Providing credentials to maven-checkstyle-plugin

[Stevo Slavić <ss...@gmail.com>]

Hello maven users,

Is there a way to provide credentials to maven-checkstyle-plugin (2.0), so
that it can access a checkstyle checks configuration file located on a URL
which requires authentication? I've tried trick with embedding username and
password within URL, but it doesn't seem to work as plugin reports that it
"Could not find resource 'https://username:password@domain.com/checks.xml' "

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Stevo.