Ant Tasks use of <authentication> is inconsistent
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Key: MNG-2492
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2492
Project: Maven 2
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Ant tasks
Affects Versions: 2.0.4
Environment: cygwin/win32
Reporter: jonathan anderson
Priority: Minor
In the ant build file, authentication works fine if you do:
<artifact:dependencies pathId="dependency.classpath">
<dependency groupId="edu.blah" artifactId="blah"
version="1.0-SNAPSHOT"/>
<remoteRepository id="abcde.repository"
url="https://blah.blah.edu:8081/maven2";>
<authentication username="username" password="password"/>
<remoteRepository>
</artifact:dependencies>
But, if you do
<artifact:remoteRepository id="abcde.repository"
url="https://blah.blah.edu:8081/maven2";>
<authentication username="username" password="password"/>
</artifact:remoteRepository>
<artifact:dependencies pathId="dependency.classpath">
<dependency groupId="edu.blah" artifactId="blah"
version="1.0-SNAPSHOT"/>
<artifact:remoteRepository refid="abcde.repository"/>
</artifact:dependencies>
It fails mysteriously. The remoteRepository is found, but the http client does
not respond to the authentication challenge. The only error which presents is
a vague "Error transferring file" message
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