Python 2.6 introduced the "except type as instance" syntax, replacing
the "except type, instance" syntax that came before. Python 3 dropped
support for the latter syntax. Since we no longer support Python 2.4 or
2.5, we have no need to continue supporting the "except type, instance".
This patch mass rewrites the exception syntax to be Python 2.6+ and
Python 3 compatible.
This patch was produced by running `2to3 -f except -w -n .`.
This patch fixes a bug where hgweb would send an incomplete HTTP
response.
If an uncaught exception is raised when hgweb is processing a request,
hgweb attempts to send a generic error response and log that exception.
The server defaults to chunked transfer coding. If an uncaught exception
occurred, it was sending the error response string / chunk properly.
However, RFC 7230 Section 4.1 mandates a 0 size last chunk be sent to
indicate end of the entity body. hgweb was failing to send this last
chunk. As a result, properly written HTTP clients would assume more data
was coming and they would likely time out waiting for another chunk to
arrive.
Mercurial's own test harness was paving over the improper HTTP behavior
by not attempting to read the response body if the status code was 500.
This incorrect workaround was added in faced8f5c2af and has been removed
with this patch.
A correct patch for this has existed in Python's BTS for 3 years
(http://bugs.python.org/issue9291), so waiting for it to be fixed
upstream is probably not a viable strategy. Instead, we add this
horrible hack to workaround the issue in existing copies of Python
2.4-2.7.
The headers attribute is not initialized in certain error situations
(e.g. http 400 bad request). Check for self.headers before we attempt
to access it.
Fixes HTTP protocol violation introduced in e4a5f5db7028. 'hg serve' would show
a stacktrace when loading pages that not had been modified.
There was test coverage for this, but the wrong response headers wasn't shown
and thus not detected.
'hg serve' used to close connections when sending a response with unknown
length ... such as a bundle or archive.
Now chunked encoding will be used for responses with unknown length, and the
connection do thus not have to be closed to indicate the end of the response.
Chunked encoding is only used if the length is unknown, if the connection
wouldn't be closed for other reasons, AND if it is a HTTP 1.1 request.
This will not benefit other users of hgweb ... but it can serve as an example
that it can be done.
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.
Other exceptions than StandardExceptions were left to the default error handler
which was muted when running in daemon mode.
Now all Exceptions are handled and logged to the log file.
PROTOCOL_SSLv3 on the server side doesn't work everywhere. Sometimes the client
reports "EOF occurred in violation of protocol" (for example on Mac and Solaris).
The more compatible PROTOCOL_SSLv23 is now used instead. It works but is less
"secure" for some OpenSSL versions as it can fall back to weak encryption.
pyOpenSSL apparently doesn't work for Python 2.7 and isn't very actively
maintained.
The built-in ssl module seems like a long-term winner, so we now use that with
Python 2.6 and higher.
The https mode failed in super because BaseRequestHandler is an old-style
class.
This introduces the first test of https client/server functionality - and
"hghave ssl". The test is currently only run on Python 2.6.
This adds util.getport(port) which tries to parse port as an int, and
failing that, looks it up using socket.getservbyname(). Thus, the
following will work:
[smtp]
port = submission
[web]
port = http
This does not apply to ports in URLs used in clone, pull, etc.
Using the write() callable supplied by the start_response() call is
frowned upon by the WSGI spec, returning an iterable over the content chunks
is the recommended way. Be aware, though: returning many small chunks will
slow down responses, because the server has to flush each chunk separately.
The error message at startup when the address/port could not be bound
was confusing:
hg serve
abort: cannot start server: Address already in use
Be more explicit:
$ hg serve -a localhost
abort: cannot start server at 'localhost:8000': Address already in use
Also be more explicit on success, showing hostname and ip address/port:
$ hg -v serve -a localhost -p 80
listening at http://localhost/ (127.0.0.1:80)
We are careful to handle a missconfigured machine whose hostname does not
resolve, falling back to the address given at the command line.
Remove a dead-code error message.
