TK for Windows with download_url doesn't work with Artifactory Basic Auth

[rgjoshi24]

The customer is hosting chef-client “msi” and “rpms” on Artifactory generic repo which needs authentication(anonymous read not allowed).

The line in kitchen.yml

download_url: "https://:<API_KEY>@<ARTIFACTORY_URL>/artifactory/ent-generic-local/chef_packages/chef-client.rpm"

works on Linux TK instance, but the same line

download_url: "https://:<API_KEY>@<ARTIFACTORY_URL>/artifactory/ent-generic-local/chef_packages/chef-client.msi"

fails saying authentication required 401 error while downloading on windows-2016. So why basic auth works on Linux and not on Windows? (edited)

[tduffield]

Alright, so based on some initial analysis and with logs provided, I'm confident that the issue is that the Powershell module we currently use to download the artifact does not support basic auth. So unfortunately there is no quick fix to this. :/

This will have to be triaged as it will likely require some decent engineering effort.