title: Laravel 4.1 installation with composer in xampp
body: <p>I wanted to try out the <code>Laravel 4.1</code> but unfortunately got stuck at the very beginning. When i try to install it using <code>composer</code> as mentioned in the <code>Laravel 4.1 documentation</code>, i get the following <code>error</code> while running <code>"composer create-project laravel/laravel laravelProject --prefer-dist":</code></p>
  
  <p><code>[Composer\Downloader\TransportException]</code>
  The "<a href="http://packagist.org/p/illuminate/filesystem" rel="noreferrer">http://packagist.org/p/illuminate/filesystem</a>$a5912ddb14272c0efa16e821a25bb68e39d3bac736aee7de62cb5641fd7133e3.json" file could not be downloaded:
   failed to open stream: <code>HTTP</code> request failed!</p>