Hello, Suppose you have a repository with authz: [/] * = [/directory] * = rw
And the repository (http://localhost:43714/repos) contains a directory (with "rw" access) and a file in it. File deletion fails with the following stacktrace (tried with SVN r1350986): $ svn rm http://localhost:43714/repos/directory/file --username user --password password -m "" subversion/svn/delete-cmd.c:90: (apr_err=130003) subversion/svn/util.c:913: (apr_err=130003) subversion/libsvn_client/delete.c:409: (apr_err=130003) subversion/libsvn_client/delete.c:315: (apr_err=130003) subversion/libsvn_client/delete.c:217: (apr_err=130003) subversion/libsvn_delta/deprecated.c:52: (apr_err=130003) subversion/libsvn_delta/path_driver.c:169: (apr_err=130003) subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/commit.c:1300: (apr_err=130003) subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/options.c:381: (apr_err=130003) subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:780: (apr_err=130003) subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:737: (apr_err=130003) subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:1980: (apr_err=130003) subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:1961: (apr_err=130003) subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:2418: (apr_err=130003) svn: E130003: The OPTIONS response contains invalid XML (403 Forbidden) With SVN 1.6 everything is ok. The problem is easily reproducible.