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POTortoiseSVN Error: "OPTIONS of 'https://...' could not connect to server (...)"
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copied!<p>I'm trying to setup a new computer to synchronize with my SVN repository that's hosted with cvsdude.com.</p> <p>I get this error:</p> <p>![SVN Error][1] - <em>removed image shack image that had been replaced by an advert</em></p> <p>Here's what I did (these have worked in the past):</p> <ol> <li><p>Downloaded and installed TortoiseSVN</p></li> <li><p>Created a new folder C:\aspwebsite</p></li> <li><p>Right-clicked, chose SVN Checkout...</p></li> <li><p>Entered the following information, clicked OK:</p> <ul> <li>URL of repository: <a href="https://<reponame>-svn.cvsdude.com/aspwebsite" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://<reponame>-svn.cvsdude.com/aspwebsite</a></li> <li>Checkout directory: C:\aspwebsite</li> <li>Checkout depth: Fully recursive</li> <li>Omit externals: Unchecked</li> <li>Revision: HEAD revision</li> </ul></li> <li><p>Got TortoiseSVN error:</p> <ul> <li>OPTIONS of '<a href="https://<reponame>-svn.cvsdude.com/aspwebsite" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://<reponame>-svn.cvsdude.com/aspwebsite</a>': could not connect to server (<a href="https://<reponame>-svn.cvsdude.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://<reponame>-svn.cvsdude.com</a>)</li> </ul></li> </ol> <p>Rather than getting the error, TortoiseSVN should have asked for my username and password and then downloaded about 90MB.</p> <p>Why can't I checkout from my Subversion repository?</p> <hr> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/15614/kent-fredric">Kent Fredric</a> wrote:</p> <p>Either their security certificate has expired, or their hosting is broken/down.</p> <p>Contact CVSDude and ask them whats up.</p> <p>It could also be a timeout, because for me their site is <em>exhaustively</em> slow..</p> </blockquote> <p>It errors after only a couple seconds. I don't think it's a timeout.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/2590/matt">Matt</a> wrote:</p> <p>Try visiting <a href="https://[redacted]-svn.cvsdude.com/aspwebsite" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://[redacted]-svn.cvsdude.com/aspwebsite</a> and see what happens. If you can visit it in your browser, you ought to be able to get the files in your SVN client and we can work from there. If it fails, then there's your answer.</p> </blockquote> <p>I can access the site in a web browser.</p>

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