TortoiseSVN Error OPTIONS of https could not connect to server

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I m trying to setup a new computer to synchronize with my SVN repository that s hosted with cvsdude com   I get this error     SVN Error  1  - removed image shack image that had been replaced by an advert  Here s what I did  these have worked in the past     Downloaded and installed TortoiseSVN Created a new folder C  aspwebsite Right-clicked  chose SVN Checkout    Entered the following information  clicked OK    URL of repository  https    lt reponame gt -svn cvsdude com aspwebsite Checkout directory  C  aspwebsite Checkout depth  Fully recursive Omit externals  Unchecked Revision  HEAD revision  Got TortoiseSVN error    OPTIONS of  https    lt reponame gt -svn cvsdude com aspwebsite   could not connect to server  https    lt reponame gt -svn cvsdude com     Rather than getting the error  TortoiseSVN should have asked for my username and password and then downloaded about 90MB   Why can t I checkout from my Subversion repository        Kent Fredric wrote       Either their security certificate has   expired  or their hosting is   broken down       Contact CVSDude and ask them whats up       It could also be a timeout  because   for me their site is exhaustively   slow     It errors after only a couple seconds  I don t think it s a timeout      Matt wrote       Try visiting   https    redacted -svn cvsdude com aspwebsite   and see what happens  If you can visit   it in your browser  you ought to be   able to get the files in your SVN   client and we can work from there  If   it fails  then there s your answer    I can access the site in a web browser

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Late reaction  but I ve struggled with this for a while so maybe I can save somebody some time by showing my solution   My problem showed a bit different  but the cause might be the same   In my situation  TortoiseSVN kept on trying to connect via a proxy server  I could access SVN via chrome  firefox and IE fine   Turns out that there is a configuration file that has a different configuration than the GUI in TortoiseSVN shows    Mine was located here  C  Documents and Settings  username  Application Data Subversion   but you can also open the file via the TortoiseSVN gui     In my file  http-proxy-exceptions was empty  After I specified it  everything worked fine    global  http-proxy-exceptions   10 1 1 11 http-proxy-host   197 132 0 223 http-proxy-port   8080 http-proxy-username   defaultusername http-proxy-password   defaultpassword http-compression   no

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It sounds like you are almost definitely behind a proxy server   Where this does not work for me behind my proxy   svn checkout http   v8 googlecode com svn trunk  v8-read-only   this does   svn --config-option servers global http-proxy-host MY PROXY HOST --config-option servers global http-proxy-port MY PROXY PORT checkout http   v8 googlecode com svn trunk  v8-read-only   UPDATE I forgot to quote my source  -   http   svnbook red-bean com en 1 1 ch07 html svn-ch-7-sect-1 3 1

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For me this was the solution   The problem was that the SVN server was behind a reverse-proxy  pound   And the reverse proxy had to be told to allow OPTIONS

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Try pasting in the SVN URL into your browser s Address bar  You ll likely see that you cannot connect because of some issue with the URL  I had this issue just today and the problem was that I had mistyped the port number  but as others have noted it could also be a case-sensitivity issue  proxy settings  or other connection-level issues

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Check you proxy settings in TortoiseSVN- Settings- Network   Maybe they are configured differently than in your web browser

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I realize this is an old question  but the same issue happened to me  but for a completely different reason    It could be that cvs-dude changed certificates  so it no longer matches the certificate you have cached    You can go to TortoiseSVN- Settings- Saved Data and click the  Clear  button next to  Authentication data  and then try again

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Either their security certificate has expired  or their hosting is broken down   Contact CVSDude and ask them whats up   It could also be a timeout  because for me their site is exhaustively slow

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I got the same error today and discovered that the firewall was blocking the svn client

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I just had a similar issue  but it didn t error immediately  so it may have not been the same issue     I m behind a firewall and changed my proxy settings  TortoiseSVN- Settings- Network  to access an open source repo yesterday   I received the error this morning trying to checkout a repo in the local domain behind the firewall   I just had to remove the proxy settting in TortoiseSVN- Settings- Network to get it work locally again

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I had a similar issue  turns out it was case-sensitivity issue  So  make sure you use the proper case

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Neither of the answers resolved the issue for me  Even after I had installed a new version of Tortoise SVN   Ccleaner   Seems that there is a folder in AppData Roaming Subversion that contains all configuration of Tortoise SVN  You need to delete it all and restart Tortoise SVN   Hope this helps someone as the ultimate solution

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This was driving me nuts and I solved it today   I m posting in this old thread because I arrived here several times while searching for a solution   I hope it helps someone  For me  I checked svn-settings --  network --  Edit Subversion server file and found that there were some uncommented lines at the end   http-proxy-host    ssl-trust-default-ca   no http-proxy-username    http-proxy-password      that differed from my co-workers   Once I comment these  it started working again

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Thank you to all the commenters on this page  When I first installed the latest TortoiseSVN I got this error    I was using the latest version  so decided to downgrade to 1 5 9  as the rest of my colleagues were using  and this got it to work  Then  once built  my machine was moved onto another subnet and the problem started again   I went to TortoiseSVN- Settings- Saved Data and cleared the Authentication data  After this it worked fine

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I got this error too when I had my server as an exception for the proxy in the SVN config file like this  http-proxy-exceptions     repo domain com  The solution for me was to use the svn server IP instead of the name  For some reason the name was not getting properly resolved from Eclipse Juno - Subclipse and from TortoiseSVN    So  what worked for me  http-proxy-exceptions   XXX XX X X  the server IP

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I did not have network settings changed in any way and thus most of the stuff presented here did not apply to me  After messing around a lot the comment about the virus scanner got me on the right track  There are some virus scanners like McAfee  that protect certain areas of the system directories and make them read-only  When you connect to a server for the first time  Tortoise SVN tries to write the certificate on one of these files which fails due to the protection  Switch off the protection briefly  start the check out and after the certificate dialog  you can switch it back on  This at least worked for me

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I ve have the same problem like this  but using my own server  Maybe APACHE is allowing only limited connection to the same server  I m increasing the max connection and KeepAlive setting  So far so good

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It is the problem with your proxy setting in TortoiseSVN  Connect using a network which doesn t use proxy or configure your proxy settings properly

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This can occur because of you are trying to checking out the repository by accessing it via a proxy server without enabling the proxy server in the place you need to change the settings in TortoiseSvn  So if you are using a proxy server make sure that you put a tick in  Enable Proxy Server  in Settings- Network and give your Server address and Port number in the relevant places  Now try to check out again

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make sure when you add your proxy entries to the server file  you add them under the  global  group   That seemed to make the difference for me under ubuntu

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remote VisualSVN server 2 5 8 is accessible from at least 3 computers   However on my local computer the url of the repository was not accessible  and svn ls https   server-ip 443 svn project trunk return error  OPTIONS of  https        could not connect to server         My local computer used to have access to the server  The only thing that was changed was switching to http connection instead of https for Redmine reasons certificate issue     I tried different things listed above  What actually solved my problem was installing a new the VisualSVN server 2 5 9 using the same repository  And also Redmine recognized the new repository through https

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