Re: Subversion 1.2.3 released.

Branko Čibej <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:29:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel,gmane.mail.eyebrowse.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ralph Seichter wrote:

> Branko Čibej wrote:
>
> > I couldn't reproduce this, but then, I'm not using client
> > certificates. So, it could either be a bug in the certificate
> > handling code, or it could be a bug in the server. What server are
> > you testing against? Is it on the same machine, so that your
> > removing the "share" directory affects the server, too?
>
> The client is running Windows XP with Subversion 1.2.3, the Server
> uses Apache 2.0.54 on Linux, also with Subversion 1.2.3.
>
> If I read the attached log excerpts right, Apache fails to extract
> data from the client certificate when the SVN client is using
> localized texts, because the user name recorded in the log is an
> empty string instead of "John Doe".
>
> I'm not sure if the CN part of the certificate is not found or if
> other certificate data is affected, but as Apache can't figure out
> who is trying to access the SVN repository, it returns "403
> forbidden".

This certainly looks like a bug. Please file an issue in the issue 
tracker (http://subversion.tigris.org/project_issues.html). Describe 
exactly what happens, and include a link to this thread in the mailing 
list archives.

-- Brane