[PATCH] httprepo: long arguments support (issue2126)

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 16:27, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>> One of the reasons we were focusing on stashing stuff in headers is that
>> some folks might be relying on non-push requests being GETs in their web
>> server access rules. I'm not sure if this is a real problem, though.
>> Obviously, a POST approach is a lot cleaner.
>
> Meh, I don't like it. I guess our protocol is already more RPC-like
> than REST-like, but I would rather strive to keep idempotent requests
> as GET and use POST only for the unbundle command.

For caching and such? Would be a reason to teach Hg to use the POST
variant only for large requests. We could see if the new discovery can
work sufficiently well with request sizes that fit into GETs (for
repos with reasonable numbers of heads).
-parren