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firewall problem (maybe)

by Clint Pidlubny :: Rate this Message:

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Hello,

I'm trying to access a subversion repos on a server external from my office. From home I have no problem accessing it, but from the office no luck. First I tried accessing an authentication required repos, but was only getting the "svn : PROPFIND request failed on http://site/svn/etc", so I tired accessing a publicly available repos with the same results.

I'm not using SSH, so my assumption is that the connection would be happening on PORT 80, which is not blocked at my org. Also, I can access both repos from my browser.

I'm using SVN 1.3.0.

I'm guessing it is likely a firewall issue, but I'd like to confirm it. Has anyone experienced a similar issue and if so, did you resolve it and how?

Thanks

Clint Pidlubny

Re: firewall problem (maybe)

by Ryan Schmidt-15 :: Rate this Message:

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On Oct 24, 2006, at 10:04, Clint Pidlubny wrote:

> I'm trying to access a subversion repos on a server external from  
> my office. From home I have no problem accessing it, but from the  
> office no luck. First I tried accessing an authentication required  
> repos, but was only getting the "svn : PROPFIND request failed on  
> http://site/svn/etc", so I tired accessing a publicly available  
> repos with the same results.
>
> I'm not using SSH, so my assumption is that the connection would be  
> happening on PORT 80, which is not blocked at my org. Also, I can  
> access both repos from my browser.
>
> I'm using SVN 1.3.0.
>
> I'm guessing it is likely a firewall issue, but I'd like to confirm  
> it. Has anyone experienced a similar issue and if so, did you  
> resolve it and how?

Sounds like your firewall (or maybe a proxy server) is blocking or  
mangling PROPFIND requests, which the Subversion client uses. The web  
browser only uses GET requests, which is why you do not see the  
problem there. Either fix your firewall or proxy, or switch to https  
access, since with https the content of the packet is encrypted and  
the proxy and/or firewall are not able to read its contents, so they  
cannot mangle or filter it.



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Re: firewall problem (maybe)

by Clint Pidlubny :: Rate this Message:

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Sounds like your firewall (or maybe a proxy server) is blocking or
mangling PROPFIND requests, which the Subversion client uses. The web
browser only uses GET requests, which is why you do not see the
problem there. Either fix your firewall or proxy, or switch to https
access, since with https the content of the packet is encrypted and
the proxy and/or firewall are not able to read its contents, so they
cannot mangle or filter it.





That's what I suspected. Thanks.

Clint