[MNG-5585] match server credentials based on server realm

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 4.x / Backlog
• Component/s: Settings
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: nicolas de loof
• Created: 11/Feb/14 02:59
• Updated: 14/Feb/24 13:26

Description

credentials for repositories are identified based on arbitrary ID. This is error prone and fragile design, especially as there's no way to diagnose which credentials are used (see MNG-5584).

A realm-based server matching would better follow the way HTTP security is defined, and could be easily used for other protocols based (for sample) on domain name.

<server>
     <id>xxx</id>  
     <realm>[optional protocol://]repo.acme.com</realm>
    ..
</server>

Issue Links

• relates to: MNG-6895 Add aliasing feature for settings.xml:///servers/server
• relates to: MRESOLVER-495 Provide AuthenticationSelector based on host/realm instead of repository id
• relates to: WAGON-558 log credentials source when failing to access a repository