SVN via https certification chain ignored

Hi,

we are running a configuration with an svn repository being server via
apache using https (mod_dav).

Today we have installed a "real" SSL certificate. As our certificate
is signed by two intermediate certificates before reaching the root
CA, we have configured the "SSLCertificateChainFile" to provide the
full certificate chain.

Testing the certificate in a web browser (Safari, Firefox, IE) works
fine and the certificate is considered to valid (as all the
intermediate certificates are severed as well).

Trying "svn checkout" I obtain different results.
1) Windows 7, with TortoiseSVN -> no certificate warning
2) Debian Lenny with svn 1.6.12 -> no certificate warning
3) Mac OS X Lion with svn 1.6.16 -> warning about the certificate
being signed by an unknown issue.

I tested to checkout something from svn.apache.org or from
svn.sourceforge.net on my mac and got the same certificate warning.

Why is Mac OS X Lion not capable to checking the certificates
correctly? To me it seems like it ignores the intermediate
certificates served from Apache. Or is there something wrong in my
configuration?

Thanks a lot for any help
/Florian
Received on 2011-09-16 20:28:34 CEST