How to get around the Cloud 9 IDE Heroku error “Are you behind a proxy?” upon running $ heroku login

Sean Manning
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

The error:

$ heroku login
Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email:
Password (typing will be hidden):
▸ HTTP Error: https://api.heroku.com/login1 400 Bad Request
▸ Invalid response from API.
▸ HTTP 400
▸ {}

▸ Are you behind a proxy?
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/using-the-cli#using-an-http-proxy

The reason why you are seeing the error:

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/193

The solution:

wget -qO- https://cli-assets.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh

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