[WAGON-317] Do not wait for 401 "authentication needed" response to send the login/pwd on PUT queries

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-6
• Fix Version/s: 2.0
• Component/s: wagon-http-lightweight
• Assignee: Olivier Lamy
• Reporter: Erwan Ducroquet
• Created: 15/Nov/10 04:43
• Updated: 22/Sep/11 10:01
• Resolved: 22/Sep/11 10:01

Description

When the maven repository requires authentication to PUT jars,
1- the deploy plugin first triggers a HTTP PUT query without login/pwd, trying to send the jar
2- then the repo rejects this query as 401 "need authentication" error
3- then the deploy plugin triggers again same HTTP PUT query with the login/pwd and sends the jar again
4- then the repo accepts this second query and uploads the jar

This sequence consumes useless I/O (trying to send the jar on first query)
and causes issues on some configurations like HTTPS with a frontend webserver : randomly the HTTPS connection is cut (Nginx HTTPS forwarding to Nexus HTTPS).

It will be better (by default or with some config var) to provide immediately the login/pwd on PUT queries
=> aka: sending the HTTP header "Authentication: BASIC xxxxx"

Tested with Maven 2.2.1, Deploy 2.5, Nexus 1.7.2, Nginx