view mercurial/httprangereader.py @ 7012:78341ea65d16

restructure helptable

When looking up a help topic, the key is now only matched against the
short names for each topic, and not the header. So

  hg help 'Environment Variables'

must be replaced with

  hg help env

# httprangereader.py - just what it says
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
# of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.

import byterange, urllib2

class httprangereader(object):
    def __init__(self, url):
        self.url = url
        self.pos = 0
    def seek(self, pos):
        self.pos = pos
    def read(self, bytes=None):
        opener = urllib2.build_opener(byterange.HTTPRangeHandler())
        urllib2.install_opener(opener)
        req = urllib2.Request(self.url)
        end = ''
        if bytes:
            end = self.pos + bytes - 1
        req.add_header('Range', 'bytes=%d-%s' % (self.pos, end))
        f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
        data = f.read()
        if bytes:
            data = data[:bytes]
        return data