How to pass credentials for P2 repos?

[tarioch]

Some of our repos require basic auth credentials. In older versions what we did is in the setup file, we had the url like this

https://${user}:${pass}@myrepo.tld/foo

Now it looks with the upgrades such a userinfo encoded in the url is no longer supported. What is now the expected way to pass the credentials?

[merks]

In the 2023-12 release, p2 started using a new provider from ECF, but that provider does a poor job supporting any kind of credentials. So generally the installer and the Eclipse products specify the following system property so the the older provider is used:

-Dorg.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.excludeContributors=org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclientjava

See this for details:

https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/news/4.30/platform.php#new-ecf-client

Otherwise I would expect things to work the same as before....

[tarioch]

Unfortunately that didn't help, I think also just the apache httpclient 5 upgrade doesn't seem to support that anymore :(

org.apache.hc.client5.http.ClientProtocolException: Request URI authority contains deprecated userinfo component
  at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:173)
  at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:106)
  at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclient5.HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.runRequest(HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.java:251)
  at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.browse.AbstractFileSystemBrowser$DirectoryJob.run(AbstractFileSystemBrowser.java:71)
  at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:63)
Caused by: org.apache.hc.core5.http.ProtocolException: Request URI authority contains deprecated userinfo component
  at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:145)
  at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
  at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpRequestRetryExec.execute(HttpRequestRetryExec.java:96)
  at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
  at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ContentCompressionExec.execute(ContentCompressionExec.java:152)
  at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
  at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:115)
  at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.ExecChainElement.execute(ExecChainElement.java:51)
  at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:170)
  at org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:106)
  at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclient5.HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.runRequest(HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.java:251)
  at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.browse.AbstractFileSystemBrowser$DirectoryJob.run(AbstractFileSystemBrowser.java:71)
  ... 1 more

[merks]

Oh yes ,that could be the case. It's probably for your safety and comfort. 😢 Sorry.