svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 URL_Reputation_coaching) in response to GET request

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When I do svn checkout for GCC I get the below error. SVN Version is 1.6.11 (r934486)

"svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 URL_Reputation_coaching) in response to GET request for '/svn/gcc/!svn/ver/219188/trunk/libitm/configure.ac"

Command:

svn checkout http://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk /home/softwares/GCC

Google shows results for (403 FORBIDDEN) errors but none for (403 URL_Reputation_coaching)

Please help out.

Note: I can do an ls and list the branches

svn ls http://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc

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I didn't have any problem with: svn checkout svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk using svn 1.8.8 on Ubuntu 14.04. – agold
I see. I am on RHEL and svn 1.6. Do you know anything about the error "403 URL_Reputation_coaching" – Roshith
No, but HTTP error 403 means forbidden, maybe this is given because you use "http". I was actually NOT able to download the svn with http://, but only with svn://, did you try this? – agold
Ok. svn protocol didn't work for me (I am behind a corporate proxy) so tried http. I have set the http proxy correctly in /home/.subversion/servers. – Roshith
Did you also try the https:// protocol? That one seemed to work for me, but it was quite slow. – agold

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From the gcc web:

Assuming you have version 1.0.0 and higher of Subversion installed, you can check out the GCC sources using the following command:

svn checkout svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk SomeLocalDir

But behind a firewall:

If you are behind a firewall that does not allow the svn protocol through, you can replace svn:// with http://.

Trying however, I found out that instead of http:// you should use https://:

svn checkout https://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk/ SomeLocalDir

The error 403 could indeed refer to the HTTP error 403 which means forbidden, and therefore might explain why you were not able to access the SVN through http.