This is a backout of 93589179c542, and a partial backout of 9b1628b91e74.
Windows won't execute 'dummyssh' directly, presumably because CreateProcess()
doesn't know how to execute a bash script:
$ hg clone -e "dummyssh" ssh://user@dummy/cloned sshclone
remote: 'dummyssh' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
remote: operable program or batch file.
abort: no suitable response from remote hg!
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With the restoration of python as the executable, $TESTDIR needs to be restored
for these invocations, because python won't search $PATH for 'dummyssh':
$ hg clone -e "python dummyssh" ssh://user@dummy/cloned sshclone
remote: python: can't open file 'dummyssh': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
abort: no suitable response from remote hg!
[255]
$TESTDIR is added to the path, so this is superfluous. Also,
inconsistent use of quotes means we might have broken on tests with
paths containing spaces.
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.
New argument is silently ignored by both HTTP and SSH servers.
This means we can, for instance, add new flags to getbundle()
to request advanced features (like lightweight-copy-aware bundles),
and older servers will silently ignore this request and send back
a plain bundle.
