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Re: Failure of long commits using dav_svn & SSL

From: Daniel Rall <dlr_at_collab.net>
Date: 2007-06-13 17:13:45 CEST

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Will Wilson wrote:

> I have a feeling this isn't an issue with subversion code, but
> nonetheless I thought it prudent to highlight the issue and solution in
> case anyone else should run into it...
>
> We're running Apache/2.0.55 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_auth_sspi/1.0.4
> mod_ssl/2.0.55 OpenSSL/0.9.8a SVN/1.4.3. This has all worked perfectly
> with the repositories accessed by https. A while ago some of our remote
> developers were finding their commits would fail when committing large
> files (60+ MB) to the repository. On the client(s) (TSVN 1.4.x) the
> failure would display as:
>
> PUT of '/svn/repos/!svn/wrk/GUID/path': authorization failed
> (https://server_name)
>
> In the server logs we saw:
>
> [error] [client x.x.x.x] (OS 87)The parameter is incorrect. :
> authentication failure for "/svn/repos/!svn/wrk/GUID/path": user
> unknown, reason: cannot generate context
> [error] [client x.x.x.x] Provider encountered an error while streaming a
> REPORT response. [500, #0]
> [error] [client x.x.x.x] A failure occurred while driving the update
> report editor [500, #620019]
> [error] [client x.x.x.x] Error writing base64 data: APR does not
> understand this error code [500, #620019]
>
> It seems that increasing the SSLSessionCacheTimeout parameter "resolves"
> the issue. Ours was originally 5 minutes, after increasing it to an hour
> the issue disappeared.
>
> Hopefully this will be useful to someone.

Has anyone else run into this? If so, we might want to add it to the FAQ.

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