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http: drop custom http client logic

Eight and a half years ago, as my starter bug on code.google.com, I
investigated a mysterious "broken pipe" error from seemingly random
clients[0]. That investigation revealed a tragic story: the Python
standard library's httplib was (and remains) barely functional. During
large POSTs, if a server responds early with an error (even a
permission denied error!) the client only notices that the server
closed the connection and everything breaks. Such server behavior is
implicitly legal under RFC 2616 (the latest HTTP RFC as of when I was
last working on this), and my understanding is that later RFCs have
made it explicitly legal to respond early with any status code outside
the 2xx range.

I embarked, probably foolishly, on a journey to write a new http
library with better overall behavior. The http library appears to work
well in most cases, but it can get confused in the presence of
proxies, and it depends on select(2) which limits its utility if a lot
of file descriptors are open. I haven't touched the http library in
almost two years, and in the interim the Python community has
discovered a better way[1] of writing network code. In theory some day
urllib3 will have its own home-grown http library built on h11[2], or
we could do that. Either way, it's time to declare our current
confusingly-named "http2" client logic and move on. I do hope to
revisit this some day: it's still garbage that we can't even respond
with a 401 or 403 without reading the entire POST body from the
client, but the goalposts on writing a new http client library have
moved substantially. We're almost certainly better off just switching
to requests and eventually picking up their http fixes than trying to
live with something that realistically only we'll ever use. Another
approach would be to write an adapter so that Mercurial can use pycurl
if it's installed. Neither of those approaches seem like they should
be investigated prior to a release of Mercurial that works on Python
3: that's where the mindshare is going to be for any improvements to
the state of the http client art.

0: http://web.archive.org/web/20130501031801/http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=2716
1: http://sans-io.readthedocs.io/
2: https://github.com/njsmith/h11

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2444

Set vars:

  $ CONTRIBDIR="$TESTDIR/../contrib"

Prepare repo-a:

  $ hg init repo-a
  $ cd repo-a

  $ echo this is file a > a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg commit -m first

  $ echo adding to file a >> a
  $ hg commit -m second

  $ echo adding more to file a >> a
  $ hg commit -m third

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 3 changesets, 3 total revisions

Dumping revlog of file a to stdout:

  $ $PYTHON "$CONTRIBDIR/dumprevlog" .hg/store/data/a.i
  file: .hg/store/data/a.i
  node: 183d2312b35066fb6b3b449b84efc370d50993d0
  linkrev: 0
  parents: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  length: 15
  -start-
  this is file a
  
  -end-
  node: b1047953b6e6b633c0d8197eaa5116fbdfd3095b
  linkrev: 1
  parents: 183d2312b35066fb6b3b449b84efc370d50993d0 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  length: 32
  -start-
  this is file a
  adding to file a
  
  -end-
  node: 8c4fd1f7129b8cdec6c7f58bf48fb5237a4030c1
  linkrev: 2
  parents: b1047953b6e6b633c0d8197eaa5116fbdfd3095b 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  length: 54
  -start-
  this is file a
  adding to file a
  adding more to file a
  
  -end-

Dump all revlogs to file repo.dump:

  $ find .hg/store -name "*.i" | sort | xargs $PYTHON "$CONTRIBDIR/dumprevlog" > ../repo.dump
  $ cd ..

Undumping into repo-b:

  $ hg init repo-b
  $ cd repo-b
  $ $PYTHON "$CONTRIBDIR/undumprevlog" < ../repo.dump
  .hg/store/00changelog.i
  .hg/store/00manifest.i
  .hg/store/data/a.i
  $ cd ..

Rebuild fncache with clone --pull:

  $ hg clone --pull -U repo-b repo-c
  requesting all changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 3 changesets with 3 changes to 1 files
  new changesets de1da620e7d8:46946d278c50

Verify:

  $ hg -R repo-c verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 3 changesets, 3 total revisions

Compare repos:

  $ hg -R repo-c incoming repo-a
  comparing with repo-a
  searching for changes
  no changes found
  [1]

  $ hg -R repo-a incoming repo-c
  comparing with repo-c
  searching for changes
  no changes found
  [1]

Test simplemerge command:

  $ cp "$CONTRIBDIR/simplemerge" .
  $ echo base > base
  $ echo local > local
  $ cat base >> local
  $ cp local orig
  $ cat base > other
  $ echo other >> other

changing local directly

  $ $PYTHON simplemerge local base other && echo "merge succeeded"
  merge succeeded
  $ cat local
  local
  base
  other
  $ cp orig local

printing to stdout

  $ $PYTHON simplemerge -p local base other
  local
  base
  other

local:

  $ cat local
  local
  base

conflicts

  $ cp base conflict-local
  $ cp other conflict-other
  $ echo not other >> conflict-local
  $ echo end >> conflict-local
  $ echo end >> conflict-other

  $ $PYTHON simplemerge -p conflict-local base conflict-other
  base
  <<<<<<< conflict-local
  not other
  =======
  other
  >>>>>>> conflict-other
  end
  [1]

1 label

  $ $PYTHON simplemerge -p -L foo conflict-local base conflict-other
  base
  <<<<<<< foo
  not other
  =======
  other
  >>>>>>> conflict-other
  end
  [1]

2 labels

  $ $PYTHON simplemerge -p -L foo -L bar conflict-local base conflict-other
  base
  <<<<<<< foo
  not other
  =======
  other
  >>>>>>> bar
  end
  [1]

3 labels

  $ $PYTHON simplemerge -p -L foo -L bar -L base conflict-local base conflict-other
  base
  <<<<<<< foo
  not other
  end
  ||||||| base
  =======
  other
  end
  >>>>>>> bar
  [1]

too many labels

  $ $PYTHON simplemerge -p -L foo -L bar -L baz -L buz conflict-local base conflict-other
  abort: can only specify three labels.
  [255]

binary file

  $ $PYTHON -c "f = open('binary-local', 'w'); f.write('\x00'); f.close()"
  $ cat orig >> binary-local
  $ $PYTHON simplemerge -p binary-local base other
  warning: binary-local looks like a binary file.
  [1]

binary file --text

  $ $PYTHON simplemerge -a -p binary-local base other 2>&1
  warning: binary-local looks like a binary file.
  \x00local (esc)
  base
  other

help

  $ $PYTHON simplemerge --help
  simplemerge [OPTS] LOCAL BASE OTHER
  
      Simple three-way file merge utility with a minimal feature set.
  
      Apply to LOCAL the changes necessary to go from BASE to OTHER.
  
      By default, LOCAL is overwritten with the results of this operation.
  
  options:
   -L --label       labels to use on conflict markers
   -a --text        treat all files as text
   -p --print       print results instead of overwriting LOCAL
      --no-minimal  no effect (DEPRECATED)
   -h --help        display help and exit
   -q --quiet       suppress output

wrong number of arguments

  $ $PYTHON simplemerge
  simplemerge: wrong number of arguments
  simplemerge [OPTS] LOCAL BASE OTHER
  
      Simple three-way file merge utility with a minimal feature set.
  
      Apply to LOCAL the changes necessary to go from BASE to OTHER.
  
      By default, LOCAL is overwritten with the results of this operation.
  
  options:
   -L --label       labels to use on conflict markers
   -a --text        treat all files as text
   -p --print       print results instead of overwriting LOCAL
      --no-minimal  no effect (DEPRECATED)
   -h --help        display help and exit
   -q --quiet       suppress output
  [1]

bad option

  $ $PYTHON simplemerge --foo -p local base other
  simplemerge: option --foo not recognized
  simplemerge [OPTS] LOCAL BASE OTHER
  
      Simple three-way file merge utility with a minimal feature set.
  
      Apply to LOCAL the changes necessary to go from BASE to OTHER.
  
      By default, LOCAL is overwritten with the results of this operation.
  
  options:
   -L --label       labels to use on conflict markers
   -a --text        treat all files as text
   -p --print       print results instead of overwriting LOCAL
      --no-minimal  no effect (DEPRECATED)
   -h --help        display help and exit
   -q --quiet       suppress output
  [1]