[SVN-2295] "svn mkdir URL" gives poor error message when directory exists

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: ---
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
• Component/s: mod_dav_svn
• Labels: patch
• Assignee: Justin Erenkrantz
• Reporter: Justin Erenkrantz
• Created: 02/May/05 22:36
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:30
• Resolved: 28/Jan/15 14:51

Description

% svn mkdir https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/myfaces/
svn: MKCOL of '/repos/asf/!svn/wrk/d60789ed-26f6-0310-bcf6-5792b5ac7a75/myfaces': 405 
Method Not Allowed (https://svn.apache.org)

This is the error message returned when a 'mkdir' is run on a directory already exists over WebDAV.  
This is a rather unintuitive error message.

Perhaps a 409 code (Conflict) could be more intuitive than a 405 (Method Not Allowed).

Also note that we could stick with 405 but fill up r->status_line with 'Directory already exists' rather 
than leaving it to be the 'default' status line.

This issue could also be combined with the 'bad error messages' issue; but I can't seem to find it.