Downloading of dynamic templates fails when git is blocked on corporate network

[codewithtyler]

I wanted to load the Contoso Template Pack to see how a specific feature was implemented, so I added it's URL to SideWaffle and told it to download the pack. However, I was soon greeted by two errors:

When I connected to the guest network and tried it again, the download was successful. It appears that our corporate network blocks the git protocol. Since our user base contains developers in both large and small companies, we should probably have a fallback to http/https for situations like this.

[codewithtyler]

@sayedihashimi how does the VS team handle this for cloning projects?

[codewithtyler]

@sayedihashimi I'd like to get your feedback on this. I'd like to have this fixed for the next version of SideWaffle.

[sayedihashimi]

@RandomlyKnighted do you know fix would be required to get this going? If so then we can consider it, if not then no :)

[codewithtyler]

What about using a standard HTTP download as our fallback method?

[sayedihashimi]

@RandomlyKnighted do we have support for http already? If so then users can enter the http url right? Otherwise we can consider adding it. But for a fallback I don't think it makes sense because all git repos don't have http/https support, github does but not all providers.