Not able to connect to atom.io for themes and packages

Question

I believe my work proxy is preventing me from being able to add themes and packages to Atom. From the preferences menu, I get:

Fetching featured packages and themes fai

Answer 1

It seems that as of Atom 1.0, there are some components that respect the http-proxy and https-proxy variables, and others that don't. For example, the initial check for the version of Atom works, but the check for packages doesn't seem to respect the http-proxy or https-proxy settings.

I was able to get Atom working with Fiddler as my proxy (on 127.0.0.1:8888) by running the following commands (on Windows):

apm config set proxy http://127.0.0.1:8888
apm config set strict-ssl false

I did not need to set http-proxy or https-proxy. I don't know if these settings have been deprecated or not, but they don't seem to work reliably in 1.0. The setting proxy works (and upgrades itself to TLS 1.2 automatically).

The entirety of my %USERPROFILE%\.atom\.apmrc file is:

strict-ssl=false
proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8888/