Ashish, This is normally a question for users@, but I think Lieven was working on something exactly like this already. I've cc'd him for more detail.
Cheers, -g On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Ashish SHUKLA <ashish...@lostca.se> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having problems connecting my subversion client to talk to my subversion > repositories over HTTPS. I've two subversion repositories (version 1.7), both > of which require HTTP Basic authentication, on different hosts. > > On my client-side, I've a ~/.subversion/servers file configured to use HTTP > proxy, a polipo instance running locally. Now when I connect to repository A > using subversion client, it works fine. But when I connect to repository B, I > get HTTP Error "501 Method Not Implemented". > > I truss-ed the polipo instance, and noticed that when subversion client > connects to repository A, it sends "CONNECT repository-a.domain.tld:443..." > request to proxy, and then uses that throughout the session. Whereas when > subversion client connects to repository B, it sends "CONNECT > repository-b.domain.tld:443..." to proxy, and after that it sends "OPTIONS > https://repository-b.domain.tld/ HTTP/1.1\r\nWWW-Authenticate:....\r\n" to > proxy to which proxy responds with "501 Method Not Implemented". > > I looked at httpd configurations of both hosts, and found that repository-a's > httpd is having "KeepAlive On", whereas repository-b's httpd has it Off. I > added "KeepAlive On" on repository-b's httpd, and it started working as well. > > So from what I understand about this problem, is that svn client should have > sent 2nd request OPTIONS request also in a CONNECT request. I used subversion > 1.7, as well as 1.8 to test it. > > I could file a bug-report if it seems like bug. > > I'm not part of the list, so if you could Cc me in replies, it would be great. > > Thanks > -- > Ashish SHUKLA > > “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every > six > months.” (Oscar Wilde) > > Sent from my Emacs
