title: "message failed to fetch from registry" while trying to install any module
body: <p>I can't install any node module from the npm.</p>
  
  <pre><code>npm install socket.io
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The above command resulted to below output, it is not able to install socket.io</p>
  
  <pre><code>npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io
  
  npm ERR! Error: failed to fetch from registry: socket.io
  npm ERR!     at /opt/node0610/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/get.js:139:12
  npm ERR!     at cb (/opt/node0610/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:32:9)
  npm ERR!     at Request._callback (/opt/node0610/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:137:18)
  npm ERR!     at Request.callback (/opt/node0610/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:109:22)
  npm ERR!     at Request.&lt;anonymous&gt; (/opt/node0610/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:198:58)
  npm ERR!     at Request.emit (events.js:88:20)
  npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.&lt;anonymous&gt; (/opt/node0610/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:195:10)
  npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:67:17)
  npm ERR!     at CleartextStream.&lt;anonymous&gt; (http.js:1134:11)
  npm ERR!     at CleartextStream.emit (events.js:67:17)
  npm ERR! You may report this log at:
  npm ERR!     &lt;http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues&gt;
  npm ERR! or email it to:
  npm ERR!     &lt;npm-@googlegroups.com&gt;
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.18-194.el5
  npm ERR! command "node" "/opt/node0610/bin/npm" "install" "socket.io"
  npm ERR! cwd /opt/node0610/lib/node_modules
  npm ERR! node -v v0.6.10
  npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.0-3
  npm ERR! message failed to fetch from registry: socket.io
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
  npm ERR!     /opt/node0610/lib/node_modules/npm-debug.log
  npm not ok
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My NPM Version is :</p>
  
  <pre><code>[applmgr@dev node_modules]$ npm --version
  1.1.0-3
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My NodeJS Version is :</p>
  
  <pre><code>[applmgr@dev node_modules]$ node --version
  v0.6.10
  </code></pre>