title: bower install self_signed_cert_in_chain
body: <p>I am building a angular app in windows, using git bash, so far I have been able to scaffold using yo, no issues, however when I am trying to issue the following command. Can someone please point me to resolve this issue.</p>
  
  <p>bower install angular-bootstrap</p>
  
  <p>I am getting the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>bower error         Request to https://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/angular-reso
  urce failed: SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN
  
  Stack trace:
  Error: Request to https://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/angular-resource failed:
  SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN
      at createError (c:\Users\arusarka\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\nod
  e_modules\bower-registry-client\lib\util\createError.js:2:15)
      at Request._callback (c:\Users\arusarka\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bow
  er\node_modules\bower-registry-client\lib\lookup.js:97:29)
      at self.callback (c:\Users\arusarka\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\n
  ode_modules\request\request.js:129:22)
      at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
      at Request.request.emit (c:\Users\arusarka\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\
  bower\node_modules\bower-registry-client\node_modules\request-replay\index.js:69
  :33)
      at ClientRequest.self.clientErrorHandler (c:\Users\arusarka\AppData\Roaming\
  npm\node_modules\bower\node_modules\request\request.js:239:10)
      at ClientRequest.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
      at CleartextStream.socketErrorListener (http.js:1528:9)
      at CleartextStream.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
      at SecurePair.&lt;anonymous&gt; (tls.js:1368:19)
  </code></pre>