SVN checkout fails saying URL is malformed

Question

I am trying to checkout files using subversion on RedHat Linux but the checkout fails saying URL (http/https) is malformed or the scheme or host or path is missing.

I am not sure now what more configuration/setup is needed?

I am able to ping the http(s) site properly.

Command: svn checkout --username kdeshpa https://teamforge.wal-mart.com/svn/repos/demo

Anyhelp would be highly appreciated.

I am new to subversion. Not sure where to look for logs.

If i give command (svn log) it cribs saying (svn: '.' is not a working copy).

Answer 1

It looks that SSL handshake issue. Had to build openssl with "no-asm" configuration and it was able to checkout on secured layer.

Answer 2

(Oddly, I am not allowed to comment on this issue, so instead I will answer.)

Have you tried to install the neon package? You can find the source here: http://www.webdav.org/neon/

When I compiled an SVN client from scratch recently, I was unable to connect to an SVN repo using HTTP. After installing neon, I recompiled and my SVN client was able to connect to an SVN repo using HTTP.

Answer 3

You need to have neon installed, and compiled with SSL support. On Solaris I pass the following flags to Neon's configure script: --enable-threadsafe-ssl=posix --with-ssl=openssl