Julia 1.6 corporate firewall `could not download https://pkg.julialang.org/registries`

[oheil]

Perhaps:

ENV["JULIA_SSL_NO_VERIFY_HOSTS"] = "julialang.org"

or similar like

ENV["JULIA_SSL_NO_VERIFY_HOSTS"] = "pkg.julialang.org"

from this thread:

Julia 1.6 libcurl firewall download issue: Windows Schannel certificate revocation check failure

In Julia 1.5.3, I had https-proxy, http_proxy, html_proxy, SSL_CERT_FILE set in the environment variables. I also had a _curlrc file with “insecure” in it in my home directory as well as a .condarc to get things working through our firewall. The SSL_CERT_FILE pointed to a .PEM file. I know little about what this all means. In Julia 1.6, I was told by the system that I needed to remove the SSL_CERT_FILE and not have a JULIA_SSL_CA_ROOTS_PATH set to anything. In 1.6, that seems to work for m…