Testing if a folder exists in a repository

Hi,

I'm trying to find a command or series of command to test if a given URL
points to an existing folder inside a repository.
Right now, I'm using this command:

svn info --xml http://my.server.com/repository/trunk/foldertotest

If "foldertotest" does not exist, it gives me an empty but valid XML
with a single "info" node. On the error output, I get a localized
message saying "Invalid URL"
If the server is unreachable, or that there is a typo in the URL part
before the repository, I get an invalid XML with the info node not being
closed. This way, I can know that there was an issue in accessing the
repository.
My problem comes from the fact that if there is a typo in the protocol
part (hptt instead of http for instance), then I still get an empty but
valid XML file, with the same "Invalid URL" message as when the folder
does not exist.

So my question is : how to reliably test for the existence of a folder
in a repository? Is it easily doable?
To make matters a bit more complex, I need to be able to do this under a
Windows OS.

Thanks for your help.
Regards
Olivier

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Received on 2009-06-04 10:15:43 CEST