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wireproto: require POST for all HTTPv2 requests

Wire protocol version 1 transfers argument data via request
headers by default. This has historically caused problems because
servers institute limits on the length of individual HTTP headers
as well as the total size of all request headers. Mercurial servers
can advertise the maximum length of an individual header. But
there's no guarantee any intermediate HTTP agents will accept
headers up to that length.

In the existing wire protocol, server operators typically also
key off the HTTP request method to implement authentication.
For example, GET requests translate to read-only requests and
can be allowed. But read-write commands must use POST and require
authentication. This has typically worked because the only wire
protocol commands that use POST modify the repo (e.g. the
"unbundle" command).

There is an experimental feature to enable clients to transmit
argument data via POST request bodies. This is technically a
better and more robust solution. But we can't enable it by default
because of servers assuming POST means write access.

In version 2 of the wire protocol, the permissions of a request
are encoded in the URL. And with it being a new protocol in a new
URL space, we're not constrained by backwards compatibility
requirements.

This commit adopts the technically superior mechanism of using
HTTP request bodies to send argument data by requiring POST for
all commands. Strictly speaking, it may be possible to send
request bodies on GET requests. But my experience is that not all
HTTP stacks support this. POST pretty much always works. Using POST
for read-only operations does sacrifice some RESTful design
purity. But this API cares about practicality, not about being
in Roy T. Fielding's REST ivory tower.

There's a chance we may relax this restriction in the future. But
for now, I want to see how far we can get with a POST only API.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2837

# sshprotoext.py - Extension to test behavior of SSH protocol
#
# Copyright 2018 Gregory Szorc <[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.

# This extension replaces the SSH server started via `hg serve --stdio`.
# The server behaves differently depending on environment variables.

from __future__ import absolute_import

from mercurial import (
    error,
    extensions,
    registrar,
    sshpeer,
    wireproto,
    wireprotoserver,
)

configtable = {}
configitem = registrar.configitem(configtable)

configitem(b'sshpeer', b'mode', default=None)
configitem(b'sshpeer', b'handshake-mode', default=None)

class bannerserver(wireprotoserver.sshserver):
    """Server that sends a banner to stdout."""
    def serve_forever(self):
        for i in range(10):
            self._fout.write(b'banner: line %d\n' % i)

        super(bannerserver, self).serve_forever()

class prehelloserver(wireprotoserver.sshserver):
    """Tests behavior when connecting to <0.9.1 servers.

    The ``hello`` wire protocol command was introduced in Mercurial
    0.9.1. Modern clients send the ``hello`` command when connecting
    to SSH servers. This mock server tests behavior of the handshake
    when ``hello`` is not supported.
    """
    def serve_forever(self):
        l = self._fin.readline()
        assert l == b'hello\n'
        # Respond to unknown commands with an empty reply.
        wireprotoserver._sshv1respondbytes(self._fout, b'')
        l = self._fin.readline()
        assert l == b'between\n'
        proto = wireprotoserver.sshv1protocolhandler(self._ui, self._fin,
                                                     self._fout)
        rsp = wireproto.dispatch(self._repo, proto, b'between')
        wireprotoserver._sshv1respondbytes(self._fout, rsp.data)

        super(prehelloserver, self).serve_forever()

def performhandshake(orig, ui, stdin, stdout, stderr):
    """Wrapped version of sshpeer._performhandshake to send extra commands."""
    mode = ui.config(b'sshpeer', b'handshake-mode')
    if mode == b'pre-no-args':
        ui.debug(b'sending no-args command\n')
        stdin.write(b'no-args\n')
        stdin.flush()
        return orig(ui, stdin, stdout, stderr)
    elif mode == b'pre-multiple-no-args':
        ui.debug(b'sending unknown1 command\n')
        stdin.write(b'unknown1\n')
        ui.debug(b'sending unknown2 command\n')
        stdin.write(b'unknown2\n')
        ui.debug(b'sending unknown3 command\n')
        stdin.write(b'unknown3\n')
        stdin.flush()
        return orig(ui, stdin, stdout, stderr)
    else:
        raise error.ProgrammingError(b'unknown HANDSHAKECOMMANDMODE: %s' %
                                     mode)

def extsetup(ui):
    # It's easier for tests to define the server behavior via environment
    # variables than config options. This is because `hg serve --stdio`
    # has to be invoked with a certain form for security reasons and
    # `dummyssh` can't just add `--config` flags to the command line.
    servermode = ui.environ.get(b'SSHSERVERMODE')

    if servermode == b'banner':
        wireprotoserver.sshserver = bannerserver
    elif servermode == b'no-hello':
        wireprotoserver.sshserver = prehelloserver
    elif servermode:
        raise error.ProgrammingError(b'unknown server mode: %s' % servermode)

    peermode = ui.config(b'sshpeer', b'mode')

    if peermode == b'extra-handshake-commands':
        extensions.wrapfunction(sshpeer, '_performhandshake', performhandshake)
    elif peermode:
        raise error.ProgrammingError(b'unknown peer mode: %s' % peermode)