http authentication between using ant/ivy retrieving dependency from nexus?

Question

I have an issue when attempting to retrieve a dependency from a nexus repository when running ant with ivy. the dependency is never resolved, when running with verbose outp

Answer 1

Are you getting a HTTP 401 error? That would indicate problems with the credentials being used to login to Nexus.

Can be fixed by adding a credentials entry in your ivy settings file:

<credentials host="${nexus.host}" realm="Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager" username="${nexus.user}" passwd="${nexus.pass}" />  

The gotcha is you need to specify the correct Nexus security realm.