[MDOCCK-13] Set user agent for URL verifications

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-2
• Fix Version/s: 1.0
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann
• Created: 09/Jul/08 08:22
• Updated: 09/Jul/08 08:25
• Resolved: 09/Jul/08 08:25

Description

Running the plugin on the JDepend Plugin from Mojo causes a false alarm:

o JDepend Maven Plugin (1 error, 0 warnings)
  [ERROR] Cannot reach license 'BSD' with URL: 'http://www.clarkware.com/software/license.txt'.

The URL is fine. After some telnet sessions, it appears the server is blocking the request (with code 412) just because of the user agent header field which is currently "Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.0.1". That seems like a good reason to tell the server, who is really knocking on its door.

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-3652 set a user agent for Maven HTTP requests