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Unsupported method 'M-POST'
Last updated at 6:33 am UTC on 25 January 2006
If your machine is behind a HTTP proxy and you experience error reports similar to this
svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/squeak/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: REPORT of '/svn/squeak/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Request (http://squeakvm.org)
it may be the case that your proxy is not configured properly.


Quoted from http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#proxy:

The Subversion client can go through a proxy, if you configure it to do so. First, edit your "servers" configuration file to indicate which proxy to use. The files location depends on your operating system. On Linux or Unix it is located in the directory "~/.subversion". On Windows it is in "%APPDATA%\Subversion". (Try "echo %APPDATA%", note this is a hidden directory.)

There are comments in the file explaining what to do. If you don't have that file, get the latest Subversion client and run any command; this will cause the configuration directory and template files to be created.

Older versions of Subversion, including the 0.14.3 bootstrap tarball, use the file ~/.subversion/proxies to define the proxy settings. This file is ignored by the current version of Subversion.

Next, you need to make sure the proxy server itself supports all the HTTP methods Subversion uses. Some proxy servers do not support these methods by default: PROPFIND, REPORT, MERGE, MKACTIVITY, CHECKOUT. In general, solving this depends on the particular proxy software. For Squid, the config option is

   #  TAG: extension_methods
   #       Squid only knows about standardized HTTP request methods.
   #       You can add up to 20 additional "extension" methods here.
   #
   #Default:
   # none
   extension_methods REPORT MERGE MKACTIVITY CHECKOUT

(Squid 2.4 and later already knows about PROPFIND.)

See also "What are all the HTTP methods Subversion uses?" for advice on additional HTTP methods to allow through your proxy.



Alternatively, bypassing the proxy using a SOCKS5 wrapper library may be possible if your firewall supports that.

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