Gradle: Error listing versions of junit#junit;4.+ - junit

Question

I am getting the below error when running gradle build on my gradle.properties file.
I know I am behind a firewall and I have a poxy I can use. I've tried adding the below to my gradle.properties file, but I cannot pull down jUnit. All help appreciated!
systemProp.http.proxyHost=www.somehost.org
systemProp.http.proxyPort=8080
Error:
Error listing versions of junit#junit;4.+ using class
org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.MavenVersionLister$1.
Will attempt an alternate way to list versions. This behaviour has been
deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 2.0
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':testRuntime'.
> Could not resolve junit:junit:4.+.
Required by:
:HealthMonitor:1.0
> Failed to list versions for junit#junit;4.+.
> Could not list versions using M2 pattern 'http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/
[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision](-[classifier]).[ext]'.
> Could not GET 'http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/junit/junit/'.
> Connection to http://repo1.maven.org refused
build.gradle:
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
version = '1.0'
jar {
manifest {
attributes 'Implementation-Title': 'Health Monitor', 'Implementation-Version': version
}
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.+'
}

Answer 1

Depending on the proxy, you may have to configure more than just the host and port. See Accessing the web via a proxy in the Gradle User Guide. Also, I recommend to try with a fixed version rather than a version range.