view mercurial/httprangereader.py @ 1740:f95654385065

add --daemon option to serve command. for issue 45.
code looks odd because it is portable to windows. windows does not have
os.fork, so have to spawn and use pipe to tell parent ready instead.

# httprangereader.py - just what it says
#
# Copyright 2005 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
        req.add_header('Range', 'bytes=%d-%s' % (self.pos, end))
        f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
        return f.read()