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+package org.tudo.sse.utils;
+
+import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
+import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
+import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
+import org.jsoup.select.Elements;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.tudo.sse.model.ArtifactIdent;
+import org.tudo.sse.resolution.FileNotFoundException;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.Stack;
+
+/**
+ * An iterator over all artifacts in a maven repository that is based on parsing the HTML pages of the repository.
+ * This is a fallback solution for repositories that do not provide an index or if the index is not accessible for some reason.
+ */
+public class HTMLBasedIndexIterator implements Iterator<ArtifactIdent> {
+
+
+    private final Stack<String> queue = new Stack<>();
+    private final Stack<ArtifactIdent> foundGAVs = new Stack<>();
+    private final String baseURL;
+    private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass());
+
+    public HTMLBasedIndexIterator(String baseUrl) {
+        baseURL = baseUrl;
+        queue.push("");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Finds all URLs on the page of the given local part of the url (e.g. "com/example/library/1.0/") and
+     * adds them to the queue if they are directories or to the list of found GAVs if they are artifact files.
+     *
+     * @param url local part of the URL to find URLs on (e.g. "com/example/library/1.0/")
+     */
+    private void findURLs(String url) throws IOException {
+        try (InputStream content = ResourceConnections.openInputStream(new URI(baseURL + url))) {
+            if (content != null) {
+                Document doc = Jsoup.parse(content, "UTF-8", "https://www.example.com");
+                Elements links = doc.select("a[href]");
+                for (Element link : links) {
+                    String href = link.attr("href");
+                    if (href.isBlank() || href.contains("../")) continue;
+                    if (href.endsWith("/")) {
+                        queue.push(url + href);
+                    } else if (href.endsWith(".pom") || href.endsWith(".jar")) {
+                        foundGAVs.add(urlToArtifactIdent(url + href));
+                        //There is maximally one artifact per directory, so we can stop after finding one
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
+            log.error("Could not MAVEN Repository URL {}: {}", url, e.getMessage());
+        } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts the local part of a  URL of a maven artifact (e.g. "com/example/library/1.0/library-1.0.pom") to an artifact identifier
+     *
+     * @param url local part of URL of a maven artifact (e.g. "com/example/library/1.0/library-1.0.pom")
+     * @return An artifact identifier represented by the given URL
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException If the given URL does not contain enough parts to identify an artifact
+     */
+    private ArtifactIdent urlToArtifactIdent(String url) {
+        String[] parts = url.split("/");
+        if (parts.length < 3)
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("URL does not contain enough parts to be identify an artifact");
+        String version = parts[parts.length - 2];
+        String artifactId = parts[parts.length - 3];
+        StringBuilder groupId = new StringBuilder();
+        for (int i = 0; i < parts.length - 3; i++) {
+            groupId.append(parts[i]);
+            if (i < parts.length - 4) groupId.append(".");
+        }
+        ArtifactIdent ident = new ArtifactIdent(groupId.toString(), artifactId, version);
+        ident.setRepository(baseURL);
+        return ident;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean hasNext() {
+        while (foundGAVs.isEmpty()) {
+            if (queue.isEmpty()) return false;
+            try {
+                findURLs(queue.pop());
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public ArtifactIdent next() {
+        if (!hasNext()) throw new IllegalStateException("No libraries left on iterator");
+        return foundGAVs.pop();
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        HTMLBasedIndexIterator iterator = new HTMLBasedIndexIterator("https://maven.repository.redhat.com/ga/");
+        while (iterator.hasNext()) {
+            System.out.println(iterator.next());
+        }
+    }
+}
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