> -----Original Message----- > From: Bartosz Fabianowski [mailto:free...@chillt.de] > Sent: 23 June 2013 20:21 > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: ra_serf PROPFIND refused by Nginx > > Hi list, > > I recently switched from svn 1.7 to 1.8 and with it, from > neon to serf. > I am now getting the following error for many repositories: > > % svn co http://svn.mkgmap.org.uk/mkgmap/trunk > svn: E175004: The PROPFIND response did not include the > requested properties > > Wireshark tells me that this is because the PROPFIND request > was refused > by the server with HTTP error 411, length required. Even though the > server claims to support HTTP 1.1, chunked transfer encoding does not > appear to work. The server identifies itself as Nginx, which > leads me to > believe that I am dealing with a reverse proxy. > > I worked around the issue by modifying > subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c > to force HTTP 1.0: > > - /* HTTP/1.1? (or later) */ > - if (sl.version != SERF_HTTP_10) > - handler->session->http10 = FALSE; > > Clearly, always forcing HTTP 1.0 is not the right solution. But maybe > svn should automatically switch to HTTP 1.0 when it receives a 411 > response to a chunked request, telling it that the server (or a proxy) > does not support chunked transfers? > > - Bartosz
FYI there was some discussion about this issue with nginx last week, this thread (amonsgt others) for example: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2013-06/0180.shtml ~ mark c
