How to tell maven to use https instead of http...

[Stefano Fornari]

I am trying to create a project from an archetype:

mvn archetype:generate \
        -DarchetypeGroupId=org.openjfx \
        -DarchetypeArtifactId=javafx-archetype-simple \
        -DarchetypeVersion=0.0.3 \
        -DgroupId=org.openjfx \
        -DartifactId=sample \
        -Dversion=1.0.0 \
        -Djavafx-version=17.0.1


But I am getting the following error:

rg.apache.maven.wagon.TransferFailedException: Failed to transfer file:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2. Return code is: 501 , ReasonPhrase:HTTPS
Required.

Shouldn't maven central be hardcoded in the apache-maven package? How can I
fix it?

Many thanks in advance.

Ste