HTTP Authorization fails for http://cdn.repository.liferay.com Nexus repository

• Type: Bug
• Status: Verified
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 6.2.5 CE GA6
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Dev Tools, Dev Tools > Plugins SDK
• Labels: None
• Fix Priority: 4

Steps:

1. Install a 6.2 CE Plugins SDK
2. In a plugin project that uses Ant/Ivy, execute an Ant task such as ant clean

Expected Results:
The task invokes Ivy to download dependencies into the cache and proceeds with its task logic.

Actual Results:
Ivy downloads fail for Liferay's CDN Nexus repo due to an authorization failure.

>ant clean
Buildfile: C:\plugins-sdks\sdk-6.2-sample-ivy-projects\portlets\sample-jsp-portlet\build.xml
[mkdir] Created dir: C:\plugins-sdks\sdk-6.2-sample-ivy-projects\.ivy
[mkdir] Created dir: C:\Users\liferay\.liferay\mirrors\cdn.repository.liferay.com\nexus\content\repositories\liferay-snapshots-ce\com\liferay\org.apache.ivy\2.4.0.LIFERAY-PATCHED-1-SNAPSHOT
[get] Getting: http://mirrors.lax.liferay.com/cdn.repository.liferay.com/nexus/content/repositories/liferay-snapshots-ce/com/liferay/org.apache.ivy/2.4.0.LIFERAY-PATCHED-1-SNAPSHOT/org.apache.ivy-2.4.0.LIFERAY-PATCHED-1-SNAPSHOT.jar
[get] To: C:\Users\liferay\.liferay\mirrors\cdn.repository.liferay.com\nexus\content\repositories\liferay-snapshots-ce\com\liferay\org.apache.ivy\2.4.0.LIFERAY-PATCHED-1-SNAPSHOT\org.apache.ivy-2.4.0.LIFERAY-PATCHED-1-SNAPSHOT.jar
[get] Getting: http://cdn.repository.liferay.com/nexus/content/repositories/liferay-snapshots-ce/com/liferay/org.apache.ivy/2.4.0.LIFERAY-PATCHED-1-SNAPSHOT/org.apache.ivy-2.4.0.LIFERAY-PATCHED-1-SNAPSHOT.jar
[get] To: C:\Users\liferay\.liferay\mirrors\cdn.repository.liferay.com\nexus\content\repositories\liferay-snapshots-ce\com\liferay\org.apache.ivy\2.4.0.LIFERAY-PATCHED-1-SNAPSHOT\org.apache.ivy-2.4.0.LIFERAY-PATCHED-1-SNAPSHOT.jar

BUILD FAILED
C:\plugins-sdks\sdk-6.2-sample-ivy-projects\portlets\sample-jsp-portlet\build.xml:5: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\plugins-sdks\sdk-6.2-sample-ivy-projects\portlets\build-common-portlet.xml:5: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\plugins-sdks\sdk-6.2-sample-ivy-projects\build-common-plugin.xml:5: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\plugins-sdks\sdk-6.2-sample-ivy-projects\build-common.xml:60: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\plugins-sdks\sdk-6.2-sample-ivy-projects\build-common-ivy.xml:130: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\plugins-sdks\sdk-6.2-sample-ivy-projects\build-common-ivy.xml:81: HTTP Authorization failure

Total time: 2 seconds

Workaround:
Copy the following property into your Plugins SDK's build.username.properties file ...

{{
ivy.jar.url=https://repository.liferay.com/nexus/content/repositories/liferay-public-snapshots/com/liferay/org.apache.ivy/${ivy.version}/org.apache.ivy-${ivy.version}.jar
}}

This issue has also been reported in the forums:

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