in src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/AbstractArtifactTask.java [900:912]
boolean isExternalRepo( RemoteRepository originalRepository )
{
try
{
URL url = new URL( originalRepository.getUrl() );
return !( url.getHost().equals( "localhost" ) || url.getHost().equals( "127.0.0.1" ) || url.getProtocol().equals( "file" ) );
}
catch ( MalformedURLException e )
{
// bad url just skip it here. It should have been validated already, but the wagon lookup will deal with it
return false;
}
}