RE: RewriteRule breaks slave SVN commits for 1.6.x clients only

Designation: Non-SSA/Finmeccanica

Daniel Shahaf wrote:

> The Apache Subversion Project does not release binaries, official or otherwise. CollabNet, Inc. is > one of several third parties who build and release binaries of our software.

Just letting everyone know what binaries I was using incase this behavior is unique to their configuration.

>> The problem was due to a RewriteRule on the master and/or slave:
>>
>> # Redirect to remove double slash within URL-path RewriteCond
>> %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)//+(.*)$ RewriteRule .*
>> https://%{SERVER_NAME}%1/%2 [R=301,L]
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I don't mind removing this RewriteRule from the configuration file,
>
> Seems like that's a solution then.

That's a solution much like cutting off a finger to get rid of a splinter. Yeah it works, but...

> (And, by the way, your RewriteRule is less than ideal; it causes a
> repeated request for each doubled slash: http://foo/bar/////baz)

How so? I thought the plus sign after the second slash will capture one or more slashes? Could you provide a revised expression?

>> but I'm still wondering why this breaks ONLY slave commits and ONLY
>> on older clients?
>
> Don't know. You haven't said what version the master server runs, though.

I stated that this started happening "when I upgraded from the latest 1.6.x server to the 1.7.1" one. Both master and slave servers were upgraded simultaneously. In fact, they're now at 1.7.2, but the issue persists.

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Received on 2011-12-20 20:52:41 CET