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Wendy Smoak commented on MRM-1181:
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I can reproduce this in 1.3. For me it happens when a repository the user does
_not_ have access to contains the full or partial groupId path.
For example:
imbrium:Downloads wsmoak$ wget --user=build --password=bu1Ld
http://localhost:8765/archiva/repository/all/com/example/doesnotexist/1.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
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http://localhost:8765/archiva/repository/all/com/example/doesnotexist/1.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1, ::1
Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:8765... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Reusing existing connection to localhost:8765.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Authorization failed.
will happen if
- the 'all' repo group contains internal, snapshots, and another
- the 'build' user does not have access to the 'another' repository
- the 'another' repository has, at minimum, a 'com' subdirectory. It could
have com/example or even contain other artifacts in the com.example group or
below.
The fact that Archiva says 401 when the artifact is nowhere in any of its
repositories causes confusing results as Maven blacklists the repo and reports
a bunch of *other* artifacts missing (that really are present.)
The only time I would think the 401 is appropriate is if the 'another'
repository actually contained the artifact being requested. And even then I'm
not sure it's worth being technically correct when it's going to cause Maven to
blacklist the repo and not be able to retrieve other things that the user may
be authorized to see.
> HTTP 401 - Unauthorized is Returned when Accessing Artifact from Repository
> Group if the User Doesn't Have Access to All Repositories in the Group
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>
> Key: MRM-1181
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRM-1181
> Project: Archiva
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Users/Security
> Affects Versions: 1.2
> Environment: Archiva 1.2; Tomcat 6.0.16; JRE 1.6.0_06-b02
> Reporter: Scott Seiter
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.4
>
>
> When trying to access an artifact via a repository group, Archiva returns
> 'HTTP 401 - Unauthorized' when the artifact can't be found in the set of
> repositories the user has access to and there is at least 1 repository in the
> repository group the user doesn't have permission to access.
> In this case it may be more logical to return an HTTP 404 instead of an HTTP
> 401.
> On the client machine, Maven responds to the 401 with (where the repository
> group name is group-repo-name):
> [WARNING] repository metadata for: 'artifact
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin' could not be retrieved from
> repository: group-repo-name due to an error: Error transferring file
> [INFO] Repository 'group-repo-name' will be blacklisted
> By the way, the artifact being requested is
> http://maven.co.myorganization.org/archiva/repository/group-repo-name/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-checkstyle-plugin/2.2/maven-checkstyle-plugin-2.2.pom.
> Another note, the wire trace shows that the client requests the resource 20
> times and receives 20 HTTP 401 messages from the server in response.
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