#require serve

  $ hg init server

  $ hg serve -R server -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg1.pid -E ../error.log

  $ cat hg1.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS

Check basic fetching

  $ hg debugdownload "http://localhost:$HGPORT/?cmd=lookup&key=tip"

  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

  $ hg debugdownload  -o null.txt "http://localhost:$HGPORT/?cmd=lookup&key=null"

  $ cat null.txt

  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Check the request is made from the usual Mercurial logic

(rev details, give different content if the request has a Mercurial user agent)

  $ get-with-headers.py --headeronly "localhost:$HGPORT" "rev/tip" content-type

  200 Script output follows

  content-type: text/html; charset=ascii

  $ hg debugdownload "http://localhost:$HGPORT/rev/tip"

  # HG changeset patch

  # User 

  # Date 0 0

  # Node ID 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Check other kind of compatible url

  $ hg debugdownload ./null.txt

  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000