conda update and conda install not working. HTTP error while trying to retrieve this URL

[Abhi-1729]

I am not able to install any package or even update conda.

I have retied installing it multiple times and also I tried updating the anaconda-navigator as well. Still getting the same error.

Getting the following error:

(C:\Anaconda) C:\Users\av8>conda update conda
Fetching package metadata ...
CondaHTTPError: HTTP None None for url <https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/win-
64/repodata.json.bz2>
Elapsed: None

An HTTP error occurred when trying to retrieve this URL.
HTTP errors are often intermittent, and a simple retry will get you on your way.

ConnectTimeout(MaxRetryError("HTTPSConnectionPool(host='repo.continuum.io', port
=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /pkgs/free/win-64/repodata.json.bz2 (Cause
d by ConnectTimeoutError(<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConn
ection object at 0x0000000005540E48>, 'Connection to repo.continuum.io timed out
. (connect timeout=9.15)'))",),)

SYSTEM INFO:

(C:\Anaconda) C:\Users\av8>conda info -a
Current conda install:

           platform : win-64
      conda version : 4.3.21
   conda is private : False
  conda-env version : 4.3.21
conda-build version : not installed
     python version : 3.6.1.final.0
   requests version : 2.14.2
   root environment : C:\Anaconda  (writable)
default environment : C:\Anaconda
   envs directories : C:\Anaconda\envs
                      C:\Users\av8\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
                      C:\Users\av8\.conda\envs
      package cache : C:\Anaconda\pkgs
                      C:\Users\av8\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
       channel URLs : https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/win-64
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/win-64
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/noarch
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/win-64
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/noarch
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/msys2/win-64
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/msys2/noarch
        config file : C:\Users\av8\.condarc
         netrc file : None
       offline mode : False
         user-agent : conda/4.3.21 requests/2.14.2 CPython/3.6.1 Windows/7 W

indows/6.1.7601
administrator : True

conda environments:

root * C:\Anaconda

sys.version: 3.6.1 |Anaconda 4.4.0 (64-bit)| (default...
sys.prefix: C:\Anaconda
sys.executable: C:\Anaconda\python.exe
conda location: C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda
conda-build: None
conda-env: C:\Anaconda\Scripts\conda-env.exe
conda-server: C:\Anaconda\Scripts\conda-server.exe
user site dirs:

[Abhi-1729]

Update: Solved the issue.

Defined the proxy in the .condarc file.

[anitakh1]

how??

[ashukrishna100]

I recently got this issue resolved. Use this command to see proxy_servers
conda config --show

If any proxy server is present in the configuration. Kindly use
conda config --remove-key proxy_servers. It will remove saved proxy servers from anaconda configuration.
Enter
conda clean --source-cache
Now your http error is gone.
Give it a try and let me know in case of any difficulty.