All of my .json files have problems loading reference/schema from schemastore.azurewebsites.net

I'm working in VS Code and started getting this error yesterday. All of my json files have this error, not just a few. If I remember right there was an update to the program yesterday or the day before. Did the update break something or reset a setting that I forgot I had set?

When looking this up, people are talking about downloading the schema and using it locally, but I would prefer not to have to do that and would instead like to find out why this broke?

I am using a proxy, but as far as I know that hasn't changed. Here's the exact error I'm getting.

Problems loading reference 'https://schemastore.azurewebsites.net/schemas/json/package.json': Unable to load schema from 'https://schemastore.azurewebsites.net/schemas/json/package.json': Unable to connect to https://schemastore.azurewebsites.net/schemas/json/package.json. Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 168.62.224.13:443

I'm behind my company's proxy which I don't know the details because it's everything automatic, and this problem have bug me for some time.

I'm not sure whether this is an universal solution but according to this issue, the http.proxySupport setting is defaulting to "override". I turn this setting off and the errors disappeared.

    "http.proxySupport": "off"

Open User settings of visual studio code through the command palette:

1. Press F1
2. Type user settings.
3. Select Preferences:Open User Settings from drop down
4. Put below code and modify accordingly

"http.proxy": "http://username:password@hostname:port/",
"http.proxyAuthorization": null,
"http.proxyStrictSSL": true

Just close your VsCode Editor and open it again. That should fix the error.

I was facing following issue with Angular 6:

Problems loading reference 'https://schemastore.azurewebsites.net/schemas/json/package.json': Unable to load schema from 'https://schemastore.azurewebsites.net/schemas/json/package.json': Unable to connect to https://schemastore.azurewebsites.net/schemas/json/package.json. Error: unable to get local issuer certificate

I added following properties at the end of the User Settings File and worked for me:

"http.proxy": "",
"http.proxyAuthorization": null,
"http.proxyStrictSSL": false