Lang Stefan wrote:

Hello List,

I am trying to download (parts of) the current version of boost as described in http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostSubversion. I do have a subversion client installed (version 1.4.2) as well as TortoiseSVN for windows. However, so far I have been unable to download any file(s) from the repository at http://svn.boost.org.

The IT staff advised me to use a proxy server and a specific port to establish that sort of internet connection, and I found and set the appropriate options for TortoiseSVN. Afterwards, when I tried to use TortoiseSVN for downloading from the boost repository, some administrative data was transferred, but still no actual files. The error messages I got were:

REPORT request failed on '/svn/boost/!svn/vcc/default' REPORT of '/svn/boost/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Request (http://svn.boost.org)

This might indicate that your IT staff has configures the proxy so that disallow the REPORT request type. I think the svn docs have the list of all request types that should be allowed by a proxy for subversion to operate properly. - Volodya