[SVN-3481] forward slashes in property names break HTTP transport

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: blue-sky
• Component/s: mod_dav_svn
• Labels: api
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 10/Sep/09 16:25
• Updated: 26/Dec/13 19:06

Description

The subversion client seems to have trouble parsing data sent by
mod_dav_svn in some rare cases. The HTTP layer appears to be
working fine, but parsing the XML data received fails. 

This can be caused by forward slashes (/) in svn property names. E.g.:

svn ls -r45181 http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/dist (pcap trace at
http://samba.org/~jelmer/subversion-http-slash-propname.cap)

In this particular case the property named
"bzr:revision-id-v3:single-pypy/dist" is problematic.

serf gives: svn: XML parsing failed: (411 Length Required) 
neon gives: svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/!svn/bc/45181/pypy/dist': 207 Unknown
(http://codespeak.net)

Original issue reported by jrvernooij