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keepalive: set buffering=True to do more efficient reads of headers

Support for buffering was added to python in d09d6fe31b61, first released with
python2.7.  Without this, the entirety of the response headers is read
byte-by-byte (it does more efficient reads when it gets to the non-header part
of the response).

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.