On 23.03.2012 13:41, markus.lieb...@t-systems.com wrote:
We have the following problem in using Subversion (currently version 1.6.15):

  * I open the Windows Internet Explorer 8.0
  * I enter there the URL to our Subversion repository: 
https://our.company.com/svn/REPO/trunk/docs
    <https://our.company.com/svn/REPO/trunk/docs>
  * I have to login with my credentials (user ID and password).
  * I am able to navigate up and down the hierarchy of directories. The 
credentials are stored in the session, and are
    not asked again.
  * Every time I try to open an Office document (PPT, XLS, DOC), I see the 
following happening:

  * The windows download / open dialog is opened
  * When I press open, there comes a popup that asks for my credentials again. 
It is not the one of the browser, but of
    the application that the document belongs to. The icon of that popup is 
also the one of the application.
  * I see in the background a window that shows the whole URL in a dialog. The 
dialog is named “Open” (German: Öffnen),
    and has only the button “Cancel”.
  * I then enter my credentials or approve the cached ones and press then “OK”.
  * This popup comes then 3 times, with the same contents.
  * After the last one, the Office document is opened.

  * I have asked our admins and they told me that they think that the IE8 tries 
to establish a WebDAV connection, which
    fails 3 times. Then the office document is downloaded as normally.
  * This does not happen with any other browser: Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Sarari 
are all ok, even Internet Explorer 6.0 is.

This happens only with Windows 7 (not sure about 64 bit only), and Internet 
Explorer 8. It has nothing to do with the
client version of Subversion.
I have 2 questions:

 1. What is the reason for this behavior?
 2. Is there anything we can do (server or client side) to fix that behavior?

Thank you a lot
Bye
Markus Liebelt
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I had a problem with the IE behaving very strange when trying to download MS Office documents (docx, xlsx) from a subversion server; it downloaded them as zip files instead. The fix was to add the subversion server to the trusted sites in the IE settings: Tools->Internet Options, Tab Security
Its a wild guess but maybe this helps with your problem too.

Walter Klust

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