setdiscovery: limit the size of all sample (issue4411)
Further digging on this issue show that the limit on the sample size used in
discovery never works for heads. Here is a quote from the code itself:
desiredlen = size - len(always)
if desiredlen <= 0:
# This could be bad if there are very many heads, all unknown to the
# server. We're counting on long request support here.
The long request support never landed and evolution make the "very many heads,
all unknown to the server" case quite common.
We implement a simple and stupid hard limit of sample size for all query. This
should prevent HTTP 414 error with the current state of the code.
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# An example hgweb CGI script, edit as necessary
# See also http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PublishingRepositories
# Path to repo or hgweb config to serve (see 'hg help hgweb')
config = "/path/to/repo/or/config"
# Uncomment and adjust if Mercurial is not installed system-wide
# (consult "installed modules" path from 'hg debuginstall'):
#import sys; sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib")
# Uncomment to send python tracebacks to the browser if an error occurs:
#import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
from mercurial.hgweb import hgweb, wsgicgi
application = hgweb(config)
wsgicgi.launch(application)