Allow URLs to be used for installing a file
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         Key: MINSTALL-25
         URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MINSTALL-25
     Project: Maven 2.x Install Plugin
        Type: New Feature

    Reporter: Richard S. Hall


Looking at the source code, it definitely does not appear possible to install a 
file from a URL using install:install-file.

To me, this seems like it would be a useful feature and could be handled 
uniformly if file: URLs were supported.

As it stands right now, if I want to install something into my local repo, I 
need to download it and save it somewhere on my computer, then I need to 
remember where I saved it and type that path into a maven command to make 
another copy in my local repository.

It seems like it would be much more straightforward to just give the URL I want 
to be downloaded and installed. 

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