Jasig/uPortal — pull request #283 by timlevett (2014-04-01 22:01:28+00:00)
Title: UP-4038 : fix http redirect for sonatype snapshot repo

Issue : https://gist.github.com/timlevett/3e25082b1a7e923fc9fc

Solution suggested : https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/73845/suddenly-maven-does-not-compile-unable-to-get-dependency-information-related-to-velocity

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Changing your config to use https:// solves the problem.Still, this is bug in SDK as the URL used to generate the pom.xml file is now invalid.And also a bug in maven (for not properly detecting 301 redirects).
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