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wireprotoserver: access headers through parsed request

Now that we can access headers via the parsed request object, let's
do that.

Since the new object uses bytes, hyphens, and is case-insensitive, a
bit of code around normalizing values has been removed. I think
the new code is much more intuitive because it more closely matches
what is going out over the wire.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2743

cHg
===

A fast client for Mercurial command server running on Unix.

Install:

 $ make
 $ make install

Usage:

 $ chg help                 # show help of Mercurial
 $ alias hg=chg             # replace hg command
 $ chg --kill-chg-daemon    # terminate background server

Environment variables:

Although cHg tries to update environment variables, some of them cannot be
changed after spawning the server. The following variables are specially
handled:

 * configuration files are reloaded automatically by default.
 * CHGHG or HG specifies the path to the hg executable spawned as the
   background command server.

The following variables are available for testing:

 * CHGDEBUG enables debug messages.
 * CHGSOCKNAME specifies the socket path of the background cmdserver.
 * CHGTIMEOUT specifies how many seconds chg will wait before giving up
   connecting to a cmdserver. If it is 0, chg will wait forever. Default: 60