mercurial/peer.py

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.

# peer.py - repository base classes for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
# Copyright 2006 Vadim Gelfer <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from i18n import _
import error

class peerrepository(object):

    def capable(self, name):
        '''tell whether repo supports named capability.
        return False if not supported.
        if boolean capability, return True.
        if string capability, return string.'''
        caps = self._capabilities()
        if name in caps:
            return True
        name_eq = name + '='
        for cap in caps:
            if cap.startswith(name_eq):
                return cap[len(name_eq):]
        return False

    def requirecap(self, name, purpose):
        '''raise an exception if the given capability is not present'''
        if not self.capable(name):
            raise error.CapabilityError(
                _('cannot %s; remote repository does not '
                  'support the %r capability') % (purpose, name))

    def local(self):
        '''return peer as a localrepo, or None'''
        return None

    def peer(self):
        return self

    def canpush(self):
        return True

    def close(self):
        pass