httprepo: long arguments support (issue2126)
Send the command arguments in the HTTP headers. The command is still part
of the URL. If the server does not have the 'httpheader' capability, the
client will send the command arguments in the URL as it did previously.
Web servers typically allow more data to be placed within the headers than
in the URL, so this approach will:
- Avoid HTTP errors due to using a URL that is too large.
- Allow Mercurial to implement a more efficient wire protocol.
An alternate approach is to send the arguments as part of the request body.
This approach has been rejected because it requires the use of POST
requests, so it would break any existing configuration that relies on the
request type for authentication or caching.
Extensibility:
- The header size is provided by the server, which makes it possible to
introduce an hgrc setting for it.
- The client ignores the capability value after the first comma, which
allows more information to be included in the future.
$ hg init test
$ cd test
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Ama
adding a
$ cd ..
$ hg clone test test2
updating to branch default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd test2
$ echo a >> a
$ hg ci -mb
$ req() {
> hg serve -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg.pid -E errors.log
> cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS
> hg --cwd ../test2 push http://localhost:$HGPORT/
> "$TESTDIR/killdaemons.py"
> echo % serve errors
> cat errors.log
> }
$ cd ../test
expect ssl error
$ req
pushing to http://localhost:$HGPORT/
searching for changes
remote: ssl required
% serve errors
expect authorization error
$ echo '[web]' > .hg/hgrc
$ echo 'push_ssl = false' >> .hg/hgrc
$ req
pushing to http://localhost:$HGPORT/
searching for changes
abort: authorization failed
% serve errors
expect authorization error: must have authorized user
$ echo 'allow_push = unperson' >> .hg/hgrc
$ req
pushing to http://localhost:$HGPORT/
searching for changes
abort: authorization failed
% serve errors
expect success
$ echo 'allow_push = *' >> .hg/hgrc
$ echo '[hooks]' >> .hg/hgrc
$ echo 'changegroup = python "$TESTDIR"/printenv.py changegroup 0' >> .hg/hgrc
$ req
pushing to http://localhost:$HGPORT/
searching for changes
remote: adding changesets
remote: adding manifests
remote: adding file changes
remote: added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
remote: changegroup hook: HG_NODE=ba677d0156c1196c1a699fa53f390dcfc3ce3872 HG_SOURCE=serve HG_URL=remote:http:*: (glob)
% serve errors
$ hg rollback
repository tip rolled back to revision 0 (undo serve)
working directory now based on revision 0
expect success, server lacks the httpheader capability
$ CAP=httpheader
$ . "$TESTDIR/notcapable"
$ req
pushing to http://localhost:$HGPORT/
searching for changes
remote: adding changesets
remote: adding manifests
remote: adding file changes
remote: added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
remote: changegroup hook: HG_NODE=ba677d0156c1196c1a699fa53f390dcfc3ce3872 HG_SOURCE=serve HG_URL=remote:http:*: (glob)
% serve errors
$ hg rollback
repository tip rolled back to revision 0 (undo serve)
working directory now based on revision 0
expect success, server lacks the unbundlehash capability
$ CAP=unbundlehash
$ . "$TESTDIR/notcapable"
$ req
pushing to http://localhost:$HGPORT/
searching for changes
remote: adding changesets
remote: adding manifests
remote: adding file changes
remote: added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
remote: changegroup hook: HG_NODE=ba677d0156c1196c1a699fa53f390dcfc3ce3872 HG_SOURCE=serve HG_URL=remote:http:*: (glob)
% serve errors
$ hg rollback
repository tip rolled back to revision 0 (undo serve)
working directory now based on revision 0
expect authorization error: all users denied
$ echo '[web]' > .hg/hgrc
$ echo 'push_ssl = false' >> .hg/hgrc
$ echo 'deny_push = *' >> .hg/hgrc
$ req
pushing to http://localhost:$HGPORT/
searching for changes
abort: authorization failed
% serve errors
expect authorization error: some users denied, users must be authenticated
$ echo 'deny_push = unperson' >> .hg/hgrc
$ req
pushing to http://localhost:$HGPORT/
searching for changes
abort: authorization failed
% serve errors