Fixing Bower behind a corporate firewall

Our company uses software to intercept and inspect encrypted packets (like many other corporate entities). As a result, there are self-signed certificates added to the packets. This creates a problem with many package managers like npm and bower.

If you're looking to get started quickly with bower in your .NET application in Visual Studio, simply put a .bowerrc file with the following contents in the root of your project (next to, say, your web.config):

{ "strict-ssl": false }