Why svnup failing?

[Ian Smith]

In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 692, Issue 5, Message: 10
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 00:00:23 -0500 Lars Eighner <luvbeastie at larseighner.com> wrote:

 > Why is svnup failing and getting a response from a web server?

Failing how?  Using which propocol?  What web server?

Please show command line used, response received, output of 'svmup -V' 
and relevant contents of /usr/local/etc/svnup.conf

cheers, Ian