Maven dependencies are failing with a 501 error

The reason for the observed error is explained in Central 501 HTTPS Required

Effective January 15, 2020, The Central Repository no longer supports insecure communication over plain HTTP and requires that all requests to the repository are encrypted over HTTPS.

It looks like latest versions of Maven (tried with 3.6.0, 3.6.1) are already using the HTTPS URL by default.

Here are the dates when the major repositories will switch:

Your Java builds might break starting January 13th (if you haven't yet switched repo access to HTTPS)

Update: Seems like from maven 3.2.3 maven central is accessed via HTTPS See https://stackoverflow.com/a/25411658/5820670

Maven Change log (http://maven.apache.org/docs/3.2.3/release-notes.html)

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I am facing the same problem. There are two solutions that I tried, and both works fine for me.

Update the Maven version repository (Maven version >= 3.2.3)

Restrict the current Maven version to use HTTPS links.

Update the Maven version repository:

Download the Apache Maven binary that includes the default https addresses (Apache Maven 3.6.3 binary). And open the Options dialog window in tools of NetBeans menu bar (Java Maven Dialog View). And select browse option in Maven Home List Box (Maven Home List Box View). After adding the Apache Maven newly downloaded version (Updated Maven Home List Box View), the project builds and runs successfully.

Restrict the current Maven version to use HTTPS links:

Include the following code in pom.xml of your project.

<project>
      ...
    <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>central</id>
            <name>Central Repository</name>
            <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
            <layout>default</layout>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
            <releases>
                <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
            </releases>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>
    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>central</id>
            <name>Central Repository</name>
            <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
            <layout>default</layout>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
</project>

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Effective January 15, 2020, The Central Repository no longer supports insecure communication over plain HTTP and requires that all requests to the repository are encrypted over HTTPS. If you're receiving this error, then you need to replace all URL references to Maven Central with their canonical HTTPS counterparts.

(source)

We have made the following changes in my project's build.gradle:

Old:

repositories {
   maven { url "http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2" }
}

New:

repositories {
   maven { url "https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2" }
}

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Try to hit the below URL in any browser. It will return 501

http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/wagon/wagon-ssh/2.1/wagon-ssh-2.1.pom

Please try with https. It will download a pom.xml file:

https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/wagon/wagon-ssh/2.1/wagon-ssh-2.1.pom

Please add it (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2) in the setting.xml file:

<repositories>
   <repository>
      <id>Central Maven repository</id>
      <name>Central Maven repository https</name>
      <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
   </repository>
</repositories>

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Update the central repository of Maven and use https instead of http.

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>central</id>
        <name>Central Repository</name>
        <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
        <layout>default</layout>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
        </snapshots>
    </repository>
</repositories>

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I was using a clean install of Maven/Java on a Docker container.

For me, I had to cd $M2_HOME/conf and edit the settings.xml file there. Add the following block inside <mirrors>...</mirrors>

<mirror>
  <id>central-secure</id>
  <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
  <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>

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Add this in pom.xml file. It works fine for me

<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>central</id>
        <name>Central Repository</name>
        <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
        <layout>default</layout>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
        </snapshots>
        <releases>
            <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
        </releases>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>central</id>
        <name>Central Repository</name>
        <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
        <layout>default</layout>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
        </snapshots>
    </repository>
</repositories>

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Maven is moving to HTTPS and disabling HTTP access

Short story, from January 15, 2020, Maven Central repository is not longer supporting HTTP connections (other repositories are doing the same). Therefore, you will indicate your Maven/Gradle settings to use an HTTPS URL.

Solution:

You can choose one of the following three approaches.

Add a repository in your project´s pom.xml file ... central maven repo central maven repo https https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 Add the repository into a profile in the settings.xml file. my profile central maven repo central maven repo https https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 Update you maven version to a new one that uses https values as default. The lastest one at this moment 3.6.3 Download here

For Gradle:

Only replace the URL for the HTTPS version.

repositories {
   maven { url "https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2" }
}

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I was added following code segment to setting.xml and it was resolved the issue,

<mirrors>
    <mirror>
        <id>maven-mirror</id>
        <name>Maven Mirror</name>
        <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
        <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
    </mirror>
</mirrors>

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I was using an outdated version of Maven (3.0.3 and 3.1). These older versions no longer supports http repositories (as mentioned above). Upgrading to Maven 3.6 was the fix for me.

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As stated in other answers, https is now required to make requests to Maven Central, while older versions of Maven use http.

If you don't want to/cannot upgrade to Maven 3.2.3+, you can do a workaround by adding the following code into your MAVEN_HOME\conf\settings.xml into the <profiles> section:

<profile>
    <id>maven-https</id>
    <activation>
        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
    </activation>
    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>central</id>
            <url>https://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
    <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>central</id>
            <url>https://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories> 
</profile>

This will be always an active setting unless you disable/override it in your POM when needed.

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I have the same issue, but I use GitLab instead of Jenkins. The steps I had to do to get over the issue:

My project is in GitLab so it uses the .yml file which points to a Docker image I have to do continuous integration, and the image it uses has the http://maven URLs. So I changed that to https://maven. That same Dockerfile image had an older version of Maven 3.0.1 that gave me issues just overnight. I updated the Dockerfile to get the latest version 3.6.3 I then deployed that image to my online repository, and updated my Maven project ymlfile to use that new image. And lastly, I updated my main projects POM file to reference https://maven... instead of http://maven

I realize that is more specific to my setup. But without doing all of the steps above I would still continue to get this error message Return code is: 501 , ReasonPhrase:HTTPS Required

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For me (corporate coder) also adding a mirror repository in the settings.xml fixed the issue. I am also using Maven inside a docker container.

<mirrors>
    <mirror>
        <id>https-mirror</id>
        <name>Https Mirror Repository</name>
        <url>https://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
        <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
    </mirror>
</mirrors>

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For all the corporate coders, ideally, if you get this error, it means that your code base is still being built from open-source community. You need to over ride the "central" repository with your in house company Maven repository manager.

You can go to your settings.xml and override your central repository URL from http:// to https://

<M2_HOME>/conf/settings.xml

Find the mirrors sections and add the following entry:

    <mirror>
     <id>other-mirror</id>
     <name>Other Mirror Repository</name>
     <url>https://other-mirror.repo.other-company.com/maven2</url>
     <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
    </mirror>

In the URL section, if you were using either http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ or http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ then

Replace http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ with https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/

Replace http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ with https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/

You need to ideally use your company source control management/repository URL over here. As this will block any contact with open source Maven repository community.

As mentioned in other answers, effective from 15 January 2020, the central Maven repository doesn't support insecure communication over plain HTTP.

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If you are using Netbeans older version, you have to make changes in maven to use https over http

Open C:\Program Files\NetBeans8.0.2\java\maven\conf\settings.xml and paste below code in between mirrors tag

<mirror>
<id>maven-mirror</id>
<name>Maven Mirror</name>
<url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>

It will force maven to use https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 url.

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Using Ubuntu 16.04, java 1.8.0_201.

I un-installed old maven and installed Maven 3.6.3, still got this error that Maven dependencies are failing with a 501 error.

Realized it could be a truststore/keystore issue associated with requiring https. Found that you can now configure -Djavax options using a jvm.config file, see: https://maven.apache.org/configure.html.

As I am also using Tomcat I copied the keystore & truststore config from Tomcat (setenv.sh) to my jvm.config and then it worked!

There is also an option to pass the this config in 'export MAVEN_OPTS' (when using mvn generate) but although this stopped the 501 error it created another: it expected a pom file.

Creating a separate jvm.config file works perfectly, just put it in the root of your project.

Hopefully this helps someone, took me all day to figure it out!

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Same issue is also occuring for jcenter.

From 13 Jan 2020 onwards, Jcenter is only available at HTTPS.

Projects getting their dependencies using the same will start facing issues. For quick fixes do the following in your build.gradle

instead of

repositories {
jcenter ()
//others
}

use this:

repositories {
jcenter { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com/"}
//others
}

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The error:

Failed to transfer file: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/wagon/wagon-ssh/2.1/wagon-ssh-2.1.pom.

Return code is: 501 , ReasonPhrase:HTTPS Required.

Root cause analysis:

Maven central is expecting that the clients use https, but the client is making plain HTTP request only.

Therefore, the request for downloading the package named 'wagon-ssh-2.1.pom' had failed.

How to fix the problem?

Replace the URL "http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2"

with "https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2"

in pom.xml file or build.gradle file of the project.

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My current environment does not support HTTPS, so adding the insecure version of the repo solved my problem: http://insecure.repo1.maven.org as per Sonatype

    <repositories>
       <repository>
          <id>Central Maven repository</id>
          <name>Central Maven repository insecure</name>
          <url>http://insecure.repo1.maven.org</url>
       </repository>
    </repositories>

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The following link got me out of the trouble,

https://support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041287334-Central-501-HTTPS-Required

You could make the changes either in your maven, apache-maven/conf/settings.xml. Or, if you are specifying in your pom.xml, make the change there.

Before,

<repository>
            <id>maven_central_repo</id>
            <url>http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
</repository>

Now,

<repository>
            <id>maven_central_repo</id>
            <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
</repository>

Note the change from http to https

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Sharing this in case anyone needs it:

Old Gradle config( without Gitlab , Docker deployments , for simple projects)

repositories {
google()
jcenter()

maven { url "http://dl.bintray.com/davideas/maven" }
maven { url 'https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/' }
maven { url 'http://repo1.maven.org/maven2' }
maven { url 'http://jcenter.bintray.com' }
}

New config :

repositories {
google()
jcenter()

maven { url "https://dl.bintray.com/davideas/maven" }
maven { url 'https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/' }
maven { url 'https://repo1.maven.org/maven2' }
maven { url 'https://jcenter.bintray.com' }
}

Notice the https. Happy coding :)

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Originally from https://stackoverflow.com/a/59796324/32453 though this might be useful:

Beware that your parent pom can (re) define repositories as well, and if it has overridden central and specified http for whatever reason, you'll need to fix that (so places to fix: ~/.m2/settings.xml AND also parent poms).

If you can't fix it in parent pom, you can override parent pom's repo's, like this, in your child pom (extracted from the 3.6.3 default super pom, seems they changed the name from repo1 as well):

  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>central</id>
      <name>Central Repository</name>
      <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url> <!-- the https you've been looking for -->
      <layout>default</layout>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>false</enabled> <!-- or set to true if desired, default is false -->
      </snapshots>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

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This error occured to me too. I did what Muhammad umer said above. But, it only solved error for spring-boot-dependencies and spring-boot-dependencies has child dependencies. Now, there were 21 errors. Previously, it was 2 errors. Like this:

Non-resolvable import POM: Could not transfer artifact org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:pom:Hoxton.SR3 from/to central

and also https required in the error message.

I updated the maven version from 3.2.2 to 3.6.3 and java version from 8 to 11. Now, all errors of https required are gone.

To update maven version

Download latest maven from here: download maven Unzip and move it to /opt/maven/ Set the path export PATH=$PATH:/opt/maven/bin And, also remove old maven from PATH

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On an old grails environment the only thing that works without upgrading is:

settings.xml

   <settings>
    <mirrors>
        <mirror>
          <id>centralhttps</id>
          <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
          <name>Maven central https</name>
          <url>http://insecure.repo1.maven.org/maven2/</url>
        </mirror>
      </mirrors>
  </settings>

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I downloaded latest eclipse and tarted to use from here https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/ which resolved my problem.

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I hit this problem with the latest version (August 2020) (after not using Maven on this machine for ages) and was scratching my head as to why it could still be an issue after reading these answers.

Turns out I had an old settings.xml sitting in the .m2/ folder in my home directory with some customisations from years ago.

However, even deleting that file didn't fix it for me. I ended up deleting the entire .m2 folder.
I don't think there was anything else in it except for downloaded resources. Maybe just deleting folders like repository/org/apache/maven/archetype would have been sufficient.

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I downloaded the last netbeans version 12.2, and the problem was resolved.

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Add the following repository in pom.xml.

<project>
...
    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>central</id>
            <name>Maven Plugin Repository</name>
            <url>https://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
            <layout>default</layout>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
...
</project>

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