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httppeer: remove support for connecting to <0.9.1 servers (BC) Previously, HTTP wire protocol clients would attempt a "capabilities" wire protocol command. If that failed, they would fall back to issuing a "between" command. The "capabilities" command was added in Mercurial 0.9.1 (released July 2006). The "between" command has been present for as long as the wire protocol has existed. So if the "between" command failed, it was safe to assume that the remote could not speak any version of the Mercurial wire protocol. The "between" fallback was added in 395a84f78736 in 2011. Before that changeset, Mercurial would *always* issue the "between" command and would issue "capabilities" if capabilities were requested. At that time, many connections would issue "capabilities" eventually, so it was decided to issue "capabilities" by default and fall back to "between" if that failed. This saved a round trip when connecting to modern servers while still preserving compatibility with legacy servers. Fast forward ~7 years. Mercurial servers supporting "capabilities" have been around for over a decade. If modern clients are connecting to <0.9.1 servers, they are getting a bad experience. They may even be getting bad data (an old server is vulnerable to numerous security issues and could have been p0wned, leading to a Mercurial repository serving backdoors or other badness). In addition, the fallback can harm experience for modern servers. If a client experiences an intermittent HTTP request failure (due to bad network, etc) and falls back to a "between" that works, it would assume an empty capability set and would attempt to communicate with the repository using a very ancient wire protocol. Auditing HTTP logs for hg.mozilla.org, I did find a handful of requests for the null range of the "between" command. However, requests can be days apart. And when I do see requests, they come in batches. Those batches seem to correlate to spikes of HTTP 500 or other server/network events. So I think these requests are fallbacks from failed "capabilities" requests and not from old clients. If you need even more evidence to discontinue support, apparently we have no test coverage for communicating with servers not supporting "capabilities." I know this because all tests pass with the "between" fallback removed. Finally, server-side support for <0.9.1 pushing (the "addchangegroup" wire protocol command along with locking-related commands) was dropped from the HTTP client in fda0867cfe03 in 2017 and the SSH client in 9f6e0e7ef828 in 2015. I think this all adds up to enough justification for removing client support for communicating with servers not supporting "capabilities." So this commit removes that fallback. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2001

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# peer.py - repository base classes for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
# Copyright 2006 Vadim Gelfer <vadim.gelfer@gmail.com>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
from __future__ import absolute_import
from . import (
error,
pycompat,
util,
)
# abstract batching support
class future(object):
'''placeholder for a value to be set later'''
def set(self, value):
if util.safehasattr(self, 'value'):
raise error.RepoError("future is already set")
self.value = value
class batcher(object):
'''base class for batches of commands submittable in a single request
All methods invoked on instances of this class are simply queued and
return a a future for the result. Once you call submit(), all the queued
calls are performed and the results set in their respective futures.
'''
def __init__(self):
self.calls = []
def __getattr__(self, name):
def call(*args, **opts):
resref = future()
# Please don't invent non-ascii method names, or you will
# give core hg a very sad time.
self.calls.append((name.encode('ascii'), args, opts, resref,))
return resref
return call
def submit(self):
raise NotImplementedError()
class iterbatcher(batcher):
def submit(self):
raise NotImplementedError()
def results(self):
raise NotImplementedError()
class localiterbatcher(iterbatcher):
def __init__(self, local):
super(iterbatcher, self).__init__()
self.local = local
def submit(self):
# submit for a local iter batcher is a noop
pass
def results(self):
for name, args, opts, resref in self.calls:
resref.set(getattr(self.local, name)(*args, **opts))
yield resref.value
def batchable(f):
'''annotation for batchable methods
Such methods must implement a coroutine as follows:
@batchable
def sample(self, one, two=None):
# Build list of encoded arguments suitable for your wire protocol:
encargs = [('one', encode(one),), ('two', encode(two),)]
# Create future for injection of encoded result:
encresref = future()
# Return encoded arguments and future:
yield encargs, encresref
# Assuming the future to be filled with the result from the batched
# request now. Decode it:
yield decode(encresref.value)
The decorator returns a function which wraps this coroutine as a plain
method, but adds the original method as an attribute called "batchable",
which is used by remotebatch to split the call into separate encoding and
decoding phases.
'''
def plain(*args, **opts):
batchable = f(*args, **opts)
encargsorres, encresref = next(batchable)
if not encresref:
return encargsorres # a local result in this case
self = args[0]
cmd = pycompat.bytesurl(f.__name__) # ensure cmd is ascii bytestr
encresref.set(self._submitone(cmd, encargsorres))
return next(batchable)
setattr(plain, 'batchable', f)
return plain