Tales From The Geek Side

I recently setup a new subversion server at work.  While testing it out users had problems checking out large projects.  Tortoise gave an error about a secure connection truncation (or something like that).  On the server end there were some uninformative error messages in the logs.  The problem was intermittent but was pretty easily reproducible.

I finally tracked the problem down to mod_deflate.  After disabling mod_deflate the problem completely disappeared.