serve: remove connection close hack for Python 2.3 Introduced in 276de216d2c5 and no longer needed - BaseHTTPServer handles connection closing just fine if we don't mess with its internals.

hgweb: pass the actual response body to request.response, not just the length This makes it less likely to send a response that doesn't match Content-Length.

hgweb: don't pass empty response chunks on hgweb internals will often produce empty writes - especially when returning compressed data. hgweb is no middleware application and there is thus no reason to pass them on to be processed in other layers.

hgweb: remove handling of any else than strings from request.write Iterators should be returned WSGI style, not written. And apparently all of hgweb do that.

serve: send response headers even if response has no body The headers would usually be sent anyway because the app did a number of writes of empty strings.

hgweb: simplify wsgirequest header handling Remove leaky header abstraction and prepare for other encodings.

hgweb: make type a mandatory parameter to request.respond There will thus always be headers and the runtime check can be removed.