Maybe putting proxy information some where ~/.cordova/config.json or npmrc or enviroment variable `http_proxy`
what about handling proxy authentication? proxy = http://domain\\username:password@ip:port or proxy = http://username:password@ip:port reference: http://superuser.com/questions/347476/how-to-install-npm-behind-authentication-proxy-on-windows --Carlos On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Wargo, John <john.wa...@sap.com> wrote: > For weeks now I've been working with the CLI as it goes from version to > version and a few weeks back a problem arose where the lazy load of the > default www project fails or the lazy load of the Android or iOS project. > I've documented this repeatedly, my most recent JIRA ticket is here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4322. > > What's happening is that the CLI is trying to download an archive for some > of the files it needs, but fails somehow. Using -d I can tell a little more > about what is happening, but it is not always clear why its failing. I'm > not sure if the download is not happening or the extraction of the download > is failing, but the end result is that the CLI thinks it already has the > files it needs (when it actually doesn't) because the folder it's looking > for already exists. > > The CLI needs to report whether or not it is able to download the files > and/or report that it's failing on the extraction - then act accordingly. > Checking to see if the folder exists is not a valid check in this case as > if the lazy load fails, the folder the CLI is checking for still exists - > which breaks the process and leaves the CLI in an unworkable state. The > target folder should not be created (or it should be deleted on fail) > unless the files have been extracted to it. > > This particular problem is affecting my entire team, there are many of us > here being affected by this. I thought at first that this must be a proxy > problem, but I've now gotten back to my home office and I'm experiencing > the exact same problem on my Mac Mini which isn't using a proxy and has no > proxy settings. I've experienced this problem on our company network as > well as in two different hotel networks and now my home office network. > This is with three different computers on 4 different networks. > > On my MacBook and my windows laptop, I've configured npm and git with the > appropriate proxy settings for my work network to no avail. With or without > the settings, it fails. > > Two of my colleagues (in England and Germany) are experiencing the same > problems; they're on different networks and have different proxy servers. > They were able to get around this by manually forcing the proxy setting in > the lazyload.js file: > > request.get({uri:url, proxy:'http://some_proxy_server:8080'}, > function(err, req, body) { size = body.length; }) > > I would prefer to not have to modify the code to make this work. > Unfortunately, the end result is our developers are ready to give up on the > CLI since we can't make it work reliably simply for creating new projects > or adding platforms to existing projects (both use lazy load). > > Is there a recommended fix for this? Anything I can do to help document > this better? > > John M. Wargo > Twitter: @johnwargo > > -- Carlos Santana <csantan...@gmail.com>