Re: [Ethereal-users] FW: SVN Errors

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Tim.Keane wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just recently downloaded Ethereal as I was working on the 
> development of a TCP/IP analyser. Then I found out that Ethereal is 
> open source so I set about following the instructions in the Developer 
> Guide. I’ve completed installing all the tools using the Win32 / 
> Cygwin environment and when I run the “svn checkout” command to 
> download the source files I get the following errors:
>
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on `ethereal/trunk`
>
> svn : PROPFIND of `ethereal/trunk`: could not connect to server 
> (http://anonsvn.ethereal.com <http://anonsvn.ethereal.com/>)
>
> I also tried using TortoiseSVN from the windows environment but got 
> the same errors. I’ve turned off the firewall on my computer but I am 
> on a fairly large network so I’d worry that this might affect it. I’m 
> using Windows XP and I’ve installed WinPcap.
As you mention your on a large (corporate?) network.

svn is usually not possible if you have internet access through a (e.g. 
HTTP) proxy.

You may try the latest one from 
http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/buildbot-builds/source/

Regards, ULFL