Justin helped my get socat working on IRC. For archives sake, I basically am using it as a proxy. I added localhost:8080 as my proxy in servers and then it worked great.
Here is the response it logs in the failed request: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <D:options-response xmlns:D="DAV:"> <D:activity-collection-set><D:href>/svn/de< 2012/05/16 14:45:54.190315 length=74 from=1852 to=1925 sktop/!svn/act/</D:href></D:activity-collection-set></D:options-response> NOTE the length stuff that happened in the middle of the response? This is a successful request: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <D:options-response xmlns:D="DAV:"> <D:activity-collection-set><D:href>/svn/desktop/!svn/act/</D:href></D:activity-collection-set></D:options-response> I got these two responses just running svn up two times from the same terminal prompt. The first time, the command worked, the second time it failed. Mark