Accessing remote SVN Repositories from Eclipse
When using subclipse to get a remote SVN repository, your IDE may complain as below:
RA layer request failed
svn: OPTIONS of ‘https://src.springframework.org/svn/spring-samples/petclinic/trunk’: could not connect to server (https://src.springframework.org)
svn: OPTIONS of ‘https://src.springframework.org/svn/spring-samples/petclinic/trunk’: could not connect to server (https://src.springframework.org)
Here’s what I did to fix it. Change the client from JavaHL JNI to SVNKit(PureJava) option in the SVN node of your eclipse IDE’s Window | preferences. Here’s the reason.

That works! You saved me hours of frustration! thanks!!!
thanks it worked
Thanks a lot….it is working for me as well
I am doing import on SVN from location https://src.springframework.org/svn/spring-samples/
However it is asking for userid and passord. Aren’t these samples supposed to be free!!!