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http authentication for p2.mirror task? [message #843192]

Thu, 12 April 2012 17:07

Eclipse User

I've searched this forum for 'mirror auth' and 'http auth' so apologies if this has already been covered. I'm trying to provide a utility script using a p2.mirror Ant task to allow developers to locally mirror a set of p2 repos that use http and require authentication. It's not a proxy server issue, the http server is internal and requires authentication.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="mirror.p2">
  <target name="mirror.p2">
    <p2.mirror>
      <repository location="/p2/local" name="Composite" />
      <source>
        <repository location="http :// server/P2/repo1" />
        <repository location="http :// server/P2/repo2" />
        <repository location="http :// server/P2/repo3" />
      </source>
    </p2.mirror>
  </target>
</project>

Note I had to break up the URLs above due to not having posted 25 times yet, it's correct in my file.

If I run org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner on this build file I get a ProvisionException for authentication failure. If I try to use username@server then the ProvisionException is for 'Unknown host'. If I try to use username:password@server then the ProvisionException is for 'Unable to read repository.'

How can I supply my credentials to get this to work?

Re: http authentication for p2.mirror task? [message #847053 is a reply to message #843192]

Mon, 16 April 2012 20:56

Eclipse User

p2 does not have any support for this out-of-the-box. To get that to work you would have to implement and register an instance of the org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core.UIServices service. This implementation would get the username and pwd from a place you would pick, including the p2.mirror task entry if needed.

HTH

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Pascal
Consulting, training, bug fixing - pascal at rapicault dot net

Re: http authentication for p2.mirror task? [message #847786 is a reply to message #847053]

Tue, 17 April 2012 12:53

Eclipse User

Well, at least I know to stop trying now. Are there any plans to add this seemingly basic functionality?

Re: http authentication for p2.mirror task? [message #849282 is a reply to message #847786]

Wed, 18 April 2012 22:44

Eclipse User

Nothing scheduled. I would recommend opening a bug report as it is the first time this comes up in this context.

Re: http authentication for p2.mirror task? [message #849887 is a reply to message #849282]

Thu, 19 April 2012 10:39

Eclipse User

Done.

bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=377194