[jira] (MDEP-418) support for retrying downloads that timed-out mid-way

["Radai Rosenblatt (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

Radai Rosenblatt created MDEP-418:
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             Summary: support for retrying downloads that timed-out mid-way
                 Key: MDEP-418
                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-418
             Project: Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: Radai Rosenblatt


I have a build that pulls a lot of artifacts (~200 MB of artifacts) from a corporate maven repository over a sometimes-unreliable network connection.
At times a download will stall mid-way causing the build to (eventually) time out and fail, if I dotn abort it myself after a few minutes of inactivity:

Downloading: http://corp-repo/.../SomeLargeArtifact.zip
8728/20085 KB <---- remains this way for 5 minutes, then i kill it

it would be nice if the dependency plugin could retry a download if its mid-way (meaning some data has actually transferred) and stalled (say no incoming data for 5 minutes).
since the amount of data received is already printed to the console i think at least some of the tracking mechanism required to trigger a re-download already exists


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