Downloading from a secure repository

[Ramon Turnes Perez]

Hi,

we have set up an internal maven repository with Artifactory and disable
anonymous access so clients should authenticate themselves not only for
publishing to the repository but also for downloading. The set up works
for publishing, that is, maven client responds to server authentication
request and sends the username and password as configured in
settings.xml. 

But it does not work for downloading, that is, during the building
phase. It seems that maven client ignores the authentication request and
we just received the following message:

Authorization failed: Access denied to:
http://10.17.13.7:9080/artifactory/repo/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-s
ite-plugin/2.0-beta-7/maven-site-plugin-2.0-beta-7.pom

If we enable anonymous access for reading from the repository it works.
Any help would be appreciated.

We are using maven 2.1.0 and artifactory 2.0.5 with Java 1.5 on Windows
XP.

Thanks in advance.
Ramon.

We have followed the instructions as described in
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-repositories
.html. Our configuration looks like this:

pom.xml:

  <repositories>
      <repository>
          <id>central</id>
          <url>http://10.17.13.7:9080/artifactory/repo</url>
          <snapshots>
              <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>
      </repository>
      <repository>
          <id>snapshots</id>
          <url>http://10.17.13.7:9080/artifactory/repo</url>
          <releases>
              <enabled>false</enabled>
          </releases>
      </repository>
  </repositories>
  <pluginRepositories>
      <pluginRepository>
          <id>central</id>
          <url>http://10.17.13.7:9080/artifactory/repo</url>
          <snapshots>
              <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>
      </pluginRepository>
      <pluginRepository>
          <id>snapshots</id>
          <url>http://10.17.13.7:9080/artifactory/repo</url>
          <releases>
              <enabled>false</enabled>
          </releases>
      </pluginRepository>
  </pluginRepositories>

  <distributionManagement>
      <repository>
          <id>repo-releases</id>
          <name>repo-releases</name>
 
<url>http://10.17.13.7:9080/artifactory/libs-releases-local</url>
      </repository>
      <snapshotRepository>
          <id>repo-snapshots</id>
          <name>repo-snapshots</name>
 
<url>http://10.17.13.7:9080/artifactory/libs-snapshots-local</url>
      </snapshotRepository>
  </distributionManagement>


settings.xml

    <servers>
        <server>
            <id>central</id>
            <username>username</username>
            <password>password</password>
        </server>
        <server>
            <id>repo-releases</id>
            <username>username</username>
            <password>password</password>
        </server>
        <server>
            <id>repo-snapshots</id>
            <username>username</username>
            <password>password</password>
        </server>
    </servers>

    <mirrors>
        <mirror>
          <id>artifactory</id>
          <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
          <url>http://10.17.13.7:9080/artifactory/repo</url>
          <name>Artifactory</name>
        </mirror>
    </mirrors>