view tests/test-http-branchmap.t @ 37048:fc5e261915b9

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

#require killdaemons

  $ hgserve() {
  >     hg serve -a localhost -p $HGPORT1 -d --pid-file=hg.pid \
  >       -E errors.log -v $@ > startup.log
  >     # Grepping hg serve stdout would hang on Windows
  >     grep -v 'listening at' startup.log
  >     cat hg.pid >> "$DAEMON_PIDS"
  > }
  $ hg init a
  $ hg --encoding utf-8 -R a branch æ
  marked working directory as branch \xc3\xa6 (esc)
  (branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
  $ echo foo > a/foo
  $ hg -R a ci -Am foo
  adding foo
  $ hgserve -R a --config web.push_ssl=False --config web.allow_push=* --encoding latin1
  $ hg --encoding utf-8 clone http://localhost:$HGPORT1 b
  requesting all changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
  new changesets 867c11ce77b8
  updating to branch \xc3\xa6 (esc)
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ hg --encoding utf-8 -R b log
  changeset:   0:867c11ce77b8
  branch:      \xc3\xa6 (esc)
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     foo
  
  $ echo bar >> b/foo
  $ hg -R b ci -m bar
  $ hg --encoding utf-8 -R b push
  pushing to http://localhost:$HGPORT1/
  searching for changes
  remote: adding changesets
  remote: adding manifests
  remote: adding file changes
  remote: added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
  $ hg -R a --encoding utf-8 log
  changeset:   1:58e7c90d67cb
  branch:      \xc3\xa6 (esc)
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     bar
  
  changeset:   0:867c11ce77b8
  branch:      \xc3\xa6 (esc)
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     foo
  
  $ killdaemons.py hg.pid

verify 7e7d56fe4833 (encoding fallback in branchmap to maintain compatibility with 1.3.x)

  $ cat <<EOF > oldhg
  > import sys
  > from mercurial import ui, hg, commands
  > 
  > class StdoutWrapper(object):
  >     def __init__(self, stdout):
  >         self._file = stdout
  > 
  >     def write(self, data):
  >         if data == b'47\n':
  >             # latin1 encoding is one %xx (3 bytes) shorter
  >             data = b'44\n'
  >         elif data.startswith(b'%C3%A6 '):
  >             # translate to latin1 encoding
  >             data = b'%%E6 %s' % data[7:]
  >         self._file.write(data)
  > 
  >     def __getattr__(self, name):
  >         return getattr(self._file, name)
  > 
  > sys.stdout = StdoutWrapper(getattr(sys.stdout, 'buffer', sys.stdout))
  > sys.stderr = StdoutWrapper(getattr(sys.stderr, 'buffer', sys.stderr))
  > 
  > myui = ui.ui.load()
  > repo = hg.repository(myui, b'a')
  > commands.serve(myui, repo, stdio=True, cmdserver=False)
  > EOF
  $ echo baz >> b/foo
  $ hg -R b ci -m baz
  $ hg push -R b -e "\"$PYTHON\" oldhg" ssh://dummy/ --encoding latin1
  pushing to ssh://dummy/
  searching for changes
  remote: adding changesets
  remote: adding manifests
  remote: adding file changes
  remote: added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files