isaacs/npm — Issue #1990: Error Fetching registry : express
Author: briglx
Created: 2012-01-04 21:54:40+00:00
State: open

I ran the command
npm install express

And received the following:
```npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/express
npm ERR! Error: failed to fetch from registry: express
npm ERR! at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/get.js:139:12
npm ERR! at cb (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:32:9)
npm ERR! at Request._callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:137:18)
npm ERR! at Request.callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:104:22)
npm ERR! at Request. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:181:58)
npm ERR! at Request.emit (events.js:88:20)
npm ERR! at ClientRequest. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:178:10)
npm ERR! at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! at CleartextStream. (http.js:1174:13)
npm ERR! at CleartextStream.emit (events.js:88:20)
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
npm ERR!
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.38-13-generic-pae
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "express"
npm ERR! cwd /home/brlamore/workspace/Byllis/src
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.6
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.0-beta-4
npm ERR! message failed to fetch from registry: express
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/brlamore/workspace/Byllis/src/npm-debug.log
npm not ok
```

When I navigate to the page I see:

> This webpage is not available
> The webpage at https://registry.npmjs.org/express might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
> Error 113 (net::ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH): Unknown error.

There are no problems going to the unsecure site http://registry.npmjs.org/express