Error in "RemoteFilesystem.php". The "https://ift.tt/JZTrZY" file could not be downloaded

When running "composer require foo/bar" I got the following error in the terminal:

In RemoteFilesystem.php line 515:

The "https://packagist.org/packages.json" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: Unable to find the socket transport "proxy_user_name" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

I'm using a VPN but it's still referring to my proxy credentials which is supposed to not see because of the VPN.

When running "composer diagnose" I get this:

Lolo@lolo:/media/lolo/project_path/project_name$ composer diagnose Checking composer.json: OK Checking platform settings: OK Checking git settings: OK Checking http connectivity to packagist: WARNING

[Composer\Downloader\TransportException] The "http://packagist.org/packages.json" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: Unable to find the socket transport "foobar" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

Checking https connectivity to packagist: WARNING [Composer\Downloader\TransportException] The "https://packagist.org/packages.json" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: Unable to find the socket transport "foobar" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

Checking HTTP proxy: FAIL [Composer\Downloader\TransportException] The "https://packagist.org/packages.json" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: Unable to find the socket transport "foobar" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

Checking HTTP proxy support for request_fulluri: WARNING Unable to assess the situation, maybe packagist.org is down (The "http://packagist.org/packages.json" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: Unable to find the socket transport "foobar" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)

Checking HTTPS proxy support for request_fulluri: WARNING

Unable to assess the situation, maybe github is down (The "https://api.github.com/repos/Seldaek/jsonlint/zipball/1.0.0" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: Unable to find the socket transport "foobar" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?) Checking github.com rate limit: FAIL

[Composer\Downloader\TransportException] The "https://api.github.com/rate_limit" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: Unable to find the socket transport "foobar" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

Checking disk free space: OK Composer version: 1.6.3 PHP version: 7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 PHP binary path: /usr/bin/php7.2

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