from my user folder  and set the environment variables as indicated here  with these values   set npm config https-proxy  http   127 0 0 1 8888   set npm config registry  http   registry npmjs org

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I had a similar issue and I tried all the workarounds above but none of them worked for me   I was using special characters  like     symbol  in my password and I also needed to add domain name    Apart from that I was bit apprehensive to add my password as plain text  It turned-out the easiest solution to overcome all these challenges was to use some sort of reverse proxy  like Fiddler    I have already detailed the configuration steps in this answer in SO

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You can check Fiddler if NPM is giving Authentication error  It is easy to install and configure  Set Fiddler Rule to Automatically Authenticated In  npmrc set these properties  registry http   registry npmjs org proxy http   127 0 0 1 8888 https-proxy http   127 0 0 1 8888 http-proxy http   127 0 0 1 8888 strict-ssl false   It worked for me

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I solved this problem this way   1  I run this command   npm config set strict-ssl false  2  Then set npm to run with http  instead of https   npm config set registry  http   registry npmjs org    3  Then install your package   npm install  lt package name gt

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Try this  Set proxy in npm as follows  npm config set proxy  http    lt user-name gt   lt password gt   lt proxy-url gt   lt port gt   npm config set https-proxy  http    lt user-name gt   lt password gt   lt proxy-url gt   lt port gt   npm config set strict-ssl false npm config set registry  http   registry npmjs org

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Adding the lines below in the  typingsrc file helped me          rejectUnauthorized   false       registryURL    http   api typings org

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The NPM proxy setup mentioned in the accepted answer solve the problem  but as you can see in this npm issue  some dependencies uses GIT and that makes the git proxy setup needed  and can be done as follow   git config --global http proxy http   username password host port git config --global https proxy http   username password host port   The NPM proxy setup mentioned   npm config set proxy  http   username password host port  npm config set https-proxy  http   username password host port  npm config set strict-ssl false npm config set registry  http   registry npmjs org

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I ran into similar issue and found out that my npm config file    npmrc  is having wrong registry entry  commented it out and re ran npm install  it worked

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Because I still have problems with setting proxy settings at work and turning them off at home  I have scripted and publish npm-corpo-proxy sh  In every corpo the password has to be changed often and must contain special chars  which must be encoded before feeding npm config  the same for backash form domain user

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Look for the url of the pac file in internet explorer lan settings and download the pac file from the URL configured  The pac file is just a javascript file with a function named FindProxyForURL which returns different proxy hosts in different scenarios   Try to find a host in that pac file which you think is for general web traffic and plug it into  npmrc  in C  Users  lt username gt   npmrc   proxy http    lt username gt   lt pass gt  proxyhost  lt port gt  https-proxy http    lt uname gt   lt pass gt  proxyhost  lt port gt    Even though you may login with your domain and username on your corporate machine   It is highly possible that the user active directory domain name is not required for the proxy  only the username and password  which may be different than your Active Directory login   Don t forget to fiddle with escaping special password characters

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If you are behind a corporate network with proxy  i just used a ntlm proxy tool and used the port and proxy provided by ntlm  for instnce i used this configuration    strict-ssl false proxy http   localhost 3125   I hope this helps

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I had run into several issues with this and finally what I did is as follows    Used Fiddler  with  Automatically Authenticate  selected  In fiddler custom rules  i added   if  m AutoAuth   oSession  X-AutoAuth      domain  username password     Finally in npm i set the proxy to http   localhost 8888   This worked fine

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Don t Forget to use URL Encoding for password  Suppose ur username   quot xyz quot  pwd   quot abc 11 quot  then your C  Users lt username gt  npmrc should be like proxy  http   domainname 5Cxyz abc 2311 servername port servername   It can be obtained from the pac file of your internet explorer

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None of the existing answers explain how to use npm with a PAC file  Some suggest downloading the PAC file  manually inspecting it  and choosing one of the  PROXY      strings  But this doesn t work if the PAC file needs to choose from multiple proxies  or if the PAC file contains complex logic to bypass proxies for certain URLs   Also  some corporate proxies require NTLM authentication  CNTLM can handle authentication  but doesn t support PAC files   An alternative is to use Alpaca  which executes the PAC file in a JavaScript VM  and performs NTLM authentication with the resulting proxy

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Try this  it was the only that worked for me   npm --proxy http     proxyhost  --https-proxy http     proxyhost  --strict-ssl false install -g package  Pay atention to the option --strict-ssl false  Good luck

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Download your  pac file  Open it in any editor and look for PROXY    PROXY X X X X 80   You may have many proxies  copy any of them and run the following terminal commands   npm config set proxy http   X X X X 80 npm config set https-proxy http   X X X X 80   Now you should be able to install any package

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For anyone struggling behind a corporate firewall  as well as issues with SSL  unable to get local issuer certificate   here are some steps you can try   Forget about SSL  If you are not concerned about SSL  then you can follow the advice of many previous contributors by setting your proxies and changing the registry to the non-secure version   npm config set proxy http   username password proxyname port npm config set https-proxy http   username password proxyname port npm config set registry http   registry npmjs org    A quick  gotcha  here  my proxy credentials are the same for secured and non-secured requests  notice how I left my protocol as http    for the https-proxy configuration   This may be the same for you  and it may not   I want to keep SSL  If you want to keep SSL  and don t want to use strict-ssl false  then you have more work to do  For me  I am behind a corporate firewall and we are using self-signed certificates  so I receive the error unable to get local issuer certificate  If you are in the same boat as me  then you will need to set the cafile  option in the npm config file  First  you need to create a PEM file which holds information about your self-signed certificates  If you do not know how to do that  here are instructions for a Windows environment without using 3rd party software   We need to explicitly indicate which certificates should be trusted because we are using self signing certificates  For my example  I navigated to www google com using Chrome so I could grab the certificates   In Chrome  go to Inspect -  Security -  View Certificate  You will see all of the certificates that allow the SSL connection  Notice how these certificates are self signed  The blurred-out part is my company  and we are not a Certified Authority  You can export the full certificate path as a P7B file  or you can export the certificates individually as CER files  base64 encoding   Exporting the full path as P7B doesn t do you much good because you will in-turn need to open this file in a certificate manager and export as individual CER files anyway  In Windows  double-clicking the P7B file will open the Certificate Manager application     Exporting as CER  Base 64  is really a text file in the following format   -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- MIIGqzCCBZOgAwIBAgITIwAAABWhFPjwukYhTAADAAAAFTANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUF ADBFMRMwEQYKCZImiZPyLGQBGRYDY29tMRYwFAYKCZImiZPyLGQBGRYGaXJ2aW5n b0pvCkNmjWzaNNUg2hYET pP5nP75aRu kPRl9UnlQ    rest of certificate    -----END CERTIFICATE-----   To create our PEM file  we simply need to stack these certificates on top of each other into a single file and change the extension to  pem  I used notepad to do this   You stack the certificates in reverse order from the certificate path  So above  I would start with   google com then paste Websense below it  then Issuing CA 1 etc  This way the certificates are parsed from the top to the bottom searching for the appropriate Root CA  Simply including the Root CA will not work  but we also do not need to include all the certificates  From the above path  I only need to include those certificates that come before the Websense certificate  Issuing CA 1  Policy CA  Root CA    Once these self signed certs are saved to a PEM file  we are ready to instruct npm to use these certificates as our trusted CA  Simply set the config file and you should be good to go   npm config set cafile  C  yourcerts pem    Now  with your proxies set  http and https   and the registry set to https   registry npmjs org  you should be able to install packages behind a corporate firewall with self-signed certificates without nuking the strict-ssl setting

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You must use  npm config set http-proxy    use   npm config set http-proxy http   1 2 3 4 8181 npm config set https-proxy http   1 2 3 4 8181

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I ve just had a very similar problem  where I couldn t get npm to work behind our proxy server   My username is of the form  domain username  - including the slash in the proxy configuration resulted in a forward slash appearing  So entering this   npm config set proxy  http   domain username password servername port     then running this npm config get proxy returns this  http   domain username password servername port   Therefore to fix the problem I instead URL encoded the backslash  so entered this   npm config set proxy  http   domain 5Cusername password servername port     and with this the proxy access was fixed

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To expand on  Steve Roberts answer       My username is of the form  domain username  - including the slash in   the proxy configuration resulted in a forward slash appearing  So   entering this   npm config set proxy  http   domain username password servername port      I also had to URL encode my domain user string  however  I have a space inside my username so I put a   to encode the space URL encoding  but it would get double encoded as  2B  which is the URL encoding for the plus sign  however the URL encoding for a space is  20   so I had to instead do the following   npm command     option one     it works for some packages npm config set http proxy  http   DOMAIN 5Cuser name password x x x x port  npm config set proxy  http   DOMAIN 5Cuser name password x x x x port      option two    it works best for me    please notice that I actually used a space     instead of URL encode it with        20   OR  2B  plus url encoded  npm config set http proxy  http   DOMAIN 5Cuser name password x x x x port  npm config set proxy  http   DOMAIN 5Cuser name password x x x x port      option two  B  as of 2019-06-01    no DOMAIN    instead of URL encode it with        20   OR  2B  plus url encoded  npm config set http proxy  http   user name password x x x x port  npm config set proxy  http   user name password x x x x port    troubleshooting npm config  I used the npm config list to get the parsed values that I  had set above  and that is how I found out about the double encoding  Weird   Essentially you must figure out the following requirements    Is a DOMAIN string required for authentication Do you need to encode special characters    Spaces and at     signs are specially challenging     Regards   WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES  CMD Prompt   Update  Turns out that even with the above configurations  I still had some issues with some packages scripts that use Request - Simplified HTTP client internally to download stuff  So  as the above readme explained  we can specify environment variables to set the proxy on the command line  and Request will honor those values    Then  after  and I am reluctant to admit this  several tries  more like days   of trying to set the environment variables I finally succeeded with the following guidelines   rem notice that the value after the   has no quotations rem    - I believe that if quotations are placed after it  they become rem    part of the value  you do not want that rem notice that there is no space before or after the   sign rem     - if you leave a space before it  you will be declaring a variable  rem     name that includes such space  you do not want to do that rem     - if you leave a space after it  you will be including the space rem     as part of the value  you do not want that either rem looks like there is no need to URL encode stuff in there SET HTTP PROXY http   DOMAIN user name password x x x x port SET HTTPS PROXY http   DOMAIN user name password x x x x port   cntlm  I used the above technique for a few weeks  untill I realized the overhead of updating my password across all the tools that needed the proxy setup   Besides npm  I also use    bower vagrant   virtual box  running linux  apt-get  linux   git vscode brackets atom tsd   cntlm Setup Steps  So  I installed cntlm  Setting cntlm is pretty stright forward  you look for the ini file   C  Program Files Cntlm cntlm ini   Open C  Program Files Cntlm cntlm ini  you may need admin rights  look for Username and Domain lines  line 8-9 I think    add your username add your domain  On cmd prompt run      cd C  Program Files Cntlm  cntlm -M cntlm -H       you will be asked for the password      cygwin warning     MS-DOS style path detected  C  Program Files Cntlm cntlm ini    Preferred POSIX equivalent is   Cntlm cntlm ini    CYGWIN environment variable option  nodosfilewarning  turns off this warning     Consult the user s guide for more details about POSIX paths       http   cygwin com cygwin-ug-net using html using-pathnames  Password    The output you get from cntlm -H will look something like    PassLM          561DF6AF15D5A5ADG   PassNT          A1D651A5F15DFA5AD   PassNTLMv2      A1D65F1A65D1ASD51    Only for user  user name   domain  DOMAIN      It is recomended that you use PassNTLMv2 so add a   before line PassLM and PassNT or do not use them  Paste the output from cntlm -H on the ini file replacing the lines for PassLM  PassNT and PassNTMLv2  or comment the original lines and add yours  Add your Proxy servers  If you do not know what the proxy server is    Do what I did  I looked for my proxy auto-config file by looking for the AutoConfigURL Registry key in HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Internet Settings  Navigate to that url and look through the code which happens to be JavaScript   Optionaly you can change the port where cntlm listens to by changing the Listen         line  where      is the port number    Setup NPM with cntlm  So  you point npm to your cntml proxy  you can use the ip  I used localhost and the default port for cntlm 3128 so my proxy url looks like this     http   localhost 3128   With the proper command      npm config set proxy http   localhost 3128   Is a lot simpler  You setup all your tools with that same url  and you only update the password on one place  Life is so much simpler not   Must Setup The npm CA certificate  From the npm documentation ca  If your corporate proxy is intercepting https connections with its own Self Signed Certificate  this is a must to avoid npm config set strict-ssl false  big no-no    Basic steps   Get the certificate from your browser  Chromes works well   Export it as Base-64 encoded X 509   CER  Replace new lines with  n Edit your  npmrc add a line ca    -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- nXXXX nXXXX n-----END CERTIFICATE-----    Issues  I have noticed tha sometimes npm kind of hangs  so I stop  sometimes forcefully  cntlm and restart it

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You will get the proxy host and port from your server administrator or support   After that set up  npm config set http proxy http   username password proxyofmycomp com itsport npm config set proxy http   username password proxyofmycomp com itsport   If there any special character in password try with   urlencode  Eg - pound hash  shuold be replaced by  23   This worked for me

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OS  Windows 7  Steps which worked for me     npm config get proxy   npm config get https-proxy   Comments  I executed this command to know my proxy settings npm config rm proxy   npm config rm https-proxy npm config set registry http   registry npmjs org  npm install

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Use below command at cmd or GIT Bash or other prompt    npm config set proxy  http   192 168 1 101 4128     npm config set https-proxy  http   192 168 1 101 4128    where 192 168 1 101 is proxy ip and 4128 is port  change according to your proxy settings

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From a little search on google the first thing I tried was this  npm config set registry http   registry npmjs org  npm config set proxy  your proxy  npm config set https-proxy  your proxy    But still npm seemed to lose connection when trying to do  npm install s  then I ran this line in command prompt and now I can use npm install   set NODE TLS REJECT UNAUTHORIZED 0

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At work we use ZScaler as our proxy  The only way I was able to get npm to work was to use Cntlm    See this answer   NPM behind NTLM proxy

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Just create a file named .npmrc file in a your project folder ,it will avoid proxy setting at system level

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