Topic: windows

Node TLS errors behind antivirus or a proxy

When npm, fetch or gcloud fail TLS verification on one machine only, something is intercepting HTTPS and re-signing it. How to see whose certificate you are being handed, why Node ignores the Windows store by default, and the one flag that fixes it safely.

CRLF line endings on Windows and Node

Git Bash tools on Windows read files in text mode and hide carriage returns, so grep reports zero CRLFs in a CRLF file and string replacements that span lines never match. How to detect line endings reliably with Node, and a read-normalise-replace-restore pattern that keeps files consistent.