Install components via Bower without SSL in ASP.NET 5 Starter Web project

Question

Due to corporate proxy issues I am unable to download components via Bower using https.

I know that normally you can get around this by adding

"registry": "http://bower.herokuapp.com"

to the .bowerrc file, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Please note that I haven't had Bower installed locally (as I am not intended to). I got bower.json from using the new ASP.NET 5 starter Web Project which has popular tools like Grunt and Bower built-in.

I wonder where this file is, or if there is any other way to replace https with http in the download url?

Update I had to create the .bowerrc file manually and placed it inside the project root.

{
    "directory": "wwwroot",
    "registry": "http://bower.herokuapp.com"
}

Make sure you have wwwroot there as the directory. Doing this the output will now show with http.

However, this still doesn't resolve my problem - Bower still cannot download anything, nor can nuget. This is really strange 'cause if I create a normal web project using VS2015, nuget works fine...

Answer 1

The .bowerrc file can be located in one of the following:

• Local .bowerrc located in the current working directory
• All .bowerrc files upwards the directory tree
• .bowerrc file located in user’s home folder (%USERPROFILE%)
• bowerrc (without the dot) file located in %APPDATA%/bower/config

But setting the bower registry URL is probably not enough as bower will still need the https protocol in order to fetch package content from Github.