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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

# rewriteutil.py - utility functions for rewriting changesets
#
# Copyright 2017 Octobus <[e-mail]>
#
# 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

from .i18n import _

from . import (
    error,
    node,
    obsolete,
    revset,
)

def precheck(repo, revs, action='rewrite'):
    """check if revs can be rewritten
    action is used to control the error message.

    Make sure this function is called after taking the lock.
    """
    if node.nullrev in revs:
        msg = _("cannot %s null changeset") % (action)
        hint = _("no changeset checked out")
        raise error.Abort(msg, hint=hint)

    publicrevs = repo.revs('%ld and public()', revs)
    if len(repo[None].parents()) > 1:
        raise error.Abort(_("cannot %s while merging") % action)

    if publicrevs:
        msg = _("cannot %s public changesets") % (action)
        hint = _("see 'hg help phases' for details")
        raise error.Abort(msg, hint=hint)

    newunstable = disallowednewunstable(repo, revs)
    if newunstable:
        raise error.Abort(_("cannot %s changeset with children") % action)

def disallowednewunstable(repo, revs):
    """Checks whether editing the revs will create new unstable changesets and
    are we allowed to create them.

    To allow new unstable changesets, set the config:
        `experimental.evolution.allowunstable=True`
    """
    allowunstable = obsolete.isenabled(repo, obsolete.allowunstableopt)
    if allowunstable:
        return revset.baseset()
    return repo.revs("(%ld::) - %ld", revs, revs)