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httprepo: long arguments support (issue2126)...
httprepo: long arguments support (issue2126) 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.

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This tests if CGI files from before d0db3462d568 still work.
$ hg init test
$ cat >hgweb.cgi <<HGWEB
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> #
> # An example CGI script to use hgweb, edit as necessary
>
> import cgitb, os, sys
> cgitb.enable()
>
> # sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib") # if not a system-wide install
> from mercurial import hgweb
>
> h = hgweb.hgweb("test", "Empty test repository")
> h.run()
> HGWEB
$ chmod 755 hgweb.cgi
$ cat >hgweb.config <<HGWEBDIRCONF
> [paths]
> test = test
> HGWEBDIRCONF
$ cat >hgwebdir.cgi <<HGWEBDIR
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> #
> # An example CGI script to export multiple hgweb repos, edit as necessary
>
> import cgitb, sys
> cgitb.enable()
>
> # sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib") # if not a system-wide install
> from mercurial import hgweb
>
> # The config file looks like this. You can have paths to individual
> # repos, collections of repos in a directory tree, or both.
> #
> # [paths]
> # virtual/path = /real/path
> # virtual/path = /real/path
> #
> # [collections]
> # /prefix/to/strip/off = /root/of/tree/full/of/repos
> #
> # collections example: say directory tree /foo contains repos /foo/bar,
> # /foo/quux/baz. Give this config section:
> # [collections]
> # /foo = /foo
> # Then repos will list as bar and quux/baz.
>
> # Alternatively you can pass a list of ('virtual/path', '/real/path') tuples
> # or use a dictionary with entries like 'virtual/path': '/real/path'
>
> h = hgweb.hgwebdir("hgweb.config")
> h.run()
> HGWEBDIR
$ chmod 755 hgwebdir.cgi
$ . "$TESTDIR/cgienv"
$ python hgweb.cgi > page1
$ python hgwebdir.cgi > page2
$ PATH_INFO="/test/"
$ PATH_TRANSLATED="/var/something/test.cgi"
$ REQUEST_URI="/test/test/"
$ SCRIPT_URI="http://hg.omnifarious.org/test/test/"
$ SCRIPT_URL="/test/test/"
$ python hgwebdir.cgi > page3
$ grep -i error page1 page2 page3
[1]