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serve: use chunked encoding in hgweb responses

'hg serve' used to close connections when sending a response with unknown
length ... such as a bundle or archive.

Now chunked encoding will be used for responses with unknown length, and the
connection do thus not have to be closed to indicate the end of the response.

Chunked encoding is only used if the length is unknown, if the connection
wouldn't be closed for other reasons, AND if it is a HTTP 1.1 request.

This will not benefit other users of hgweb ... but it can serve as an example
that it can be done.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing:

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.