Preliminary prep. for possible future tests: mini-script which

spawns hgweb wrapped with dummy password authentication
(self-note: ssl could be added with require uwsgi)

tests/backend/auth_hg_serve.cfg

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+[paths]
+/ = ../../../*

tests/backend/auth_hg_serve.py

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+# Extended version of Mercurial WSGI wrapper, adding
+# some minimal HTTP auth.
+
+from base64 import b64decode
+from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
+from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
+from mercurial.hgweb import hgweb
+
+PORT = 8080
+CONFIG_PATH = 'auth_hg_serve.cfg'
+
+
+class TrivialAuth(object):
+    """Authorizes if user==password + user starts from abc"""
+
+    def __init__(self, application):
+        self.application = application
+
+    def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
+        if self.is_authenticated(environ.get('HTTP_AUTHORIZATION')):
+            return self.application(environ, start_response)
+        return self.password_prompt(environ, start_response)
+
+    def is_authenticated(self, header):
+        if not header:
+            return False
+        _, encoded = header.split(None, 1)
+        decoded = b64decode(encoded).decode('utf-8')
+        username, password = decoded.split(':', 1)
+        return username == password and username.startswith("abc")
+
+    def password_prompt(self, environ, start_response):
+        start_response(
+            '401 Authentication Required',
+            [
+                ('Content-Type', 'text/html'),
+                ('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic realm="HGLogin"'),
+            ])
+        return [b'Please login']
+
+
+def dummy_app(environ, start_response):
+    start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/html')])
+    return [b'Hello, world!']
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    # httpd = make_server('', PORT, TrivialAuth(dummy_app))
+
+    httpd = make_server('', PORT, TrivialAuth(hgweb(CONFIG_PATH)))
+    # application = hgweb(config_path)
+
+    # httpd = make_server('', 8080, TrivialAuth(application))
+    print('Serving on port 8080...')
+    try:
+        httpd.serve_forever()
+    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+        pass