What is the best method of doing a network trace of the conversation between a Subversion client and server?
Use Ethereal to eavesdrop on the conversation: • Pull down the Capture menu, and choose Start. • Type port 80 for Filter, and turn off promiscuous mode. • Run your Subversion client. • Hit Stop (probably in a little box). Now you have a capture. It looks like a huge list of lines. • Click on the Protocol column to sort. • Then, click on the first relevant TCP line to select it. • Right click, and choose Follow TCP Stream. You’ll be presented with the request/response pairs of the Subversion client’s HTTP conversion. The above instructions are specific to the graphical version of Ethereal, and may not apply to the commandline version (whose binary is usually named tethereal). Alternatively, if you have an up-to-date client (more recent than the 0.16 tarball) you may set the neon-debug-mask parameter in your servers configuration file to cause neon’s debugging output to appear when you run the svn client. The numeric value of neon-debug-mask is a combination of the NE_DBG_… values in t
