Hey, I just removed my 1.5.3 julia to install the new 1.6 on a window machine behind a proxy. For some reasons Pkg cannot download artifacts anymore: (@v1.6) pkg> add Distributions Updating registry at `C:\Users\u009192\.julia\registries\General` Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaR…

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

Libcurl does not have any way to read .curlrc files — those files only apply to the command-line tool, not the library. See this StackOverflow answer by the author of curl and libcurl. Have you tried setting export JULIA_SSL_NO_VERIFY=** in the shell?

I used environnement variables as described in this post Julia 1.6 libcurl firewall download issue: Windows Schannel certificate revocation check failure - #17 by lrnv and it finally worked.

Julia 1.6: using curl behind proxy for artifacts downloads on windows

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Julia 1.6: using curl behind proxy for artifacts downloads on windows

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