I believe there is a ticket that was closed in one of the big close-all-old-tickets efforts. Someone then commented on that ticket that it was still a problem in a newer Maven version and I asked him to create a new ticket. Not sure if he did so or not.
/Anders (mobile) Den 6 okt 2015 13:48 skrev "Benson Margulies" <bimargul...@gmail.com>: > I'm getting more than a little weary of Maven going to download an > artifact, receiving some HTML error page, and storing that as the > artifact, instead of treating the inappropriate HTTP content type as > equivalent to NOT FOUND. Is there a JIRA for this, to anyone's > knowledge? I'm frustrated enough to work on it. > > > ------ > [INFO] [ERROR] Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-source-plugin:2.3 > or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read > artifact descriptor for > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-source-plugin:jar:2.3: 1 problem was > encountered while building the effective model > [INFO] [ERROR] [FATAL] Non-parseable POM > > /home/benson/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-source-plugin/2.3/maven-source-plugin-2.3.pom: > entity reference name can not contain character =' (position: > START_TAG seen > ...ven/plugins/maven-source-plugin/2.3/maven-source-plugin-2.3.pom&t=... > @1:214) @ line 1, column 214 > > cat > /home/benson/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-source-plugin/2.3/maven-source-plugin-2.3.pom > <html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh" > content="0;url= > http://searchguide.level3.com/search/?q=http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-source-plugin/2.3/maven-source-plugin-2.3.pom&t=0 > "/></head><body><script>window.location=" > http://searchguide.level3.com/search/?q= > "+escape(window.location)+"&r="+escape(document.referrer)+"&t=0";</script></body></html>% > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >