Re: [VOTE]: Default http-client for 1.7 Serf or Neon

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 08:39, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Example problem (one that I could actually pinpoint):
> User tried a big merge
> Merge failed every time, but every time at a different point in the
> merge process
> Switching to neon solved the problem
>
> Asked the user to retry with serf, failed again.
> Several emails later I found that their firewall software would start
> blocking TSVN from accessing the repository. Disabling the firewall
> made serf work too.
> I have no idea why the firewall would block only serf requests and not
> neon, but that's what we found.

Just found this:
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-06/0625.shtml

maybe that's why the firewall blocked it?
Just a guess of course...

Stefan

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