view tests/test-url-download.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 serve

  $ hg init server
  $ hg serve -R server -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg1.pid -E ../error.log
  $ cat hg1.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS

Check basic fetching

  $ hg debugdownload "http://localhost:$HGPORT/?cmd=lookup&key=tip"
  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  $ hg debugdownload  -o null.txt "http://localhost:$HGPORT/?cmd=lookup&key=null"
  $ cat null.txt
  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Check the request is made from the usual Mercurial logic
(rev details, give different content if the request has a Mercurial user agent)

  $ get-with-headers.py --headeronly "localhost:$HGPORT" "rev/tip" content-type
  200 Script output follows
  content-type: text/html; charset=ascii
  $ hg debugdownload "http://localhost:$HGPORT/rev/tip"
  
  # HG changeset patch
  # User 
  # Date 0 0
  # Node ID 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  
  
  
  

Check other kind of compatible url

  $ hg debugdownload ./null.txt
  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Test largefile URL
------------------

  $ cat << EOF >> $HGRCPATH
  > [extensions]
  > largefiles=
  > EOF

  $ killdaemons.py
  $ rm -f error.log hg1.pid
  $ hg serve -R server -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg1.pid -E error.log
  $ cat hg1.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS

  $ hg -R server debuglfput null.txt
  a57b57b39ee4dc3da1e03526596007f480ecdbe8

  $ hg --traceback debugdownload "largefile://a57b57b39ee4dc3da1e03526596007f480ecdbe8" --config paths.default=http://localhost:$HGPORT/
  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

from within a repository

  $ hg clone http://localhost:$HGPORT/ client
  no changes found
  updating to branch default
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cd client
  $ hg path
  default = http://localhost:$HGPORT/
  $ hg debugdownload "largefile://a57b57b39ee4dc3da1e03526596007f480ecdbe8"
  1 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  $ cd ..