convert/gnuarch: parse continuation-of revisions in gnuarch source
In GNU Arch, continuation-of was often used for:
- tagging revisions
- continue working on a project in a new archive, because arch
was scaling poorly in revision numbers (cat-logs were slow
to be parsed and scanned through)
- very similar to the previous point, fork his own branch of
a project.
Parsing this header information will allow to 'follow' new history
because it often hints at older/forked/personal revision trees.
This patch however just implements the parsing of the
continuation-of header. A followup patch will implement the proper
use of this new information.
#!/usr/bin/env python
__doc__ = """This does HTTP get requests given a host:port and path and returns
a subset of the headers plus the body of the result."""
import httplib, sys, re
try:
import msvcrt, os
msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
except ImportError:
pass
headers = [h.lower() for h in sys.argv[3:]]
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(sys.argv[1])
conn.request("GET", sys.argv[2])
response = conn.getresponse()
print response.status, response.reason
for h in headers:
if response.getheader(h, None) is not None:
print "%s: %s" % (h, response.getheader(h))
print
data = response.read()
data = re.sub('\d+ years', 'many years', data)
sys.stdout.write(data)
if 200 <= response.status <= 299:
sys.exit(0)
sys.exit(1)