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wireproto: add config knob for http header length limit

Well-behaved Mercurial clients will respect the httpheader capability by not
sending http headers longer than the given limit in bytes. The limit is
currently hard-coded at 1024 bytes, a safe value for any web server.

Since parsing headers is a notable factor in web server performance, tuning
header size can nontrivially improve performance for request-heavy operations
(eg. obsolete marker negotiation). Exposing the maximum header length limit
as a configuration setting is a simple way to enable such tuning.

# A dummy extension that installs an hgweb command that throws an Exception.

from mercurial.hgweb import webcommands

def raiseerror(web, req, tmpl):
    '''Dummy web command that raises an uncaught Exception.'''

    # Simulate an error after partial response.
    if 'partialresponse' in req.form:
        req.respond(200, 'text/plain')
        req.write('partial content\n')

    raise AttributeError('I am an uncaught error!')

def extsetup(ui):
    setattr(webcommands, 'raiseerror', raiseerror)
    webcommands.__all__.append('raiseerror')