[SVN-4431] HEAD requests used without authentication

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.x
• Fix Version/s: ---
• Component/s: libsvn_ra_serf
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bert Huijben
• Created: 26/Sep/13 12:54
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:28
• Resolved: 26/Sep/13 12:56

Description

When libsvn_ra_serf performs a 'HEAD' request as part of the commit handling, 
and this request isn't pre-authenticated (E.g. one request per connection) the 
request isn't retried with authentication.

This problem is caused by a bug in 'serf' which was fixed in serf trunk in 
r2178.

This problem can be seen as a
$ svn ci test2.txt --message "test 1.8.1 checkin" 
Adding test2.txt 
svn: E155011: Commit failed (details follow): 
svn: E155011: File 'C:\SVN_Test\test2.txt' is out of date 
svn: E175005: File 'test2.txt' already exists 

Because Subversion (pre r1526439) handled every HTTP status except 404 as a 
trigger to report that the file already existed.

r1526439 updates the libsvn_ra_serf behavior to show different errors for 
unexpected status codes.

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2013-08/0035.shtml