Overview

Artifactory provides two modes for browsing repositories: Tree Browsing and Simple Browsing.
Both browsing modes fully enforce the defined security rules to make sure you can do only permitted actions and see just the information you are allowed to see.

The default local URL when running Artifactory standalone is http://localhost:8081/artifactory. If the Artifactory war is deployed to another servlet container, this URL may vary according to the container-specific deployment configuration.

Tree Browsing

The Tree Browser (Artifacts:Tree Browser) provides rich information about repository items. For each selected artifact/folder/repository on the tree a tabbed panel offers detailed data views. Part of these data are action that can be performed on the selected item:

Viewing Maven Metadata and POMs

Artifactory provides ad-hoc views for maven metadata (maven-metadata.xml and POM files pom.xml as dedicated tabs when selecting the relevant tree item.

POM view

Maven metadata view

Download Statistics

In tree-mode browsing Artifactory also provides download statistics information for artifacts.

Simple Browser

The simple browser allows you to browse Artifactory using simple path-driven URLs, which are the same URLs used by a build client, such as Maven. It provides a lightweight, view-only browsing.
A unique features provided by this browsing mode is the ability to browse virtual repositories content in a consolidated way and see from each physical repository/s every folder and artifact is coming from.

List Browsing

List Browsing provides the most lightweight, read-only view and it is very similar to simple directory listing provides by HTTP servers.

To get to List Browsing click the small icon to the right of a repository name in the Simple Browser (marked in red in the screenshot above).

Creating public views with List Browsing One of the advantages of List Browsing is that it is mounted on a well-known path prefix - list: This allows a system administrator to create a virtual host that only exposes Artifactory's List Browsing feature to public users, while keeping all write and advanced, but potentially expensive UI and REST features (such as searches), for internal use.

Remote Browsing

Remote browsing provides the ability to navigate the contents of the remote repository even if the artifacts have not been cached locally yet.

To see the contents of a remote repository, make sure that "List Remote Folder Items" is checked in the remote repository configuration, and simply navigate via the the Simple Browser or List Browser the the remote repository.

An item (folder or artifact) that has not been cached yet will have a small globe icon to its right in the Simple Browser:.

In the List Browser a non-cached item will have an arrow to its right:

Initial remote browsing may be slow Initial remote browsing may be slow, especially when browsing a virtual repository that contains multiple remote repositories. Remote content is cached according to the "Retrieval Cache Period" defined in the remote repository configuration panel.

WebDAV Browsing

Any local or cache repository may be mounted as a secure WebDAV share, and made browsable from any WebDAV-supporting file manager, simply by referencing the URL of the target repository.
For example: http://host:port/artifactory/repo-path.