400 Error on publishing to a chart deployed gitlab in kubernetes

Summary

Publishing to a privately hosted gitlab EE project via NPM returns a 400 error.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Configure the .npmrc @CustomName:registry=https://gitlab.cm.dev/api/v4/packages/npm/ //gitlab.cm.dev/api/v4/packages/npm/:_authToken={token} //gitlab.cm.dev/api/v4/projects/{project_id}/packages/npm/:_authToken={token}

  2. Configure package.json "name": "@customName/projectName" "publishConfig": { "@CustomName:registry": "https://gitlab.cm.dev/api/v4/projects/{project_id}/packages/npm/" }

What is the current bug behavior?

Error: 400 Bad Request - PUT https://gitlab.cm.dev/api/v4/projects/{project_id}/packages/npm/@customName%2fprojectName

What is the expected correct behavior?

Successful push