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hgweb: support constructing URLs from an alternate base URL

The web.baseurl config option allows server operators to define a
custom URL for hosted content.

The way it works today is that hgwebdir parses this config
option into URL components then updates the appropriate
WSGI environment variables so the request "lies" about its
details. For example, SERVER_NAME is updated to reflect the
alternate base URL's hostname.

The WSGI environment should not be modified because WSGI
applications may want to know the original request details (for
debugging, etc).

This commit teaches our request parser about the existence of
an alternate base URL. If defined, the advertised URL and other
self-reflected paths will take the alternate base URL into account.

The hgweb WSGI application didn't use web.baseurl. But hgwebdir
did. We update hgwebdir to alter the environment parsing
accordingly. The old code around environment manipulation
has been removed.

With this change, parserequestfromenv() has grown to a bit
unwieldy. Now that practically everyone is using it, it is
obvious that there is some unused features that can be trimmed.
So look for this in follow-up commits.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2822

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>