Confluent Maven repository not working?

Question

I need to use the Confluent kafka-avro-serializer Maven artifact. From the official guide I should add this repository to my Maven pom

Answer 1

When trying to connect Artifactory to the Confluent Maven repository you have to set the repo URL in Artifactory to be either http://packages.confluent.io/maven or https://packages.confluent.io/maven (both schemes seem to work fine). The confusing part is that when you ask Artifactory to test that URL it will fail with the message "Input may not be null". You are also unable to browse the repository in Artifactory. However, regardless of these problems, artifacts will be downloaded and cached when clients request them.