Maven stopped downloading dependencies and shows valid certification path to requested target

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Recently Maven has stopped downloading dependencies. its suggested to use https: . So i changed all http urls to https in the settings.xml file. But after that on maven clean and install .It shows the following error

(https://repo1.maven.org/maven2): sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

Does this answer your question? [Problems using Maven and SSL behind proxy](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25911623/problems-using-maven-and-ssl-behind-proxy) — seenukarthi, Feb 11 '20 at 08:31

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 11 '20 at 09:30

If you are behind any proxy, Please configure proxy in settings.xml

  <proxies>
    <proxy>
      <id>proxy</id>
      <active>true</active>
      <protocol>your_protocol</protocol>
      <host>your_host</host>
      <port>your_port</port>
    </proxy>

  </proxies>

Maven stopped downloading dependencies and shows valid certification path to requested target

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