How to import a self-signed root cert to npm?

[Jirong Hu]

Our company has WebSense installed and using a self-signed root cert, so all my SSL requests going out failed. I fixed the issue by importing that cert into my Java keystore, but how to do this for npm? I suspect the following error is due to this cert. The security dept told me there is no proxy installed.

C:\OTPPB2015\Workspace\JavaScript\scapegoat>npm install mocha --save-dev

npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601

npm ERR! argv "C:\\Tools\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Tools\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js"

"install" "mocha" "--save-dev"

npm ERR! node v4.1.1

npm ERR! npm  v2.14.4

npm ERR! code ECONNREFUSED

npm ERR! errno ECONNREFUSED

npm ERR! syscall connect

npm ERR! Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 172.21.85.31:80

npm ERR!     at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:837:11)

npm ERR!     at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:860:20)

npm ERR!     at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1060:14)

npm ERR!  { [Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 172.21.85.31:80]

npm ERR!   code: 'ECONNREFUSED',

npm ERR!   errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',

npm ERR!   syscall: 'connect',

npm ERR!   address: '172.21.85.31',

npm ERR!   port: 80,

npm ERR!   parent: 'scapegoat' }

npm ERR!

npm ERR! If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the

npm ERR! 'proxy' config is set properly.  See: 'npm help config'

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:

npm ERR!     C:\OTPPB2015\Workspace\JavaScript\scapegoat\npm-debug.log

[Aria Stewart]

> On Oct 19, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Jirong Hu <jiro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Our company has WebSense installed and using a self-signed root cert, so all my SSL requests going out failed. I fixed the issue by importing that cert into my Java keystore, but how to do this for npm? I suspect the following error is due to this cert. The security dept told me there is no proxy installed.

Nope -- ECONNREFUSED would be before SSL is even negotiated.

But if you have a proxy configured, but no longer installed, this error would result.