Finally, Subversion’s PROPFIND is enabled on the proxy server at one place I work, but for some rea­son Sub­clipse was still being a lit­tle bit special.

Turns out it doesn’t use Eclipse’s HTTP Proxy set­tings, but needs set­ting elsewhere.

On Win­dows XP, this will be in your Appli­ca­tion Data path under Sub­ver­sion. Mine is as follows:

C:\Documents and Settings\joshs\Application Data\Subversion

I haven’t got a Vista machine to test on, but it will still be the Appli­ca­tion Data\Subversion folder within the user’s path. (I will con­firm this next time I’m on a Vista box.)

Linux users, look in ~/.subversion/

Open the file “servers” (no exten­sion) and scroll to the bot­tom sec­tion, [Global].

Un-comment and edit the http-proxy-host and http-proxy-port set­tings (and user/password if required, it wasn’t for me) as appro­pri­ate and every­thing will start work­ing. You don’t even need to reload Eclipse.

Pro­duc­tiv­ity just soared!