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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

  $ . "$TESTDIR/narrow-library.sh"

  $ hg init master
  $ cd master
  $ mkdir dir
  $ mkdir dir/src
  $ cd dir/src
  $ for x in `$TESTDIR/seq.py 20`; do echo $x > "f$x"; hg add "f$x"; hg commit -m "Commit src $x"; done
  $ cd ..
  $ mkdir tests
  $ cd tests
  $ for x in `$TESTDIR/seq.py 20`; do echo $x > "t$x"; hg add "t$x"; hg commit -m "Commit test $x"; done
  $ cd ../../..

narrow clone a file, f10

  $ hg clone --narrow ssh://user@dummy/master narrow --noupdate --include "dir/src/f10"
  requesting all changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 40 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
  new changesets *:* (glob)
  $ cd narrow
  $ cat .hg/requires | grep -v generaldelta
  dotencode
  fncache
  narrowhg-experimental
  revlogv1
  store

  $ cat .hg/narrowspec
  [includes]
  path:dir/src/f10
  [excludes]
  $ hg update
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ find * | sort
  dir
  dir/src
  dir/src/f10
  $ cat dir/src/f10
  10

  $ cd ..

narrow clone a directory, tests/, except tests/t19

  $ hg clone --narrow ssh://user@dummy/master narrowdir --noupdate --include "dir/tests/" --exclude "dir/tests/t19"
  requesting all changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 40 changesets with 19 changes to 19 files
  new changesets *:* (glob)
  $ cd narrowdir
  $ cat .hg/narrowspec
  [includes]
  path:dir/tests
  [excludes]
  path:dir/tests/t19
  $ hg update
  19 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ find * | sort
  dir
  dir/tests
  dir/tests/t1
  dir/tests/t10
  dir/tests/t11
  dir/tests/t12
  dir/tests/t13
  dir/tests/t14
  dir/tests/t15
  dir/tests/t16
  dir/tests/t17
  dir/tests/t18
  dir/tests/t2
  dir/tests/t20
  dir/tests/t3
  dir/tests/t4
  dir/tests/t5
  dir/tests/t6
  dir/tests/t7
  dir/tests/t8
  dir/tests/t9

  $ cd ..

narrow clone everything but a directory (tests/)

  $ hg clone --narrow ssh://user@dummy/master narrowroot --noupdate --exclude "dir/tests"
  requesting all changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 40 changesets with 20 changes to 20 files
  new changesets *:* (glob)
  $ cd narrowroot
  $ cat .hg/narrowspec
  [includes]
  path:.
  [excludes]
  path:dir/tests
  $ hg update
  20 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ find * | sort
  dir
  dir/src
  dir/src/f1
  dir/src/f10
  dir/src/f11
  dir/src/f12
  dir/src/f13
  dir/src/f14
  dir/src/f15
  dir/src/f16
  dir/src/f17
  dir/src/f18
  dir/src/f19
  dir/src/f2
  dir/src/f20
  dir/src/f3
  dir/src/f4
  dir/src/f5
  dir/src/f6
  dir/src/f7
  dir/src/f8
  dir/src/f9

  $ cd ..