Dr. Rolf Jansen wrote:
The default version of Subversion in the Ports of FreeBSD has been switched
from 1.10.3 to 1.11.0 in the last week. After running the monthly update of my
FreeBSD machines I cannot connect to HTTPS repositories anymore.
I submitted a bug report to FreeBSD, see:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232945
The FreeBSD subversion port maintainer, verified that the same issue happens
with subversion 1.11 on Linux and Windows as well, and he asked me to report
the issue here.
In the meantime I deinstalled all subversion packages built from the FreeBSD
ports system, and I built and installed subversion 1.11.0 from the upstream
sources (thats’s yours) - see below. Needless to say that 1.10.3 does not show
the issue below, and of course the GitHub server does support HTTP/DAV.
If you check the list archives, you'll see that the thread immediately
before yours, "Problems accessing GitHub's SVN-bridge with SVN 1.11", is
about the exact same issue.
Unless I've completely misunderstood that thread, GitHub's custom
re-implmentation of SVN's HTTP/DAV support is slightly buggy, in that it
does not actually properly implement the underlying HTTP DAV protocol.
It's only now become an issue due to Subversion getting stricter about
checking for DAV protocol elements to better report certain errors.
-kgd
