tests/dumbhttp.py

sslutil: issue warning when [hostfingerprint] is used

Mercurial 3.9 added the [hostsecurity] section, which is better
than [hostfingerprints] in every way.

One of the ways that [hostsecurity] is better is that it supports
SHA-256 and SHA-512 fingerprints, not just SHA-1 fingerprints.

The world is moving away from SHA-1 because it is borderline
secure. Mercurial should be part of that movement.

This patch adds a warning when a valid SHA-1 fingerprint from
the [hostfingerprints] section is being used. The warning informs
users to switch to [hostsecurity]. It even prints the config
option they should set. It uses the SHA-256 fingerprint because
recommending a SHA-1 fingerprint in 2017 would be ill-advised.

The warning will print itself on every connection to a server until
it is fixed. There is no way to suppress the warning. I admit this
is annoying. But given the security implications of sticking with
SHA-1, I think this is justified. If this patch is accepted,
I'll likely send a follow-up to start warning on SHA-1
certificates in [hostsecurity] as well. Then sometime down
the road, we can drop support for SHA-1 fingerprints.

Credit for this idea comes from timeless in issue 5466.

#!/usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import absolute_import

"""
Small and dumb HTTP server for use in tests.
"""

import optparse
import os
import signal
import socket
import sys

from mercurial import (
    server,
    util,
)

httpserver = util.httpserver
OptionParser = optparse.OptionParser

if os.environ.get('HGIPV6', '0') == '1':
    class simplehttpserver(httpserver.httpserver):
        address_family = socket.AF_INET6
else:
    simplehttpserver = httpserver.httpserver

class simplehttpservice(object):
    def __init__(self, host, port):
        self.address = (host, port)
    def init(self):
        self.httpd = simplehttpserver(
            self.address, httpserver.simplehttprequesthandler)
    def run(self):
        self.httpd.serve_forever()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = OptionParser()
    parser.add_option('-p', '--port', dest='port', type='int', default=8000,
        help='TCP port to listen on', metavar='PORT')
    parser.add_option('-H', '--host', dest='host', default='localhost',
        help='hostname or IP to listen on', metavar='HOST')
    parser.add_option('--pid', dest='pid',
        help='file name where the PID of the server is stored')
    parser.add_option('-f', '--foreground', dest='foreground',
        action='store_true',
        help='do not start the HTTP server in the background')
    parser.add_option('--daemon-postexec', action='append')

    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()

    signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, lambda x, y: sys.exit(0))

    if options.foreground and options.pid:
        parser.error("options --pid and --foreground are mutually exclusive")

    opts = {'pid_file': options.pid,
            'daemon': not options.foreground,
            'daemon_postexec': options.daemon_postexec}
    service = simplehttpservice(options.host, options.port)
    server.runservice(opts, initfn=service.init, runfn=service.run,
                      runargs=[sys.executable, __file__] + sys.argv[1:])