Subversion Check Out Suddenly Not Working

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Subversion Check Out Suddenly Not Working

The error only occurs for 'http' subversion URLs; 'https' subversion URLs are not impacted.

This is drying me nuts for last 5 days!!!

Out of the blue 5 days ago, SVN access from my MacBook Pro failed: I cannot access any SVN (i.e. not in our University or open source projects etc).

The error obtain when performing 'svn co', or any other svn commands is shown below.

This is same message is obtained irrespective of the svn repository (i.e. it is something due to my Macbook)

$svn co http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/i2mi/branches/GROUPER_1_6_BRANCH/

$svn: OPTIONS of 'http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/i2mi/branches/GROUPER_1_6_BRANCH': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://anonsvn.internet2.edu)

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Sep 9, 2012 2:52 PM

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ppohja

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Oct 16, 2012 4:27 AM in response to magnacarta

I'm experiencing the same problem on MBP running 10.7.5. Some other guys are reporting a similar problem at http://superuser.com/questions/472084/svn-error-when-connecting-from-macbook

The svn+ssh connection and https connections work all ok. My other machine, running the same OS version does not have the problem.

An interesting thing is that I tried to run svn on a Ubuntu inside a virtualbox. It is experiencing the same results: svn ls http:// does not work; svn ls https:// works.

A note at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12808500/svn-could-not-read-status-line-error -on-checkout suggests that the culprit could be the Cisco VPN client. I've recently upgraded to Cisco AnyConnect 3.1, and at about the same time svn ls http:// stopped working.

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