I'll attempt to try that ... I'm just not sure if it is going to cover
.cmd/.bat files or not.  As far as I know though the java process is
unrestricted

Jo Vandermeeren wrote:
> I assume that you want to allow http access for specific processes only?
>
> Turn off your firewall, do your maven thing that needs remote repository
> access, check what the name of the maven process is and add it to you
> firewall's whitelist for port 80..
>
> Or if you are less paranoid, you could just allow all local processes to
> access the http port..
>
> Cheers
> Jo
>
> On 5/13/07, David J. Graff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Alright after a number of misses trying to make this work I finally went
>> really low level and figured out what was going on.
>>
>> I kept getting an exception downloading information from the repository
>> when starting a new pom.xml.  After executing the definition of insanity
>> (repeating same process and expecting a different result) I gave up for
>> a little while.
>>
>> Afterward, I fired up my network sniffer and attempted to watch port 80
>> traffic that should be at least generated during this operation.
>>
>> No traffic at all was showing up.  Finally gave up on it and turned off
>> the personal firewall ... voila it worked.
>>
>> I checked the rules for norton and Java (in all of its installed
>> incarnations) is authorized to run.
>>
>> I'm assuming that it doesn't like something about java connecting and
>> getting something but what I'm not sure.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>> -- 
>> David J. Graff
>> djgraff AT alltel DOT net
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>>
>>
>>
>

-- 
David J. Graff
djgraff AT alltel DOT net
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