> -----Original Message-----
> From: Branko Čibej [mailto:br...@wandisco.com]
> Sent: vrijdag 16 augustus 2013 23:29
> To: users@subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: svn 1.8.1 fails on underscore in the tunnel protocol
>
> On 16.08.2013 23:10, Eric Hall wrote:
> > Hello-
> > We have a custom tunnel protocol withrepository URLs of the form:
> >
> > svn+foo_bar://
> >
> > After upgrading from svn 1.7.x to 1.8.1, these URLs are considered
> > invalid, giving an error of:
> >
> > svn: E170000: Illegal repository URL
> >
> > This occurs on an 'svn up' or an 'svn checkout'.
> >
> > Changing the tunnel protocol name to 'foobar' (i.e. drop the
> underscore)
> > appears to work properly, both 'svn up' and 'svn checkout' work fine.
> >
> > Is this a bug, or should tunnel protocols not have underscores in
> them?
>
> See RFC 3986, section 3.1:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
>
> Underscores are not allowed in the URL scheme. It would appear that
> allowing them was a bug in previous versions of Subversion.
The related change was not in Subversion itself, but in apr-util 1.5.2.
[[
*) apr_uri_parse(): Do not accept invalid characters in the scheme.
Per RFC 3986 3.3, enforce that the first segment of a relative path does
not contain a colon. PR 52479.
]]
Bert
