Eclipse helios install new plugin problem

Question

I'm trying to install new plugin but when I choose the update site I got this error

!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 4 0 2010-10-07 08:57:56.153 !MESSAGE Provisioning exception !STACK 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core.ProvisionException: Bad HTTP Request: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.6/compositeContent.xml at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.CacheManager.createCache(CacheManager.java:189) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.CompositeMetadataRepositoryFactory.getLocalFile(CompositeMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:74) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.CompositeMetadataRepositoryFactory.load(CompositeMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:99) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.factoryLoad(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:57) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:747) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:652) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:96) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:92) at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.LoadMetadataRepositoryJob.doLoad(LoadMetadataRepositoryJob.java:115) at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.LoadMetadataRepositoryJob.runModal(LoadMetadataRepositoryJob.java:100) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.ui.sdk.PreloadingRepositoryHandler$2.runModal(PreloadingRepositoryHandler.java:82) at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations.ProvisioningJob.run(ProvisioningJob.java:177) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54) Caused by: org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer.BrowseFileTransferException: HttpClient connection error response code 400. at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclient.HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.runRequest(HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.java:249) at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.browse.AbstractFileSystemBrowser$DirectoryJob.run(AbstractFileSystemBrowser.java:69) ... 1 more !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.repository 4 1002 2010-10-07 08:57:56.153 !MESSAGE Bad HTTP Request: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.6/compositeContent.xml !STACK 1 org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer.BrowseFileTransferException: HttpClient connection error response code 400. at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclient.HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.runRequest(HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.java:249) at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.browse.AbstractFileSystemBrowser$DirectoryJob.run(AbstractFileSystemBrowser.java:69) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54) !SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.ecf.identity 4 0 2010-10-07 08:57:56.153 !MESSAGE HttpClient connection error response code 400.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 4 0 2010-10-07 08:57:56.384 !MESSAGE Provisioning exception !STACK 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core.ProvisionException: Bad HTTP Request: http://dl.google.com/eclipse/inst/codepro/latest/3.6/content.xml at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.CacheManager.createCache(CacheManager.java:189) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.getLocalFile(SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:66) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.load(SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:88) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.factoryLoad(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:57) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:747) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:652) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:96) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:92) at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.LoadMetadataRepositoryJob.doLoad(LoadMetadataRepositoryJob.java:115) at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.LoadMetadataRepositoryJob.runModal(LoadMetadataRepositoryJob.java:100) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.ui.sdk.PreloadingRepositoryHandler$2.runModal(PreloadingRepositoryHandler.java:82) at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations.ProvisioningJob.run(ProvisioningJob.java:177) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54) Caused by: org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer.BrowseFileTransferException: HttpClient connection error response code 400. at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclient.HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.runRequest(HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.java:249) at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.browse.AbstractFileSystemBrowser$DirectoryJob.run(AbstractFileSystemBrowser.java:69) ... 1 more !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.repository 4 1002 2010-10-07 08:57:56.385 !MESSAGE Bad HTTP Request: http://dl.google.com/eclipse/inst/codepro/latest/3.6/content.xml !STACK 1 org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer.BrowseFileTransferException: HttpClient connection error response code 400. at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclient.HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.runRequest(HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.java:249) at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.browse.AbstractFileSystemBrowser$DirectoryJob.run(AbstractFileSystemBrowser.java:69) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54) !SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.ecf.identity 4 0 2010-10-07 08:57:56.385 !MESSAGE HttpClient connection error response code 400.

I have tried this with many update sites and I got the same error, so what is this?if someone interested in the full log I can post it.

Thanks

Answer 1

I'm not sure where you got your URLs, it seems you just entered wrong ones. Try the following:

1. Open the Help → Install new software.
2. Use the Helios main site: http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios
3. Make sure to turn off "contact all update sites..."
4. Try to install something and see if it works.

It seems you are just using the wrong URLs and you have some bad update sites. To remove the update sites that don't work, go to the Preferences → Install/Update → Available Software Sites. In this list, locate the bad site and remove them.

Also, I would suggest turning off the "contact all update sites..." as a common practice, unless the installation fails and you really need to install a dependency from another site.

You can find more tips on plugins installation in my blog post.