Hi, I have a maven project (say A) depending on another project (say B) whose project URL refers to a server without a global DNS name (e.g. http://server.company.local/... or http://serverXYZ/...). The dependencies page of the maven site for project A shows the URL of project B as plain text and not the link named after B's artifactId with a proper href to B's URL. I tried maven 3.0.5 and 3.3.3.
Is there a known workaround for this? A little research showed, that this behavior comes from maven-reporting-impl which is validating the URL with an apache-commons UrlValidator. If validation fails, the href is output as text. The version of the UrlValidator in use actually rejects any Top Level Domain longer than 4 characters. Newer versions, however, would not solve my problem, as they rely on a white list of top level domains not including ".local". Can anybody explain to me why the URL has to be validated? Thanks in advance!
