Today when using IntelliJ (MacOS) & Spring Boot to create a new project, I started seeing this error:
" Initialization failed for 'https://start.spring.io' Please check URL, network and proxy settings
Error Message: Error parsing JSON response "
My home network has no HTTP proxy settings, just plain vanilla Internet. IntelliJ / Preferences / System Settings / HTTP Proxy / Check Network Settings: says network connection is ok. And this same setup worked here 2 days ago.
Browser connection to https://start.spring.io also works.
I tried Googling this issue, but mostly found HTTP Proxy setting issues that I don't have (I am typing this w/o HTTP Proxy settings in browser :-)).
Maybe this is just a transient issue with start.spring.io? or ... ? Anyways confusing.
It looks like Spring Initializr is broken for both IntelliJ IDEA and Spring Tools Suite, I reported this to the initialzr project: