[SVN-4332] neon OPTIONS request on repository root causes authz access denied

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.x
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.9
• Component/s: libsvn_ra_neon
• Assignee: C. Michael Pilato
• Reporter: Philip Martin
• Created: 05/Mar/13 17:02
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:29
• Resolved: 28/Mar/13 18:22

Description

With authz file:

[/]
* =
[/A]
foo = rw

The 1.6/neon client can delete /A/B with

svn rm -mm http://localhost/tmp/repo/A/B --username foo

but the 1.7/neon client fails as it makes an OPTIONS request to /. The access
log for the 1.7 client looks like:

::1 - - [05/Mar/2013:16:58:18 +0000] "OPTIONS /obj/repo/A/B HTTP/1.1" 401 401
::1 - pm [05/Mar/2013:16:58:18 +0000] "OPTIONS /obj/repo/A/B HTTP/1.1" 200 188
::1 - pm [05/Mar/2013:16:58:18 +0000] "OPTIONS /obj/repo HTTP/1.1" 403 210

The 1.7/serf client works.

See:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/201303.mbox/[e-mail]%3E
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2013-03/0014.shtml

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SVN-4219 svn delete fails with "403 Forbidden" if root is not readable