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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

Enable obsolete markers

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
  > [experimental]
  > evolution.createmarkers=True
  > [phases]
  > publish=False
  > EOF

Build a repo with some cacheable bits:

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a

  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -qAm0
  $ hg tag t1
  $ hg book -i bk1

  $ hg branch -q b2
  $ hg ci -Am1
  $ hg tag t2

  $ echo dumb > dumb
  $ hg ci -qAmdumb
  $ hg debugobsolete b1174d11b69e63cb0c5726621a43c859f0858d7f
  obsoleted 1 changesets

  $ hg phase -pr t1
  $ hg phase -fsr t2

Make a helper function to check cache damage invariants:

- command output shouldn't change
- cache should be present after first use
- corruption/repair should be silent (no exceptions or warnings)
- cache should survive deletion, overwrite, and append
- unreadable / unwriteable caches should be ignored
- cache should be rebuilt after corruption

  $ damage() {
  >  CMD=$1
  >  CACHE=.hg/cache/$2
  >  CLEAN=$3
  >  hg $CMD > before
  >  test -f $CACHE || echo "not present"
  >  echo bad > $CACHE
  >  test -z "$CLEAN" || $CLEAN
  >  hg $CMD > after
  >  "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff" before after || echo "*** overwrite corruption"
  >  echo corruption >> $CACHE
  >  test -z "$CLEAN" || $CLEAN
  >  hg $CMD > after
  >  "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff" before after || echo "*** append corruption"
  >  rm $CACHE
  >  mkdir $CACHE
  >  test -z "$CLEAN" || $CLEAN
  >  hg $CMD > after
  >  "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff" before after || echo "*** read-only corruption"
  >  test -d $CACHE || echo "*** directory clobbered"
  >  rmdir $CACHE
  >  test -z "$CLEAN" || $CLEAN
  >  hg $CMD > after
  >  "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff" before after || echo "*** missing corruption"
  >  test -f $CACHE || echo "not rebuilt"
  > }

Beat up tags caches:

  $ damage "tags --hidden" tags2
  $ damage tags tags2-visible
  $ damage "tag -f t3" hgtagsfnodes1
  1 new orphan changesets
  1 new orphan changesets
  1 new orphan changesets
  1 new orphan changesets
  1 new orphan changesets

Beat up branch caches:

  $ damage branches branch2-base "rm .hg/cache/branch2-[vs]*"
  $ damage branches branch2-served "rm .hg/cache/branch2-[bv]*"
  $ damage branches branch2-visible
  $ damage "log -r branch(.)" rbc-names-v1
  $ damage "log -r branch(default)" rbc-names-v1
  $ damage "log -r branch(b2)" rbc-revs-v1

We currently can't detect an rbc cache with unknown names:

  $ damage "log -qr branch(b2)" rbc-names-v1
  --- before	* (glob)
  +++ after	* (glob)
  @@ -1,8 +?,0 @@ (glob)
  -2:5fb7d38b9dc4
  -3:60b597ffdafa
  -4:b1174d11b69e
  -5:6354685872c0
  -6:5ebc725f1bef
  -7:7b76eec2f273
  -8:ef3428d9d644
  -9:ba7a936bc03c
  *** append corruption