On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:10:22PM -0700, Jack Repenning wrote:
> At 7:47 AM -0500 9/9/03, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> >Steven Op de beeck <annika@ulyssis.org> writes:
> > > Is this a connection problem? Because the second time it always
> > succeeds.
> >>
> >> : 10:00 annika@fury rpms/sources; svn co
> >> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/0.29.0/ subversion-0.29.0
> >> svn: RA layer request failed
> >> svn: REPORT request failed on '/repos/svn/!svn/vcc/default'
> >> svn: The REPORT request returned invalid XML in the response: Unknown
> > > XML element `HTML (in )'. (/repos/svn/!svn/vcc/default)
> >
> >It's more likely that you have some kind of HTTP proxy interfering
> >with the REPORT request. Of course, if you're certain that this never
> >happens when issuing REPORT requests against other subversion servers,
> >then I'm not sure what the problem is.
>
> Could still be the proxy server, if all the working repos are
> _behind_ the proxy (that is, on the same side as the user), so those
> requests don't have to deal with it.
>
> The intermittent part seems odd, though: some proxies reject such
> requests, true, but they reject *all* such requests. To make this
> intermittent, I'd have to also suppose that there are several proxy
> gateways out of the user's network, with different proxy
> configurations, and some load-balancing router between the user and
> the gateway. Does that sound possible, Steven?
[snip]
Or round-robin DNS.
Maybe a packet capture would shed some light on this. (By the way,
can't the neon debug mask thing in the config file do this? Why does
everyone get told to run ethereal?)
--
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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Received on Tue Sep 9 21:17:00 2003