Download fails behind corporate proxy

[frankenpfalzer]

After upgrading from 1.9.14 to 1.11.1 the download of the princexml package fails with following exception:

.../prince@1.11.1/node_modules/prince install$ node ./prince-npm.js install
.../prince@1.11.1/node_modules/prince install: ++ checking for globally installed PrinceXML
.../prince@1.11.1/node_modules/prince install: ++ downloading PrinceXML distribution
.../prince@1.11.1/node_modules/prince install: -- using proxy ($http_proxy): http://www.example.com:80
.../prince@1.11.1/node_modules/prince install: -- download: https://www.princexml.com/download/prince-15.2-alpine3.17-x86_64.tar.gz
.../prince@1.11.1/node_modules/prince install: (node:507) Warning: Setting the NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED environment variable to '0' makes TLS connections and HTTPS requests insecure by disabling certificate verification.
.../prince@1.11.1/node_modules/prince install: (Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
.../prince@1.11.1/node_modules/prince install: ** ERROR: failed to download: download failed: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:443
.../prince@1.11.1/node_modules/prince install: Done

We also tried to set the proxy configuration via npm config set proxy "http://www.example.com:80". https-proxy and noproxy were set too.

Upgrading to 1.10.0 produces the same exception.

Our used environment:

• nodejs: 20.9.0
• pnpm: 8.10.5
• OS: containerimage based on node:lts-alpine3.17

If you need any further information please let me know.

[rse]

That's not an issue with "prince", but an issue with Node itself. See the line:

node:507) Warning: Setting the NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED environment variable to '0' makes TLS connections and HTTPS requests insecure by disabling certificate verification.

Node cannot verify the SSL/TLS connection. The workaround is also given (setting the environment variable!).

[frankenpfalzer]

The environment variable was already set (Btw. which was the reason for the warning). Even unsetting does not change the exception. After googleing a while, it seems that axios has sometimes several problems with corporate proxies. That would match to our case. After switching from request to axios the download does not work anymore.