We are getting this same error randomly while trying to deploy to Artifactory 1.2.5u1. Our environment is Windows XP, Maven 2.0.7, JDK 1.5.0
[artifact:install-provider] Installing provider: org.apache.maven.wagon:wagon-webdav:jar:1.0-beta-2:runtime
[artifact:install-provider] WAGON_VERSION: 1.0-beta-2
[artifact:deploy] Deploying to dav:http://dev-maven1.foo.com:8081/artifactory/foo-snapshots@repo
[artifact:deploy] [INFO] Retrieving previous build number from com.foo.snapshots
[artifact:deploy] Feb 28, 2008 8:51:08 PM org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase processRequest
[artifact:deploy] INFO: Recoverable exception caught when processing request
[artifact:deploy] Feb 28, 2008 8:51:08 PM org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase processRequest
[artifact:deploy] WARNING: Recoverable exception caught but MethodRetryHandler.retryMethod() returned false, rethrowing exception
[artifact:deploy] An error has occurred while processing the Maven artifact tasks.
[artifact:deploy] Diagnosis:
[artifact:deploy]
[artifact:deploy] Error deploying artifact 'com.foo.vhi:wcp:jar': Error deploying artifact: Failed to create destination WebDAV collection (directory): /artifactory/foo-snapshots@repo/com/foo/vhi/wcp/6.6.0-SNAPSHOT
[artifact:deploy] org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpRecoverableException: Error in parsing the status line from the response: unable to find line starting with "HTTP"
[artifact:deploy]
BUILD FAILED
d:\vhi\6.6\dev\java\build.xml:77: Error deploying artifact 'com.foo.vhi:wcp:jar': Error deploying artifact: Failed to create destination WebDAV collection (directory): /artifactory/foo-snapshots@repo/com/foo/vhi/wcp/6.6.0-SNAPSHOT
After looking at the tcpdump output, I think this problem is actually a server problem with Archiva. It appears the server is throwing an error that does not get logged, but I can see the stack trace from the server in the network traffic. I'm will close this ticket and open a new one against Archiva. Thanks.