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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
author | Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> |
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date | Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:57:43 -0700 |
parents | b7a966ce89ed |
children | 009d0283de5f |
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$ hg init $ echo foo > a $ echo foo > b $ hg add a b $ hg ci -m "test" $ echo blah > a $ hg ci -m "branch a" $ hg co 0 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ echo blah > b $ hg ci -m "branch b" created new head $ HGMERGE=true hg merge 1 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved (branch merge, don't forget to commit) $ hg ci -m "merge b/a -> blah" $ hg co 1 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ HGMERGE=true hg merge 2 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved (branch merge, don't forget to commit) $ hg ci -m "merge a/b -> blah" created new head $ hg log changeset: 4:2ee31f665a86 tag: tip parent: 1:96155394af80 parent: 2:92cc4c306b19 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: merge a/b -> blah changeset: 3:e16a66a37edd parent: 2:92cc4c306b19 parent: 1:96155394af80 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: merge b/a -> blah changeset: 2:92cc4c306b19 parent: 0:5e0375449e74 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: branch b changeset: 1:96155394af80 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: branch a changeset: 0:5e0375449e74 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: test $ hg debugindex --changelog rev offset length ..... linkrev nodeid p1 p2 (re) 0 0 60 ..... 0 5e0375449e74 000000000000 000000000000 (re) 1 60 62 ..... 1 96155394af80 5e0375449e74 000000000000 (re) 2 122 62 ..... 2 92cc4c306b19 5e0375449e74 000000000000 (re) 3 184 69 ..... 3 e16a66a37edd 92cc4c306b19 96155394af80 (re) 4 253 69 ..... 4 2ee31f665a86 96155394af80 92cc4c306b19 (re) revision 1 $ hg manifest --debug 1 79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 a 2ed2a3912a0b24502043eae84ee4b279c18b90dd 644 b revision 2 $ hg manifest --debug 2 2ed2a3912a0b24502043eae84ee4b279c18b90dd 644 a 79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 b revision 3 $ hg manifest --debug 3 79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 a 79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 b revision 4 $ hg manifest --debug 4 79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 a 79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 b $ hg debugindex a rev offset length ..... linkrev nodeid p1 p2 (re) 0 0 5 ..... 0 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000 000000000000 (re) 1 5 6 ..... 1 79d7492df40a 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000 (re) $ hg verify checking changesets checking manifests crosschecking files in changesets and manifests checking files 2 files, 5 changesets, 4 total revisions