How to validate maven proxy setting

Question

I am trying to setup a maven project in my client environment and facing the issue.

I want to know if there is any way validate the proxy settings of maven

I know the internet is behind the proxy and so I have updated the settings.xml with following settings. These values are not actual values.

<proxies>
    <proxy>
        <id>optional</id>
        <active>true</active>
        <protocol>http</protocol>
        <username>proxyuser</username>
        <password>proxypass</password>
        <host>localhost</host>
        <port>8080</port>
    </proxy>
</proxies>

points to note.

• I don't have rights to check the exact proxy setting in internet or control panel
• I don't have write to download maven and run project from command line.
• I could only run project from eclipse.

The error I am getting in eclipse is

apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.14.1 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved:

i have already tried following things

• force update the maven project in eclipse
• make sure that maven setting in eclipse is pointing to settings.xml file

Answer 1

You can try -U flag. Just run follow command from eclipse

  mvn  -U verify

As described:

    -U --update-snapshots Forces a check for updated releases and snapshots on remote repositories

If it fails to connect remote repository you can guess that proxy or some proxy related setting is not set correctly.