Does not work behind proxy

[briangabriel]

I can install NativeScript via npm with no issues, but there is no way to configure the http-client with the proper proxy settings.

E:\LocalDev\nativescript>tns create hello-world --log trace
Starting watch on killswitch C:\Users\gabrielb\AppData\Local\Temp\gabrielb\KillSwitches\cli
Creating a new NativeScript project with name hello-world and id org.nativescript.helloworld at location E:\LocalDev\nativescript\hello-world
Using NativeScript hello world application
User-Agent: AppBuilderCLI/0.9.1 (Node.js 0.10.28; win32; x64)
httpRequest: { method: 'GET',
host: 'registry.npmjs.org',
port: null,
path: '/tns-template-hello-world',
headers:
{ Accept: 'application/json; charset=UTF-8, /;q=0.8',
'User-Agent': 'AppBuilderCLI/0.9.1 (Node.js 0.10.28; win32; x64)',
'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip,deflate' } }
httpRequest: Sending:
[nothing]
{ [Error: connect ETIMEDOUT] stack: [Getter] }
Error: connect ETIMEDOUT

[rosen-vladimirov]

Hi @briangabriel
It looks like there's a problem with the http-proxy. Could you try the suggestion from this blog post:
npm config set proxy http://proxy.company.com:8080 for example
Hopefully this will solve the issue.

[briangabriel]

I have no problems with npm, the issue is that the NodePackageManager.getAvailableVersions method calls the npm registry via a straight up HTTP request:

var url = NodePackageManager.NPM_REGISTRY_URL + packageName;
var response = this.$httpClient.httpRequest(url).wait().body;

[rosen-vladimirov]

Hi @briangabriel ,

You are absolutely correct. We are working on adding support for proxy, but meanwhile, can you try one more thing:
Can you try installing this custom package of nativescript-cli. Just download the file and execute:
$ npm i nativescript-0.9.1.tgz -g
After the installation finishes, find the place where nativescript is installed, open <nativescript-cli-dir>\lib\config.js and modify FIDDLER_HOSTNAME to match your proxy.
After that can you try creating new project and adding platforms, so we'll see if this works. Your help is appreciated.
One more thing, the package I've shared is created from this branch, so you can compare it with our latest release branch to see my changes - they are only in the config file.

[rosen-vladimirov]

Hi @briangabriel
In case you have problems with above link (its from dropbox), you can try this one - this time I've uploaded the package directly in github.