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hgweb: remove support for POST form data (BC)

Previously, we called out to cgi.parse(), which for POST requests
parsed multipart/form-data and application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Type requests for form data, combined it with query string
parameters, returned a union of the values.

As far as I know, nothing in Mercurial actually uses this mechanism
to submit data to the HTTP server. The wire protocol has its own
mechanism for passing parameters. And the web interface only does
GET requests. Removing support for parsing POST data doesn't break
any tests.

Another reason to not like this feature is that cgi.parse() may
modify the QUERY_STRING environment variable as a side-effect.
In addition, it merges both POST data and the query string into
one data structure. This prevents consumers from knowing whether
a variable came from the query string or POST data. That can matter
for some operations.

I suspect we use cgi.parse() because back when this code was
initially implemented, it was the function that was readily
available. In other words, I don't think there was conscious
choice to support POST data: we just got it because cgi.parse()
supported it.

Since nothing uses the feature and it is untested, let's remove
support for parsing POST form data. We can add it back in easily
enough if we need it in the future.

.. bc::

   Hgweb no longer reads form data in POST requests from
   multipart/form-data and application/x-www-form-urlencoded
   requests. Arguments should be specified as URL path components
   or in the query string in the URL instead.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2774

# rcutil.py - utilities about config paths, special config sections etc.
#
#  Copyright Mercurial Contributors
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import os

from . import (
    encoding,
    pycompat,
    util,
)

if pycompat.iswindows:
    from . import scmwindows as scmplatform
else:
    from . import scmposix as scmplatform

fallbackpager = scmplatform.fallbackpager
systemrcpath = scmplatform.systemrcpath
userrcpath = scmplatform.userrcpath

def _expandrcpath(path):
    '''path could be a file or a directory. return a list of file paths'''
    p = util.expandpath(path)
    if os.path.isdir(p):
        join = os.path.join
        return [join(p, f) for f, k in util.listdir(p) if f.endswith('.rc')]
    return [p]

def envrcitems(env=None):
    '''Return [(section, name, value, source)] config items.

    The config items are extracted from environment variables specified by env,
    used to override systemrc, but not userrc.

    If env is not provided, encoding.environ will be used.
    '''
    if env is None:
        env = encoding.environ
    checklist = [
        ('EDITOR', 'ui', 'editor'),
        ('VISUAL', 'ui', 'editor'),
        ('PAGER', 'pager', 'pager'),
    ]
    result = []
    for envname, section, configname in checklist:
        if envname not in env:
            continue
        result.append((section, configname, env[envname], '$%s' % envname))
    return result

def defaultrcpath():
    '''return rc paths in default.d'''
    path = []
    defaultpath = os.path.join(util.datapath, 'default.d')
    if os.path.isdir(defaultpath):
        path = _expandrcpath(defaultpath)
    return path

def rccomponents():
    '''return an ordered [(type, obj)] about where to load configs.

    respect $HGRCPATH. if $HGRCPATH is empty, only .hg/hgrc of current repo is
    used. if $HGRCPATH is not set, the platform default will be used.

    if a directory is provided, *.rc files under it will be used.

    type could be either 'path' or 'items', if type is 'path', obj is a string,
    and is the config file path. if type is 'items', obj is a list of (section,
    name, value, source) that should fill the config directly.
    '''
    envrc = ('items', envrcitems())

    if 'HGRCPATH' in encoding.environ:
        # assume HGRCPATH is all about user configs so environments can be
        # overridden.
        _rccomponents = [envrc]
        for p in encoding.environ['HGRCPATH'].split(pycompat.ospathsep):
            if not p:
                continue
            _rccomponents.extend(('path', p) for p in _expandrcpath(p))
    else:
        normpaths = lambda paths: [('path', os.path.normpath(p)) for p in paths]
        _rccomponents = normpaths(defaultrcpath() + systemrcpath())
        _rccomponents.append(envrc)
        _rccomponents.extend(normpaths(userrcpath()))
    return _rccomponents

def defaultpagerenv():
    '''return a dict of default environment variables and their values,
    intended to be set before starting a pager.
    '''
    return {'LESS': 'FRX', 'LV': '-c'}