docs: function getRequestOptions(conf) {
    const strictSSL = conf.get('strict-ssl');
  
    let options = {
      uri: downloadUrl,
      encoding: null, // Get response as a buffer
      followRedirect: true, // The default download path redirects to a CDN URL.
      headers: {},
      strictSSL: strictSSL
    };
  
    let proxyUrl = conf.get('https-proxy') || conf.get('http-proxy') || conf.get('proxy');
    if (proxyUrl) {
  
      // Print using proxy
      let proxy = url.parse(proxyUrl);
      if (proxy.auth) {
        // Mask password
        proxy.auth = proxy.auth.replace(/:.*$/, ':******');
      }
      log.info('Using proxy ' + url.format(proxy));
  
      // Enable proxy
      options.proxy = proxyUrl;
  
      // If going through proxy, use the user-agent string from the npm config
      options.headers['User-Agent'] = conf.get('user-agent');
    }
  
    // Use certificate authority settings from npm
    const ca = conf.get('ca');
    if (ca) {
      log.info('Using npmconf ca');
      options.ca = ca;
    }
  
    return options;
  }