In case anyone is experiencing similar problems with SVN, here's a quick note of my experience recently...
I've spent the past few days building a completely clean SuSE 9.1 system with all the features necessary to support dev+test of Beehive. Looking at the code from tar.gz dumps is highly inferior to sync'ing via Code Management, so I added the SVN module to NetBeans (3.6) and attempted to check-out. No success. Failure, actually. PROPFIND not supported by svn.apache.org. Puzzlement. I tried all kinds of things, and eventually decided to leave it a day or two. (We were in the middle of rehoming our corporate network, so there was plenty of firefighting to occupy me anyway.) Returned to it yesterday. Today: decided to do some packet analysis. (Ethereal is pretty handy.) The evidence of the packet analysis revealed the problem. The "not supported" response was not coming from Apache. It was coming from our firewall, which was running a transparent proxy and filtering out what it considered to be "suspect behaviour". There's no simple way around this, though perhaps a planned local firewall upgrade will help, whenever that gets implemented. So, if you've been having difficulties getting SVN to work, check for transparent firewall HTTP proxies. ---Rotan. PS This can also affect HTTP PUT operations, in case you use such a mechanism for updates.
