[MNG-2741] [regression] Meaningless error message: "Error transferring file"

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.4
• Fix Version/s: 3.0-beta-1
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories, Errors
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Graham Leggett
• Created: 03/Jan/07 06:03
• Updated: 09/Jun/20 21:48
• Resolved: 30/Mar/10 13:40

Description

When an attempt is made to resolve dependencies, the following error is encountered:

[INFO] artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin: checking for updates from codehaus-mojo-snapshot-plugins
[WARNING] repository metadata for: 'artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin' could not be retrieved from repository: codehaus-mojo-snapshot-plugins due to an error: Error transferring file
[INFO] Repository 'codehaus-mojo-snapshot-plugins' will be blacklisted

Without further information, debugging this problem is impractical.

Information needed in the error message:

• Whether or not a proxy is being used, and if so, which one. (Symptoms in this case indicate no proxy is being used, yet a proxy is configured - no way to tell whether its a config problem or a proxy problem)

• Whether the server and/or proxy server gave an error code (4xx, 5xx), or whether there was no response at all.

Issue Links

• relates to: MNG-3477 Authentication failures on dependency download aren't reported