title: i am having issues installing laravel
body: <p>I am having issues installing laravel. I have followed the first two methods, <code>(composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1") and (composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist)</code> on this <a href="http://laravel.com/docs/installation" rel="nofollow">site</a> and they failed.
  I guess upon looking through the forums i need to output my result for compose diag......</p>
  
  <pre><code>Checking platform settings: OK
  Checking git settings: OK
  Checking http connectivity: OK
  Checking HTTP proxy: OK
  Checking HTTP proxy support for request_fulluri: FAIL
  Unable to assert the situation, maybe packagist.org is down (The "http://packagist.org/packages.json" file could not be downloaded (HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request))
  Checking HTTPS proxy support for request_fulluri: OK
  Checking disk free space: OK
  Checking composer version: OK
  </code></pre>
  
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  <li>I want to know why i cannot install laravel with these two methods.</li>
  <li>I am using a proxy. Yes. But i don't know what reques_fulluri means and what it does.</li>
  </ol>