Fatal error: connect ETIMEDOUT

[emkayy]

Hi there,

when I try to run the realFavicon grunt task, I'm getting the following error

Running "realFavicon:favicons" (realFavicon) task
Generating "src/favicon/logo.png" favicon...Fatal error: connect ETIMEDOUT 5.196.181.96:80

Why does it have to connect to any server? What server is it?
I'm behind a corporate firewall, maybe that's the problem?

Any suggestions how I can fix this?

[phbernard]

Hi,

The service is RealFaviconGenertor's. The icons are generated through an API.

There was no issue recently, so I don't see why the service would have failed that way.

Because this is the very same site you visited in the first place (https://realfavicongenerator.net/) with your browser, your firewall shouldn't block it. However, if it is tricky enough, it might block is. For example, the API client doesn't use a regular user agent string (ie. its neither Chrome, nor Firefox, etc.). If you have a good support team, I suggest you to ask them.

Does this help?

[Huntedpix]

Hi,

I've the same issue here.

Running "realFavicon:favicons" (realFavicon) task
Generating "src/img/favicons/master.png" favicon...Fatal error: connect ETIMEDOUT 5.196.181.96:443

Unfortunately, the Firewall team in my company will not allow it.

Is there a way to set a proxy settings via the options ?

[phbernard]

There is no such option in the plugin, sorry.

Is there a global proxy setting for Node or Grunt? After all, this is a common case and you want your whole environment to use the same proxy.

[Huntedpix]

Hi !

There is a global proxy setting for NPM, but I haven't found any for Node or Grunt.

But your comment give me some new idea and I've found a solution to make your plugin work ! :)

I install this node module (not global install): https://github.com/np-maintain/global-tunnel

Then I set at the beginning of my Gruntfile.js the module.

var globalTunnel = require('global-tunnel-ng')
globalTunnel.initialize({
  host: 'proxy',
  port: 8080
})

So every outside call from Node is using my corporate proxy and your plugin work.

Thanks for the idea !

@emkayy I hope this will help you too ;)