@mark thx for the hint with the other list!
FYI here to this users@subversion.apache.org list ... i used the Eclipse standard svn checkout UI (new svn project wizard) to select the branch, so i would assume the URL is not the real problem ;-) Server: Subversion 1.6.11 (r934486) Here are some strange logentries from the apache error.log: [Wed Jul 31 09:39:51 2013] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Could not fetch resource information. [301, #0] [Wed Jul 31 09:39:51 2013] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (17)File exists: Requests for a collection must have a trailing slash on the URI. [301, #0] [Wed Jul 31 09:52:38 2013] [error] [client x.x.x.x] request failed: error reading the headers [Wed Jul 31 09:52:49 2013] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Invalid URI in request \xff\xfb\x1f\xff\xfb \xff\xfb\x18\xff\xfb'\xff\xfd\x01\xff\xfb\x03\xff\xfd\x03 GET / HTTP/1.0 ... any suggestions? Regards, Wolfgang Von: Mark Phippard [mailto:markp...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 31. Juli 2013 15:51 An: us...@subclipse.tigris.org Betreff: Re: [Subclipse-users] Server 1.6 checkout problem On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Wolfgang Pinitsch <wolfgang.pinit...@hyperwave.com> wrote: We are still running an older svn server (1.6) and i was trying to do a simple fresh checkout of my branch. All i get is this message: Console output: checkout http://svn/xxx/test -r HEAD --depth=infinity --force APR does not understand this error code svn: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'http://svn/xxx/test' svn: Error running context: The server sent an improper HTTP response I would first triple check that you are entering the right URL. Other than that, I would guess this is a bug in Subversion 1.8. It uses a new library for HTTP communication and there have been a lot of bugs surfacing due to less common configurations such as proxy servers that advertise support for HTTP/1.1 but then do not fully support it. The old library apparently new how to deal with those issues better. Many of the known bugs were fixed in SVN 1.8.1, but I have not seen this on the mailing list. I can say that it is not a general problem with an older server. Subclipse is hosted on a SVN 1.6 server and we are able to checkout and use it OK. It would be great to have you gather more information that could be reported on users@subversion.apache.org so that they could fix the problem. Failing that, I would say to just uinstall this Subclipse version and install the latest Subclipse 1.8.x version instead of 1.10.x and you should be all set. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/