title: Pom.xml error while importing spring boot starter project
body: <p>I am downloading a project from Spring Initializr and pasting it to Intellij idea.
  This issue keeps persisting</p>
  <p>Could not transfer artifact org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-parent:pom:2.3.3.RELEASE from/to central (<a href="https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</a>): Transfer failed for <a href="https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-starter-parent/2.3.3.RELEASE/spring-boot-starter-parent-2.3.3.RELEASE.pom" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-starter-parent/2.3.3.RELEASE/spring-boot-starter-parent-2.3.3.RELEASE.pom</a> ProxyInfo{host='123.45.6.78', userName='null', port=80, type='http', nonProxyHosts='null'}</p>
  <p>My Pom.xml is as follows.</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;
  &lt;project xmlns=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0&quot; xmlns:xsi=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot;
           xsi:schemaLocation=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd&quot;&gt;
      &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
      &lt;parent&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;2.3.3.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;relativePath/&gt; &lt;!-- lookup parent from repository --&gt;
      &lt;/parent&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;com.example&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;rooms&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;name&gt;rooms&lt;/name&gt;
      &lt;description&gt;Chatting room&lt;/description&gt;
  
      &lt;properties&gt;
          &lt;java.version&gt;14&lt;/java.version&gt;
      &lt;/properties&gt;
  
      &lt;dependencies&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-data-jpa&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-web&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;com.h2database&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;h2&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;runtime&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-test&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
              &lt;exclusions&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.junit.vintage&lt;/groupId&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;junit-vintage-engine&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
              &lt;/exclusions&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-autoconfigure&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.3.3.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  
      &lt;build&gt;
          &lt;plugins&gt;
              &lt;plugin&gt;
                  &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;/plugin&gt;
          &lt;/plugins&gt;
      &lt;/build&gt;
  
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>What i tried:</p>
  <ol>
  <li>editing the settings.xml file according to this thread <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15334394/could-not-transfer-artifact-org-apache-maven-pluginsmaven-surefire-pluginpom2">Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:pom:2.7.1 from/to central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)</a></li>
  <li>deleting .m2 folder in maven</li>
  <li>Invalidate caches and restart</li>
  </ol>
  <p>I have seen a lot of stackoverflow posts but sadly none of them seem to work.
  How to resolve this ?
  Thanks.</p>