Running Gradle through an NTLM proxy

[mark_vieira]

If your proxy is using SPNEGO+Kerberos then you should be able to leverage Kerberos auth. You’ll still need to supply http.proxyUser and http.proxyPassword (they’ll be ignored) for us to configuration proxy authentication but I see no reason why Kerberos auth wouldn’t work.

Kerberos authentication from Gradle

When retrieving artifacts from a Maven repository that is protected by Kerberos authentication Gradle doesn’t seem to even try to perform Kerberos authentication if credentials aren’t specified (even though the credentials are ignored). Also it seems like even when the kerberos authentication is attempted it doesn’t seem to work. I’ve built a simple java application using HttpClient (also a simpler application using the built in Java HttpUrlConnection) both seem to work with Kerberos with relat…