title: HTTP None None for url <https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/win-64/repodata.json.bz2>
body: <p>I am trying to do a </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>conda update conda</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>C:\Users****>conda update conda
  Fetching package metadata ...
  CondaHTTPError: HTTP None None for url <a href="https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/win-64/repodata.json.bz2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/win-64/repodata.json.bz2</a>
  Elapsed: None</p>
  
  <p>An HTTP error occurred when trying to retrieve this URL.
  HTTP errors are often intermittent, and a simple retry will get you on your way.
  ConnectTimeout(MaxRetryError("HTTPSConnectionPool(host='repo.continuum.io', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /pkgs/free/win-64/repodata.json.bz2 (Caused by ConnectTimeoutError(, 'Connection to repo.continuum.io timed out. (connect timeout=9.15)'))",),)</p>
  
  <p>my conda info is:</p>
  
  <p>Current conda install:</p>
  
  <pre><code>           platform : win-64
        conda version : 4.3.21
     conda is private : False
    conda-env version : 4.3.21
  conda-build version : not installed
       python version : 3.6.1.final.0
     requests version : 2.14.2
     root environment : C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3  (writable)
  default environment : C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3
     envs directories : C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\envs
                        C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
                        C:\Users\****\.conda\envs
        package cache : C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\pkgs
                        C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
         channel URLs : https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/win-64
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/win-64
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/noarch
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/win-64
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/noarch
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/msys2/win-64
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/msys2/noarch
          config file : C:\Users\DantuJ\.condarc
           netrc file : None
         offline mode : False
           user-agent : conda/4.3.21 requests/2.14.2 CPython/3.6.1 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.15063
        administrator : False
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>my .condarc file is:</p>
  
  <p><strong>channels:
    - defaults<br>
  ssl_verify: false</strong></p>
  
  <p>How can I fix this issue so that I can use conda to download other packages or even update conda? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>