> I've been working with/on a plugin for talking to github, and I'm
> staring at some fairly complex code for processing proxy information
> from settings.xml, and some slightly less complex code for obtaining
> and decrypting credentials from servers.
>
> Is there a shared component in which I put this? (I don't write
> 'copy', because I'm not the author, and I don't know if he/she will be
> interesting in contributing. If not, I'll make a new one.)
>

I have a dream of, one day, getting a plug-able solution for the server
credentials handling in Maven [1]. As it would affect some plugins as well
as Maven core, it should be a separate lib. Maybe now is a good time to
start to work on this?

[1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5356

/Anders


>
> Relatedly, I ran into the problem of wanting to make an HTTPs
> connection with a host whose key had an intermediate certificate in
> its chain. This led me to a code snippet which installed a truststore
> into the global SSL context. It seemed a trifle off to me that code in
> one plugin could side-effect the global environment to this extent.
> Now, practically, I suppose that it would take a SecurityManager to
> prevent this; that seems a cure worse than the disease, but I wonder
> if others have thought upon it before.
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