We are starting to get denied access error from the central repo while doing curl from the same machine seems to work. Is there anything that might cause Archiva to behave this way? We have noticed the problem today.
Error message: Download failure on resource [http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-daemon/commons-daemon/1.0.6/commons-daemon-1.0.6.pom]:Access denied to: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-daemon/commons-daemon/1.0.6/commons-daemon-1.0.6.pom, ReasonPhrase:Denied Access. 2013-08-27 23:04:41,609 ERROR [org.apache.archiva.webdav.ArchivaDavResourceFactory] Failures occurred downloading from some remote repositories: central: Download failure on resource [http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-daemon/commons-daemon/1.0.6/commons-daemon-1.0.6.pom]:Access denied to: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-daemon/commons-daemon/1.0.6/commons-daemon-1.0.6.pom, ReasonPhrase:Denied Access. org.apache.archiva.policies.ProxyDownloadException: Failures occurred downloading from some remote repositories: central: Download failure on resource [http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-daemon/commons-daemon/1.0.6/commons-daemon-1.0.6.pom]:Access denied to: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-daemon/commons-daemon/1.0.6/commons-daemon-1.0.6.pom, ReasonPhrase:Denied Access. -bash-4.1$ curl -v http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-daemon/commons-daemon/1.0.6/commons-daemon-1.0.6.pom * About to connect() to repo1.maven.org port 80 (#0) * Trying 199.27.77.185... connected * Connected to repo1.maven.org (199.27.77.185) port 80 (#0) > GET /maven2/commons-daemon/commons-daemon/1.0.6/commons-daemon-1.0.6.pom > HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.21.7 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.7 > OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.2.2 > Host: repo1.maven.org > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK