TortoiseSVN checkout failed error svn: E120106: ra_serf: The server sent a truncated HTTP response body

Question

TortoiseSVN shows the error svn: E120106: ra_serf: The server sent a truncated HTTP response body during checkout operation. How to solve the problem?

Answer 1

Make sure to use the latest and most up to date Subversion client version available. If the problem still occurs, you should

• contact your system administrator to check the network for connection problems,
• ensure that a proxy you may have between the client machine and Subversion server is working properly and is not killing the connection prematurely,
• ensure that an antivirus you may have installed on the client or server computer is not interfering with the Subversion HTTP(S) traffic. You must add exception / exclusion rule that will disable on-access or traffic scan to and from your Subversion server.

NOTE: Downgrading Subversion client is a wrong and ugly workaround. The problem has to be solved on the network.