[Aldor-l] PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/trunk'

[Bill Page]

Laurentiu,

At aldor.org it says:

...
To obtain a full source tree do:

   svn co http://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca/svn/trunk
...

But doing this on some machines located on a network behind a strict
firewall and/or proxy server might give the following error message:

C:\>svn co http://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca/svn/trunk
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/trunk'
svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/trunk': Could not read status line: An existing
connection
was forcibly closed by the remote host.   (http://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca)

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This is a problem at some places where I work.

The problem is that not all proxy servers support the PROPFIND method
required by svn when using the 'http' protocol. The use of 'https'
instead of 'http' avoids this problem. Since the 'aquarium' server
apparently supports 'https', I think the web page at aldor.org should
actually recommend the following svn command:

  svn co https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca/svn/trunk aldor-source

to download the Aldor source. Note: I think that for the sake of
people new to svn you should also show a target directory name like
'aldor-source' above since the default directory name of 'trunk' does
make much sense.

Regards,
Bill Page.