[Artifactory-users] artifactory as a redirecting proxy

[Jorg H. <jor...@gm...>]

Hi,

DSMP [1] implements a way to transparently "redirect" maven clients to a
different repository. This is really handy for artifacts that specify
repositories in their pom.xml :

<repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>apache.snapshots</id>
            <name>Apache Maven Repository (Snapshots and Test Builds)</name>
            <url>http://people.apache.org/maven-snapshot-repository</url>
            <releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
            <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
       </repository>
       <repository>
            <id>java.net</id>
            <name>java.net Maven 1 Repository</name>
            <url>https://maven-repository.dev.java.net/nonav/repository</url>
            <layout>legacy</layout>
       </repository>
</repositories>

For this, one only needs to specify dsmp as a proxy in settings.xml. Server
side configuration then redirects the server url to either a different local
or remote repository. This is really handy in corporate intranets where
authenticating proxies would require maven to have a hardcoded proxy
username/password in settings.xml.

I was wondering if Artifactory is planning to implement a similar feature ?

Thanks,
Jorg

[1] http://www.pdark.de/dsmp/usage.html