TortoiseSVN Error: “OPTIONS of 'https://…' could not connect to server (…)”

Question

I\'m trying to setup a new computer to synchronize with my SVN repository that\'s hosted with cvsdude.com.

I get this error:

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Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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)