pushkey: splits obsolete marker exchange into multiple keys
Obsolete markers are now exchanged in smaller pieces that fit in a http header.
This changes is done to avoid 400 bad request error when exchanging obsolete
puskey over http.
The last key pushed is always hold by the "dump0" key to ensure an easy place to
hook for people who need it.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""This does HTTP GET requests given a host:port and path and returns
a subset of the headers plus the body of the result."""
import httplib, sys
try:
import msvcrt, os
msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
except ImportError:
pass
twice = False
if '--twice' in sys.argv:
sys.argv.remove('--twice')
twice = True
reasons = {'Not modified': 'Not Modified'} # python 2.4
tag = None
def request(host, path, show):
assert not path.startswith('/'), path
global tag
headers = {}
if tag:
headers['If-None-Match'] = tag
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
conn.request("GET", '/' + path, None, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
print response.status, reasons.get(response.reason, response.reason)
for h in [h.lower() for h in show]:
if response.getheader(h, None) is not None:
print "%s: %s" % (h, response.getheader(h))
print
data = response.read()
sys.stdout.write(data)
if twice and response.getheader('ETag', None):
tag = response.getheader('ETag')
return response.status
status = request(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3:])
if twice:
status = request(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3:])
if 200 <= status <= 305:
sys.exit(0)
sys.exit(1)