title: Unable to download & install Laravel 5 with composer. Error: HTTP request failed
body: <p>I'm not able to download lavarvel installer using composer 1.2.0 (latest version)
  The error received: Failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!
  I googled and could not find the answer to fix this to problem.</p>
  
  <p>If possible, someone please try to run this command <code>composer global require "laravel/installer"</code> to check if it works? I think the link to packaglist is no longer valid but I'm not sure.</p>
  
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  <pre><code>C:\wamp\www\st&gt;composer self-update -vvv
  Reading ./composer.json
  Loading config file ./composer.json
  Checked CA file C:\Users\Louis\AppData\Local\Temp\composer-cacert-bcf331364fef73d53e4368ba519a6c3fcb21ea7836c3d8efad4ec32731e8152a.pem: valid
  Executing command (C:\wamp\www\st): git branch --no-color --no-abbrev -v
  Executing command (C:\wamp\www\st): git describe --exact-match --tags
  Executing command (C:\wamp\www\st): git log --pretty="%H" -n1 HEAD
  Reading C:/Users/Louis/AppData/Roaming/Composer/composer.json
  Loading config file C:/Users/Louis/AppData/Roaming/Composer/composer.json
  Running 1.2.0 (2016-07-19 01:28:52) with PHP 5.5.12 on Windows NT / 6.2
  You are running composer with xdebug enabled. This has a major impact on runtime performance. See https://getcomposer.org/xdebug
  Downloading https://getcomposer.org/versions
  You are already using composer version 1.2.0 (stable channel).
  </code></pre>