Unable to Install Visual Studio Code Extensions

Question

I raised this as an issue on the VSCode github

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I just installed Visual Studio Code to try it out, but I ran into a problem almost immediately when trying to install any extension (following this).

After pressing ctrl + p or F1 and then typing Extension and selecting Install, the program appears to search for a while. However, after a few seconds to a minute I see this error:

Error getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND marketplace.visualstudio.com marketplace.visualstudio.com:443

And if I click out of the window before this message appears:

Error socket hang up

Has anyone else seen the same error and managed to overcome?

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As mentioned in the comments, this seems to be discussed here. However, I can't apply any of the suggested fixes:

• Changing .host to .hostname in the file src/vs/workbench/node/proxy.ts : I can't find this file on my system.

• Changing the same (.host to .hostname) in the file C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\electron-main\sharedProcessMain.js : I can't find the folder electron-main or the file sharedProcessMain.js on my machine.

• Changing SSLStrict to true

Answer 1

change DNSs to (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4)

Answer 2

I was able to install some extensions after my network admin disabled SSL Inspection on my machine.

This is not ideal as I wouldn't want this turned off for everything.

After re-enabling inspection, I set my User Settings to

"http.proxyStrictSSL": true

I am still unable to download packages, but this does appear to be the problem.