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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
| author | Augie Fackler <augie@google.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:51:32 -0500 |
| parents | 15ddf83fbf84 |
| children | 5abc47d4ca6b |
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#require execbit $ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH > [extensions] > autodiff = $TESTDIR/autodiff.py > [diff] > nodates = 1 > EOF $ hg init repo $ cd repo make a combination of new, changed and deleted file $ echo regular > regular $ echo rmregular > rmregular $ $PYTHON -c "open('bintoregular', 'wb').write(b'\0')" $ touch rmempty $ echo exec > exec $ chmod +x exec $ echo rmexec > rmexec $ chmod +x rmexec $ echo setexec > setexec $ echo unsetexec > unsetexec $ chmod +x unsetexec $ echo binary > binary $ $PYTHON -c "open('rmbinary', 'wb').write(b'\0')" $ hg ci -Am addfiles adding binary adding bintoregular adding exec adding regular adding rmbinary adding rmempty adding rmexec adding rmregular adding setexec adding unsetexec $ echo regular >> regular $ echo newregular >> newregular $ rm rmempty $ touch newempty $ rm rmregular $ echo exec >> exec $ echo newexec > newexec $ echo bintoregular > bintoregular $ chmod +x newexec $ rm rmexec $ chmod +x setexec $ chmod -x unsetexec $ $PYTHON -c "open('binary', 'wb').write(b'\0\0')" $ $PYTHON -c "open('newbinary', 'wb').write(b'\0')" $ rm rmbinary $ hg addremove -s 0 adding newbinary adding newempty adding newexec adding newregular removing rmbinary removing rmempty removing rmexec removing rmregular git=no: regular diff for all files $ hg autodiff --git=no diff -r a66d19b9302d binary Binary file binary has changed diff -r a66d19b9302d bintoregular Binary file bintoregular has changed diff -r a66d19b9302d exec --- a/exec +++ b/exec @@ -1,1 +1,2 @@ exec +exec diff -r a66d19b9302d newbinary Binary file newbinary has changed diff -r a66d19b9302d newexec --- /dev/null +++ b/newexec @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ +newexec diff -r a66d19b9302d newregular --- /dev/null +++ b/newregular @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ +newregular diff -r a66d19b9302d regular --- a/regular +++ b/regular @@ -1,1 +1,2 @@ regular +regular diff -r a66d19b9302d rmbinary Binary file rmbinary has changed diff -r a66d19b9302d rmexec --- a/rmexec +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1 +0,0 @@ -rmexec diff -r a66d19b9302d rmregular --- a/rmregular +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1 +0,0 @@ -rmregular git=yes: git diff for single regular file $ hg autodiff --git=yes regular diff --git a/regular b/regular --- a/regular +++ b/regular @@ -1,1 +1,2 @@ regular +regular git=auto: regular diff for regular files and non-binary removals $ hg autodiff --git=auto regular newregular rmregular rmexec diff -r a66d19b9302d newregular --- /dev/null +++ b/newregular @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ +newregular diff -r a66d19b9302d regular --- a/regular +++ b/regular @@ -1,1 +1,2 @@ regular +regular diff -r a66d19b9302d rmexec --- a/rmexec +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1 +0,0 @@ -rmexec diff -r a66d19b9302d rmregular --- a/rmregular +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1 +0,0 @@ -rmregular $ for f in exec newexec setexec unsetexec binary newbinary newempty rmempty rmbinary bintoregular; do > echo > echo '% git=auto: git diff for' $f > hg autodiff --git=auto $f > done % git=auto: git diff for exec diff -r a66d19b9302d exec --- a/exec +++ b/exec @@ -1,1 +1,2 @@ exec +exec % git=auto: git diff for newexec diff --git a/newexec b/newexec new file mode 100755 --- /dev/null +++ b/newexec @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ +newexec % git=auto: git diff for setexec diff --git a/setexec b/setexec old mode 100644 new mode 100755 % git=auto: git diff for unsetexec diff --git a/unsetexec b/unsetexec old mode 100755 new mode 100644 % git=auto: git diff for binary diff --git a/binary b/binary index a9128c283485202893f5af379dd9beccb6e79486..09f370e38f498a462e1ca0faa724559b6630c04f GIT binary patch literal 2 Jc${Nk0000200961 % git=auto: git diff for newbinary diff --git a/newbinary b/newbinary new file mode 100644 index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..f76dd238ade08917e6712764a16a22005a50573d GIT binary patch literal 1 Ic${MZ000310RR91 % git=auto: git diff for newempty diff --git a/newempty b/newempty new file mode 100644 % git=auto: git diff for rmempty diff --git a/rmempty b/rmempty deleted file mode 100644 % git=auto: git diff for rmbinary diff --git a/rmbinary b/rmbinary deleted file mode 100644 index f76dd238ade08917e6712764a16a22005a50573d..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 GIT binary patch literal 0 Hc$@<O00001 % git=auto: git diff for bintoregular diff --git a/bintoregular b/bintoregular index f76dd238ade08917e6712764a16a22005a50573d..9c42f2b6427d8bf034b7bc23986152dc01bfd3ab GIT binary patch literal 13 Uc$`bh%qz(+N=+}#Ni5<5043uE82|tP git=warn: regular diff with data loss warnings $ hg autodiff --git=warn diff -r a66d19b9302d binary Binary file binary has changed diff -r a66d19b9302d bintoregular Binary file bintoregular has changed diff -r a66d19b9302d exec --- a/exec +++ b/exec @@ -1,1 +1,2 @@ exec +exec diff -r a66d19b9302d newbinary Binary file newbinary has changed diff -r a66d19b9302d newexec --- /dev/null +++ b/newexec @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ +newexec diff -r a66d19b9302d newregular --- /dev/null +++ b/newregular @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ +newregular diff -r a66d19b9302d regular --- a/regular +++ b/regular @@ -1,1 +1,2 @@ regular +regular diff -r a66d19b9302d rmbinary Binary file rmbinary has changed diff -r a66d19b9302d rmexec --- a/rmexec +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1 +0,0 @@ -rmexec diff -r a66d19b9302d rmregular --- a/rmregular +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1 +0,0 @@ -rmregular data lost for: binary data lost for: bintoregular data lost for: newbinary data lost for: newempty data lost for: newexec data lost for: rmbinary data lost for: rmempty data lost for: setexec data lost for: unsetexec git=abort: fail on execute bit change $ hg autodiff --git=abort regular setexec abort: losing data for setexec [255] git=abort: succeed on regular file $ hg autodiff --git=abort regular diff -r a66d19b9302d regular --- a/regular +++ b/regular @@ -1,1 +1,2 @@ regular +regular $ cd ..