Corporate Proxy Blocks npm Optional-Dependency Downloads, Breaking CI Builds
A developer's GitHub build fails with a 404 fetching an npm package, caused by a corporate proxy (Artifactory/Xray) download-blocking policy rejecting optional platform binaries. The failure is opaque and hard to diagnose from the CI log alone, a recurring issue for teams behind restrictive package registries.
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