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hgweb: document continuereader Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2767
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
date Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:47:30 -0800
parents e3f809e0fe8e
children 290fc4c3d1e0
files mercurial/hgweb/common.py
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/hgweb/common.py	Thu Mar 08 18:00:04 2018 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/hgweb/common.py	Sat Mar 10 10:47:30 2018 -0800
@@ -101,6 +101,13 @@
         self.headers = headers
 
 class continuereader(object):
+    """File object wrapper to handle HTTP 100-continue.
+
+    This is used by servers so they automatically handle Expect: 100-continue
+    request headers. On first read of the request body, the 100 Continue
+    response is sent. This should trigger the client into actually sending
+    the request body.
+    """
     def __init__(self, f, write):
         self.f = f
         self._write = write