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The [documentation](https://github.com/npm/npm-registry-couchapp/blob/master/www/attachments/install.html#L3) mentions a one line install ```curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh```. It may be safer to download via the HTTPS protocol, since http enables main-in-the-middle-attack, and if succeed in this case, it becomes arbitrary execution attack.
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The documentation mentions a one line install command:
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh. It is safer to download via the HTTPS protocol, since http enables main-in-the-middle-attack, and if succeeds in this case, it becomes arbitrary execution attack.