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Re: svn update via HTTPS works 95% of the time, then randomly shanks, "issuer not trusted"

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:19:13 +0300

Dan Yost wrote on Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:57:29 -0500:
> Or to state the below (pardon the top-post) much more simply: the
> --trust-server-cert flag does not work. It fails to perform its
> singular function, which is...to force trust of the server cert,
> right?
>

Its function is to accept certificates signed by unknown CA's without
prompting. In your case you have two failures, one of them being the
mismatching subject name (hostname), so you do get prompted.

> (Though I still think something else is going on, I can start there).
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Dan Yost <yodano_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm at my wit's end trying to debug a troubling, highly irregular
> > issue connecting to a SVN server via HTTPS. I am very confident this
> > is a client issue, not a server issue. The server is CollabNet's
> > Subversion Edge server, which has 1.6.15 built in. The client is
> > 1.6.15 running under Cygwin. I have many, many clients, most of which
> > are running Windows Server 2003 (if that matters)--all Cygwin, all
> > this same package. Lots of traffic every day. Almost all of it works
> > just fine.
> >
> > Now, a very important fact: the svn operations WORK 95% of the time.
> > They just work. Everything is absolutely fine. This is an unattended,
> > fully-automated environment, launched from cron (well, Task Scheduler
> > when running on these Windows boxes). 95% of the time, the job
> > launches, runs my "svn update" command from within one of its working
> > copies:
> >
> > svn update --username=some --password=thing --non-interactive
> >
> >
> > and it works beautifully.
> >
> > Every "once in awhile," for absolutely no reason I can find (have
> > looked at logs, logs, logs, timing, the stars and planets,
> > everything), with absolutely nothing that I can find having changed,
> > it dies with this:
> >
> >
> > svn: OPTIONS of 'https://myserver:9999/svn/some/path': Server
> > certificate verification failed: certificate issued for a different
> > hostname, issuer is not trusted (https://myserver:9999)
> >
> >
> > (I have changed the paths/ports to protect the innocent).
> >
> >
> > Now for most of my clients, the "issued for a different hostname" part
> > is omitted--they still have the "issuer not trusted" part. That's
> > because my one host that I'm really digging in to debug this has to
> > use a different hostname for certain reasons. So, focus on the "issuer
> > not trusted" part because that's what we see across all clients.
> >
> > But keep in mind: it works. It works 95% of the time. I change
> > absolutely nothing. Having found no indication of why it will
> > *randomly* fail with the above error, I decided to add the
> > "--trust-cerver-cert" flag, thinking surely this will eliminate all
> > woes. Just trust it and go (trust it like you already do 95% of the
> > time anyway)!
> >
> >
> > svn update --username=some --password=thing --non-interactive
> > --trust-server-cert
> >
> >
> > But, nope, I randomly get the very same error.
> >
> > These key facts:
> >
> > 1) It works 95% of the time (well, maybe 85%)
> >
> > 2) I can find NOTHING changing (on client or server) between a working
> > op and a breaking op--it's all automated, and just randomly shanks
> >
> >
> > are leading me to believe that this error message is actually a
> > complete wild goose chase, and that the problem is not actually
> > cert-based but is something else (with a wrong error message). In
> > looking at the server HTTP logs, it does indeed appear that the client
> > bails out before continuing the connection--there's no log, meaning it
> > does appear that the client can't handshake (or refuses to), and then
> > quits.
> >
> > I have thought about adding options to config (on the command line)
> > such as ssl-trust-default-ca, but again, I already told svn to
> > --trust-server-cert and it randomly still dies, so I don't think that
> > will help.
> >
> > You'll be tempted to focus on SSL cert issues on the server or
> > something, but remember that we don't change anything and it works
> > fine almost all the time! (I'm still open to any thoughts of course).
> >
> > Can anybody point me to some other debug options, some other flag, or
> > any other way to determine why, 15% of the time, it dies, yet 85% of
> > the time it updates just fine?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
Received on 2011-07-26 21:20:04 CEST

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