create maven project error

[saint2014]

Fail to create a project. Error: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0

[saint2014]

can't select springboot version

[doubledevwp]

This is happening to me when trying to create a new project as well.

Is there a certain order or way to create the new project?
My process when trying to do this to test it out:

1. Open VS Code
2. CTRL+SHIFT+P to open the Command Palette
3. Type in Spring Initializr and select the Maven Project option
4. Select Java
5. Keep Group Id as "com.example"
6. Keep "demo" as the Artifact Id
7. Crashes with the error provided by @saint2014

[Eskibear]

Error: Unexpected token < in JSON

It should be probably networking issue. html content is returned by the server instead of JSON string, leading to the parsing error.

[ramya-ramesh]

crashes after entering the artifact Id with error :
Fail to create a project. Error: write EPROTO 2859550504:error:100000f7:SSL routines:OPENSSL_internal:WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER:../../third_party/boringssl/src/ssl/tls_record.cc:242:

[SvenST89]

Hi community! I am encountering similar issues with starting up a maven project. Initially I had version 0.8.0 installed and received the error message that the metadata couldn´t get fetched. Then by this issue here #162 I resolved the problem by lowering the version to 0.4.8.
But now, I am running into the following error:

I think it is a proxy problem as I am working within my company´s network (at home via vpn). But so far I could not figure out how to get it up and running. I even added the proxy to the settings.json file in the extension settings.

Has anybody an idea how I could fix this?

In advance many thanks for your understandings and your efforts!