This is just the Subversion operational log generated by mod_dav_svn. The 
interesting things would be in the apache access and/or error logs.

(Depending on the configuration of your apache these could be the same logfile)

 

The operational log just shows successful Subversion operations, so that 
doesn’t tell us much why a request failed.

 

                Bert

 

 

From: Chris Capon [mailto:ttab...@gmail.com] 
Sent: dinsdag 8 december 2015 15:29
To: users@subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: Unexpected HTTP status 400 'Bad request'.

 

Hi Bert.
The only log I know of is under /var/log/apache2/subversion.log, and when I 
issue a checkout, I get only two lines in it:

[08/Dec/2015:09:24:53  -500] myself get-inherited-props /dev/trunk r3066
[08/Dec/2015:09:24:53  -500] myself checkout-or-export /dev/trunk r3066

If the error were caused by a firewall or antivirus software, would it still 
make sense that the checkout begins and gets several files in before failing?  
Also, to try and eliminate that possibility, I've been performing the checkout 
tests on the subversion server machine.

On 2015-12-08 05:37, Bert Huijben wrote:

Usually you wouldn’t get ‘bad request’ errors from httpd unless Subversion 
sends a bad request. Server side errors as disk io are usually reported by 
other error codes, such as 500.

 

Most bad cases of status 400 are caused by firewall and antivirus products that 
somehow alter requests in unexpected ways. Another ‘expected’ case of this 
error is when Subversion sends too many headers to the server; we see this in 
some commits of subtrees with hundreds of locks. The investigation for this 
error code should start in the server log.

 

Except for that too much header data, the Subversion client should never 
generate a request that the server thinks is ‘bad’. That is what it tells with 
status 400.

 

But as noted before: more details should be in the server log (and often in the 
response body itself… but if there was usable data there Subversion should have 
noted that)

 

                Bert

 

From: Yves Martin [ <mailto:ymartin1...@gmail.com> 
mailto:ymartin1...@gmail.com] 
Sent: dinsdag 8 december 2015 11:06
To:  <mailto:users@subversion.apache.org> users@subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: Unexpected HTTP status 400 'Bad request'.

 

 Hello​

 

Is your repository served read-write by other services like svnserve or 
eventually through SSH in addition to Apache HTTPS access ?

 

If so you have to check your repository file permissions: owner, group and 
modes (for instance g+w or g+s...)

 

I guess your repository has been created long ago with a previous version of 
Subversion.

What is your repository format version ? Are some revisions packed ? Use 
svnadmin info.

 

Maybe you should use "svnadmin upgrade" to get some new features properly 
enabled with Subversion 1.9,

or even use dump/load procedure (or svnsync) to get your repository ready (and 
optimized) for Subversion 1.9.

 

Regards

-- 

Yves Martin

 

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