Summarising our investigation:
1. The error that Johan receives is caused by the body of a 501 Method
Not Implemented response (see [1]) being directly appended to a
response to a GET request.
2. The request that triggered this response is this: DAV:
http://subversion.tigris.org/xmlns/dav/svn/log-revprops
So apache thinks the request method is "DAV:" and returns the error.
It's not clear to me why apache doesn't send a status line but just
the html body of the 501 response, but that's not really the cause of
this particular issue.
3. The "DAV: http://subversion.tigris.org/xmlns/dav/svn/log-revprops"
request is actually a header of a request.
In the pcap file provided by Johan we see the following request:
[
GET /repos/asf/!svn/rvr/1516638/subversion/tags/1.8.3/subversion/tests/cmdline/upgrade_tests_data/upgrade_absent.tar.bz2
HTTP/1.1
Host: svn.apache.org
User-Agent: SVN/1.9.0-dev (x86-microsoft-windows) serf/1.3.1
DAV: http://subversion.tigris.org/xmlns/dav/svn/depth
DAV: http://subversion.tigris.org/xmlns/dav/svn/log-revprops
]
There is a header missing between .../depth and .../log-revprops,
other similar requests have there the header: "DAV:
http://subversion.tigris.org/xmlns/dav/svn/mergeinfo". There is a
spurious CRLF where the ../mergeinfo header should be.
Apache will assume based on the lack of Content-Length or chunked
encoding header that the body of this request is empty, so will
interpret the CRLF from the missing header as the end of the request.
The line "DAV: http://subversion.tigris.org/xmlns/dav/svn/log-revprops"
will then be considered the request line of the next request.
4. The question now is (and remains) why that header is missing and
replaced by CRLF.
Strangely enough, the serf 1.3.1 debug log shows that serf actually
wrote that header to the socket layer, yet in the pcap file it's
missing.
I don't exclude an error in serf's logging yet, but the code (in
socket_writev) looks alright to me.
Not sure what that means, anti virus modifying packet data maybe?
Lieven
[1]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>501 Method Not Implemented</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Method Not Implemented</h1>
<p>DAV: to /xmlns/dav/svn/log-revprops not supported.<br />
</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.25 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_wsgi/3.1 Python/2.7.2
SVN/1.8.1 mod_ssl/2.2.25 OpenSSL/1.0.1e Server at
subversion.tigris.org Port 80</address>
</body></html>
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I get an error when exporting
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.8.3, with trunk@now
> + serf 1.3.1:
>
> [[[
> svn export -q http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.8.3
> ..\..\..\subversion\svn\export-cmd.c:127,
> ..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_client\export.c:1441,
> ..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_client\export.c:1334,
> ..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_ra_serf\update.c:2978,
> ..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_ra_serf\util.c:2186,
> ..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_ra_serf\util.c:2167,
> ..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_ra_serf\update.c:1147: (apr_err=120104)
> svn: E120104: ra_serf: An error occurred during decompression
> ]]]
>
> It doesn't happen always, but say 8 times out of 10 (in different
> places during the export).
>
> I haven't been able to reproduce it with serf 1.2.1, nor with serf
> 1.3.1 via https. Only with serf 1.3.1 exporting from http.
>
> --
> Johan
Received on 2013-08-25 01:26:45 CEST