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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

  $ cat >> fakepager.py <<EOF
  > import sys
  > printed = False
  > for line in sys.stdin:
  >     sys.stdout.write('paged! %r\n' % line)
  >     printed = True
  > if not printed:
  >     sys.stdout.write('paged empty output!\n')
  > EOF

Enable ui.formatted because pager won't fire without it, and set up
pager and tell it to use our fake pager that lets us see when the
pager was running.
  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [ui]
  > formatted = yes
  > color = no
  > [pager]
  > pager = $PYTHON $TESTTMP/fakepager.py
  > EOF

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ echo a >> a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg ci -m 'add a'
  $ for x in `$PYTHON $TESTDIR/seq.py 1 10`; do
  >   echo a $x >> a
  >   hg ci -m "modify a $x"
  > done

By default diff and log are paged, but id is not:

  $ hg diff -c 2 --pager=yes
  paged! 'diff -r f4be7687d414 -r bce265549556 a\n'
  paged! '--- a/a\tThu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! '+++ b/a\tThu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! '@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@\n'
  paged! ' a\n'
  paged! ' a 1\n'
  paged! '+a 2\n'

  $ hg log --limit 2
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! 'changeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'

  $ hg id
  46106edeeb38 tip

We can control the pager from the config

  $ hg log --limit 1 --config 'ui.paginate=False'
  changeset:   10:46106edeeb38
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     modify a 10
  
  $ hg log --limit 1 --config 'ui.paginate=0'
  changeset:   10:46106edeeb38
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     modify a 10
  
  $ hg log --limit 1 --config 'ui.paginate=1'
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'

explicit --pager=on should take precedence over other configurations
(issue5580)

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [ui]
  > paginate = false
  > EOF
  $ hg log --limit 1 --pager=on
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [ui]
  > # true is default value of ui.paginate
  > paginate = true
  > EOF
  $ hg log --limit 1 --pager=off
  changeset:   10:46106edeeb38
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     modify a 10
  

We can enable the pager on id:

BROKEN: should be paged
  $ hg --config pager.attend-id=yes id
  46106edeeb38 tip

Setting attend-$COMMAND to a false value works, even with pager in
core:
  $ hg --config pager.attend-diff=no diff -c 2
  diff -r f4be7687d414 -r bce265549556 a
  --- a/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  +++ b/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
   a
   a 1
  +a 2

Command aliases should have same behavior as main command

  $ hg history --limit 2
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! 'changeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'

Abbreviated command alias should also be paged

  $ hg hist -l 1
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'

Attend for an abbreviated command does not work

  $ hg --config pager.attend-ident=true ident
  46106edeeb38 tip

  $ hg --config extensions.pager= --config pager.attend-ident=true ident
  46106edeeb38 tip

Pager should not start if stdout is not a tty.

  $ hg log -l1 -q --config ui.formatted=False
  10:46106edeeb38

Pager should be disabled if pager.pager is empty (otherwise the output would
be silently lost.)

  $ hg log -l1 -q --config pager.pager=
  10:46106edeeb38

Pager with color enabled allows colors to come through by default,
even though stdout is no longer a tty.
  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [ui]
  > color = always
  > [color]
  > mode = ansi
  > EOF
  $ hg log --limit 3
  paged! '\x1b[0;33mchangeset:   10:46106edeeb38\x1b[0m\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! '\x1b[0;33mchangeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\x1b[0m\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! '\x1b[0;33mchangeset:   8:cff05a6312fe\x1b[0m\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 8\n'
  paged! '\n'

#if no-chg
An invalid pager command name is reported sensibly if we don't have to
use shell=True in the subprocess call:
  $ hg log --limit 3 --config pager.pager=this-command-better-never-exist
  missing pager command 'this-command-better-never-exist', skipping pager
  \x1b[0;33mchangeset:   10:46106edeeb38\x1b[0m (esc)
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     modify a 10
  
  \x1b[0;33mchangeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\x1b[0m (esc)
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     modify a 9
  
  \x1b[0;33mchangeset:   8:cff05a6312fe\x1b[0m (esc)
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     modify a 8
  
#endif

A complicated pager command gets worse behavior. Bonus points if you can
improve this.
  $ hg log --limit 3 \
  >   --config pager.pager='this-command-better-never-exist --seriously' \
  >  2>/dev/null || true

Pager works with shell aliases.

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [alias]
  > echoa = !echo a
  > EOF

  $ hg echoa
  a
BROKEN: should be paged
  $ hg --config pager.attend-echoa=yes echoa
  a

Pager works with hg aliases including environment variables.

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<'EOF'
  > [alias]
  > printa = log -T "$A\n" -r 0
  > EOF

  $ A=1 hg --config pager.attend-printa=yes printa
  paged! '1\n'
  $ A=2 hg --config pager.attend-printa=yes printa
  paged! '2\n'

Something that's explicitly attended is still not paginated if the
pager is globally set to off using a flag:
  $ A=2 hg --config pager.attend-printa=yes printa --pager=no
  2

Pager should not override the exit code of other commands

  $ cat >> $TESTTMP/fortytwo.py <<'EOF'
  > from mercurial import commands, registrar
  > cmdtable = {}
  > command = registrar.command(cmdtable)
  > @command(b'fortytwo', [], 'fortytwo', norepo=True)
  > def fortytwo(ui, *opts):
  >     ui.write('42\n')
  >     return 42
  > EOF

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<'EOF'
  > [extensions]
  > fortytwo = $TESTTMP/fortytwo.py
  > EOF

  $ hg fortytwo --pager=on
  paged! '42\n'
  [42]

A command that asks for paging using ui.pager() directly works:
  $ hg blame a
  paged! ' 0: a\n'
  paged! ' 1: a 1\n'
  paged! ' 2: a 2\n'
  paged! ' 3: a 3\n'
  paged! ' 4: a 4\n'
  paged! ' 5: a 5\n'
  paged! ' 6: a 6\n'
  paged! ' 7: a 7\n'
  paged! ' 8: a 8\n'
  paged! ' 9: a 9\n'
  paged! '10: a 10\n'
but not with HGPLAIN
  $ HGPLAIN=1 hg blame a
   0: a
   1: a 1
   2: a 2
   3: a 3
   4: a 4
   5: a 5
   6: a 6
   7: a 7
   8: a 8
   9: a 9
  10: a 10
explicit flags work too:
  $ hg blame --pager=no a
   0: a
   1: a 1
   2: a 2
   3: a 3
   4: a 4
   5: a 5
   6: a 6
   7: a 7
   8: a 8
   9: a 9
  10: a 10

A command with --output option:

  $ hg cat -r0 a
  paged! 'a\n'
  $ hg cat -r0 a --output=-
  paged! 'a\n'
  $ hg cat -r0 a --output=out
  $ rm out

Put annotate in the ignore list for pager:
  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [pager]
  > ignore = annotate
  > EOF
  $ hg blame a
   0: a
   1: a 1
   2: a 2
   3: a 3
   4: a 4
   5: a 5
   6: a 6
   7: a 7
   8: a 8
   9: a 9
  10: a 10

During pushbuffer, pager should not start:
  $ cat > $TESTTMP/pushbufferpager.py <<EOF
  > def uisetup(ui):
  >     ui.pushbuffer()
  >     ui.pager('mycmd')
  >     ui.write('content\n')
  >     ui.write(ui.popbuffer())
  > EOF

  $ echo append >> a
  $ hg --config extensions.pushbuffer=$TESTTMP/pushbufferpager.py status --color=off
  content
  paged! 'M a\n'

Environment variables like LESS and LV are set automatically:
  $ cat > $TESTTMP/printlesslv.py <<EOF
  > from __future__ import absolute_import
  > import os
  > import sys
  > sys.stdin.read()
  > for name in ['LESS', 'LV']:
  >     sys.stdout.write(('%s=%s\n') % (name, os.environ.get(name, '-')))
  > sys.stdout.flush()
  > EOF

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [alias]
  > noop = log -r 0 -T ''
  > [ui]
  > formatted=1
  > [pager]
  > pager = $PYTHON $TESTTMP/printlesslv.py
  > EOF
  $ unset LESS
  $ unset LV
  $ hg noop --pager=on
  LESS=FRX
  LV=-c
  $ LESS=EFGH hg noop --pager=on
  LESS=EFGH
  LV=-c