OPTIONS of 'http://.../projName': could not connect to server (http://...)

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Elijah M

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Jan 25, 2011, 5:18:34 PM1/25/11
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I have seen hundreds of posts on this topic over the past year and never have I seen an answer.

I am running Windows 64 Vista HP
TSVN 1.6.6. (I downgraded after trying 1.6.11 and 1.6.12) or what aver the last 2 releases were.
Connecting to Subversion repository I think 1.5.

The other guy I work with connects to the server with no problems. For the past year I have NEVER been able to get TSVN to connect to the repository.

Server and Config file are all commented out.
I have tried disabling my FW also but that did nothing.

I can ping the server.
I can browse the repository through IE.
I can pull and push projects using my IntelliJ software.
I CAN NOT do a darn thing with TSVN. Someone please tell me what is going on other than the fact I'm stuck on this G.D. Windows Vista machine.

Yes the url is correct.
So another thing, where does TSVN store the information that it knows what url to go to when I right click on a folder and say to do an update? I can not find any files with the URL I am hitting in any of my appData folders, registry or tsvn folders.

Thanks All.

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Robert Duchnik

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Jan 25, 2011, 8:50:16 PM1/25/11
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Is there any specific error you are getting? I'm using tortoiseSVN on
my Vista machine right now, never had any problems with it, how are
you entering the URL in your browser and how are you entering your URL
in tortoiseSVN?

http://www.duchnik.com/tutorials/vc/installing-and-configuring-svn-on-centos

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Elijah M

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Jan 25, 2011, 9:07:54 PM1/25/11
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Also, this has been plauging me for the past year. I started with TortoiseSVN 1.6.10, sometime last year I upped it to 1.6.11 then recently went to 1.6.12 still nothing works.

And as I said in original post co-worker has 1.6.6 but he runs on Win XP 64.

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Elijah M

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Jan 25, 2011, 9:11:55 PM1/25/11
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This is the latest error message I get for all attempts through TSVN and cmd prompts.

Command: Update
Error: OPTIONS of 'http://.myip./projName': could not connect to server (http://.myip.)
Finished!:

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Judson Wilson

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Jan 25, 2011, 9:26:01 PM1/25/11
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Firewall?

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Simon Large

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Jan 26, 2011, 4:14:10 AM1/26/11
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On 26 January 2011 02:11, Elijah M <edjm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the latest error message I get for all attempts through TSVN and cmd prompts.
>
> Command: Update
> Error: OPTIONS of 'http://.myip./projName': could not connect to server (http://.myip.)
> Finished!:

My guess is that if you try this with the subversion command line
client you will get the same problem, i.e. the issue is not directly
with TortoiseSVN. Do you have a proxy server which doesn't like the
non-standard http commands that subversion uses? Have you tried https
instead of http?

Simon

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TvT

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Jan 26, 2011, 4:31:14 AM1/26/11
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Hi,

do you use a proxy?
We have similar problems with tortoise as you can read in my post from 17.01.2011 " Proxy problems in tortoise versions later then 1.6.6 / 1.6.10 "

Regards,
ToM

2011/1/26 Elijah M <edjm...@gmail.com>

Josh Reynolds

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Jan 26, 2011, 8:02:32 AM1/26/11
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You might try using wireshark to sniff packets while attempting to
connect to the svn server and see if that gives you any clue as to
what's going on. One odd thing I've noticed about vista/win7 is that it
will sometimes think it should be using ipv6 rather than ipv4, and
chances are your svn server isn't responding to ipv6 connections. You
may also want to check your hosts
(c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) file for any weirdness there.

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Elijah M

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Jan 26, 2011, 9:42:16 AM1/26/11
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Honestly I doubt I have any proxy server for a couple simple reasons
1. I don't know what a proxy server is exactly, only that it has to do with corporate firewalls or something like that. And I am working from home over a paid internet service.
2. The other guy working from home has no problems with connecting via http://
3. And my development software IntelliJ IDEA connects to the repository

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Elijah M

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Jan 26, 2011, 9:46:14 AM1/26/11
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What do you mean to check for weirdness?

(c:\windows\system​32\drivers\etc\ho​sts) file for any weirdness there.

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Elijah M

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Jan 26, 2011, 10:05:33 AM1/26/11
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Alright everyone, I found the dang file that was killing me.

Environment
Windows Vista 64 HP
TortoiseSVN 1.6.6

I turned off the windows feature that hides all protected files and folders.
Found a folder in root called 'C:\ProgramData\'.
Inside of this folder was a folder 'Subversion' with a file called 'servers'. No file extension on the file. So the path was
C:\ProgramData\Subversion\servers
I used notepad to look in it and saw all my projects listed under proxy- entries.
I changed the file to bkup.server (so i could revert just in case).
Then right clicked in Windows Explorer window did an update and POOF, magic, it worked.

I hope this spares someone else out there a lot of misery.

Thank you all for your help in this.

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Josh Reynolds

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Jan 26, 2011, 10:05:34 AM1/26/11
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I just mean anything that might be causing you not to be able to resolve
the address of the svn server. It's very unlikely that's the problem if
you can ping it or connect to it in some other way.

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Andy Levy

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Jan 26, 2011, 10:17:02 AM1/26/11
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:05, Elijah M <edjm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alright everyone, I found the dang file that was killing me.
>
> Environment
> Windows Vista 64 HP
> TortoiseSVN 1.6.6
>
> I turned off the windows feature that hides all protected files and folders.
> Found a folder in root called 'C:\ProgramData\'.
> Inside of this folder was a folder 'Subversion' with a file called 'servers'. No file extension on the file. So the path was
> C:\ProgramData\Subversion\servers
> I used notepad to look in it and saw all my projects listed under proxy- entries.
> I changed the file to bkup.server (so i could revert just in case).
> Then right clicked in Windows Explorer window did an update and POOF, magic, it worked.

That's a non-default location; someone (perhaps you, perhaps not you)
had to go out of their way to point Tortoise at that location for
configuration.

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TvT

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Jan 26, 2011, 10:23:38 AM1/26/11
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You can check your web browser setting if you are behind a proxy.
Most of your applications are (automatically) use your browser settings to connect to the internet.
 

Regards,
ToM


IE:
On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, click the Connections tab, and then click LAN Settings.
Is the proxy box checked?

Firefox:
  1. Right click on the shortcut in start menu and select Mozilla Firefox Options.
  2. Click on the Advanced category.
  3. Click on Network tab.
  4. Click Settings under Connection.
  5. Check Manual proxy configuration.

=> If in one of the browser 'automatic detection' is enabled than disable that and try to browse to a webpage to see if you can still connect to the net...


2011/1/26 Elijah M <edjm...@gmail.com>

Dale McCoy

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Jan 26, 2011, 10:59:31 AM1/26/11
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:23, TvT <tvtr...@nepatec.de> wrote:
> You can check your web browser setting if you are behind a proxy.
Sometimes.

One of my prior ISPs silently routed all traffic on port 80 through
their proxies. I had my computer set to no proxy, but my http traffic
was still proxied.
It is likely possible to detect this by comparing
http://www.whatismyip.com/ to https://www.whatismyip.com/ (http versus
https), or by comparing the insecure version to your DHCP lease. In
either case, however, the insecure version is vulnerable to
modification by the proxy.

Dale McCoy

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Mark Irving

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Jan 26, 2011, 11:30:38 AM1/26/11
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Andy Levy writes

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:05, Elijah M <edjm1971 at gmail dot com> wrote:
So the path was
> > C:\ProgramData\Subversion\servers

> That's a non-default location; someone (perhaps you, perhaps not you)


> had to go out of their way to point Tortoise at that location for
> configuration.

The file is not created by Subversion, but the directory is a standard Subversion location. See

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.confarea.html#svn.advanced.confarea.layout

for details. That's the usual location for the common application data under Windows Vista and 7. (This is part of Subversion in general, not just TortoiseSVN.)

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Arthur Schwarz

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Jan 26, 2011, 7:00:57 PM1/26/11
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Is there any way to determine the location of all files needed by TSVN from withing TSVN? If not, is there any way of putting this in a future release? And since the issue, resolution, and comments are quite clear in this case, is there any way of providing a specific diagnostic message that indicate "you failed, and oh by the way, this is why"?

thanks
art


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Elijah M

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Jan 27, 2011, 8:07:31 AM1/27/11
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feature request. 'Arthur Schwarz' suggestion and the following
I think it would be so very useful to have a full listing of what files are created and where that deal with users configuration.
This way people will not have to spend the amount of time I had to and guess what to delete or change.
In addition to the configuration file locations snippets of what is to be in those files.

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Felix Saphir

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Jan 27, 2011, 8:16:50 AM1/27/11
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Am 27.01.2011 14:07, schrieb Elijah M:
> feature request. 'Arthur Schwarz' suggestion and the following I
> think it would be so very useful to have a full listing of what files
> are created and where that deal with users configuration. This way
> people will not have to spend the amount of time I had to and guess
> what to delete or change. In addition to the configuration file
> locations snippets of what is to be in those files.

I don't think that you ran into a common problem, otherwise people would
complain more often.

The location of files installed by TortoiseSVN could well be integrated
in the documentation (I didn't check if that's already the case).

There should be no need to manually delete or edit files.

So I suggest to add the solution to your problem to the documentation
instead of implementing this feature.

Felix

P.S. please quote some context in your messages (and don't just change
the subject)

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Simon Large

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Jan 27, 2011, 8:58:43 AM1/27/11
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On 27 January 2011 13:16, Felix Saphir <felix....@kantarmedia.de> wrote:
> Am 27.01.2011 14:07, schrieb Elijah M:
>> feature request. 'Arthur Schwarz' suggestion and the following I
>> think it would be so very useful to have a full listing of what files
>> are created and where that deal with users configuration. This way
>> people will not have to spend the amount of time I had to and guess
>> what to delete or change. In addition to the configuration file
>> locations snippets of what is to be in those files.
>
> I don't think that you ran into a common problem, otherwise people would
> complain more often.
>
> The location of files installed by TortoiseSVN could well be integrated
> in the documentation (I didn't check if that's already the case).

The file is added by subversion. My suggestion is to add a second edit
button to the settings page to allow direct editing of the servers
file as well as the config file.

> There should be no need to manually delete or edit files.
>
> So I suggest to add the solution to your problem to the documentation
> instead of implementing this feature.

Simon

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Stefan Küng

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Jan 27, 2011, 12:20:37 PM1/27/11
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On 27.01.2011 14:58, Simon Large wrote:
> On 27 January 2011 13:16, Felix Saphir<felix....@kantarmedia.de> wrote:
>> Am 27.01.2011 14:07, schrieb Elijah M:
>>> feature request. 'Arthur Schwarz' suggestion and the following I
>>> think it would be so very useful to have a full listing of what files
>>> are created and where that deal with users configuration. This way
>>> people will not have to spend the amount of time I had to and guess
>>> what to delete or change. In addition to the configuration file
>>> locations snippets of what is to be in those files.
>>
>> I don't think that you ran into a common problem, otherwise people would
>> complain more often.
>>
>> The location of files installed by TortoiseSVN could well be integrated
>> in the documentation (I didn't check if that's already the case).
>
> The file is added by subversion. My suggestion is to add a second edit
> button to the settings page to allow direct editing of the servers
> file as well as the config file.

Already there: the "proxy" page in the settings dialog has an edit
button for the servers file.

Stefan

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