internals: document CBOR utilization
I spoke with some people at Mozilla about CBOR and they advised me
that we should be careful about the subset of CBOR we use in order
to mitigate security, performance, and compatibility concerns.
This commit establishes a document that attempts to formalize our
use of CBOR.
Its main limitations are on what types are allowed. It explicitly
enumerates which types are supported. Notable missing features
include:
* Indefinite-length arrays and maps
* Text strings (bytes all the way)
* Floats
* Date/time types
* Big integers
* Use of indefinite-length byte strings for map keys, values in
containers.
If we have a need for any of these, we can have a discussion about
them when the time comes.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4412
#require no-msys # MSYS will translate web paths as if they were file paths
This is a test of the wire protocol over CGI-based hgweb.
initialize repository
$ hg init test
$ cd test
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Ama
adding a
$ cd ..
$ cat >hgweb.cgi <<HGWEB
> #
> # An example CGI script to use hgweb, edit as necessary
> import cgitb
> cgitb.enable()
> from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
> from mercurial.hgweb import hgweb
> from mercurial.hgweb import wsgicgi
> application = hgweb(b"test", b"Empty test repository")
> wsgicgi.launch(application)
> HGWEB
$ chmod 755 hgweb.cgi
try hgweb request
$ . "$TESTDIR/cgienv"
$ QUERY_STRING="cmd=changegroup&roots=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"; export QUERY_STRING
$ $PYTHON hgweb.cgi >page1 2>&1
$ $PYTHON "$TESTDIR/md5sum.py" page1
1f424bb22ec05c3c6bc866b6e67efe43 page1
make sure headers are sent even when there is no body
$ QUERY_STRING="cmd=listkeys&namespace=nosuchnamespace" $PYTHON hgweb.cgi
Status: 200 Script output follows\r (esc)
Content-Type: application/mercurial-0.1\r (esc)
Content-Length: 0\r (esc)
\r (esc)