D3433: httppeer: detect redirect to URL without query string (issue5860)

indygreg (Gregory Szorc) phabricator at mercurial-scm.org
Mon Apr 30 23:31:10 UTC 2018


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REVISION SUMMARY
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/rHG197d10e157ce848129ff5e7a53cf81d4ca63a932 subtly changed the HTTP peer's handling of HTTP redirects.
  
  Before that changeset, we instantiated an HTTP peer instance and
  performed the capabilities lookup with that instance. The old code had
  the following relevant properties:
  
  1. The HTTP request layer would automatically follow HTTP redirects.
  2. An encountered HTTP redirect would update a peer instance variable pointing to the repo URL.
  3. The peer would automagically perform a "capabilities" command request if a caller requested capabilities but capabilities were not yet defined.
  
  The first HTTP request issued by a peer is for ?cmd=capabilities. If
  the server responds with an HTTP redirect to a ?cmd=capabilities URL,
  the HTTP request layer automatically followed it, retrieved a valid
  capabilities response, and the peer's base URL was updated
  automatically so subsequent requests used the proper URL. In other
  words, things "just worked."
  
  In the case where the server redirected to a URL without the
  ?cmd=capabilities query string, the HTTP request layer would follow
  the redirect and likely encounter HTML. The peer's base URL would be
  updated and the unexpected Content-Type would raise a RepoError. We
  would catch RepoError and immediately call between() (testing the case
  for pre 0.9.1 servers not supporting the "capabilities" command). e.g.
  
    try:
        inst._fetchcaps()
    except error.RepoError:
        inst.between([(nullid, nullid)])
  
  between() would eventually call into _callstream(). And _callstream()
  made a call to self.capable('httpheader'). capable() would call
  self.capabilities(), which would see that no capabilities were set
  (because HTML was returned for that request) and call the "capabilities"
  command to fetch capabilities. Because the base URL had been updated
  from the redirect, this 2nd "capabilities" command would succeed and
  the client would immediately call "between," which would also succeed.
  The legacy handshake succeeded. Only because "capabilities" was
  successfully executed as a side effect did the peer recognize that it
  was talking to a modern server. In other words, this all appeared to
  work accidentally.
  
  After https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/rHG197d10e157ce848129ff5e7a53cf81d4ca63a932, we stopped calling the "capabilities" command on
  the peer instance. Instead, we made the request via a low-level opener,
  detected the redirect as part of response handling code, and passed the
  redirected URL into the constructed peer instance.
  
  For cases where the redirected URL included the query string, this
  "just worked." But for cases where the redirected URL stripped the query
  string, we threw RepoError and because we removed the "between" handshake
  fallback, we fell through to the "is a static HTTP repo" check and
  performed an HTTP request for .hg/requires.
  
  While https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/rHG197d10e157ce848129ff5e7a53cf81d4ca63a932 was marked as backwards incompatible, the only
  intended backwards incompatible behavior was not performing the
  "between" fallback. It was not realized that the "between" command
  had the side-effect of recovering from an errant redirect that
  dropped the query string.
  
  This commit restores the previous behavior and allows clients to
  handle a redirect that drops the query string. In the case where
  the request is redirected and the query string is dropped, we raise
  a special case of RepoError. We then catch this special exception in
  the handshake code and perform another "capabilities" request against
  the redirected URL. If that works, all is well. Otherwise, we fall back
  to the "is a static HTTP repo" check.
  
  The new could is arguably better than before https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/rHG197d10e157ce848129ff5e7a53cf81d4ca63a932, as it is
  explicit about the expected behavior and we avoid performing a
  "between" request, saving a server round trip.

REPOSITORY
  rHG Mercurial

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3433

AFFECTED FILES
  mercurial/httppeer.py
  tests/test-http-protocol.t

CHANGE DETAILS

diff --git a/tests/test-http-protocol.t b/tests/test-http-protocol.t
--- a/tests/test-http-protocol.t
+++ b/tests/test-http-protocol.t
@@ -333,3 +333,394 @@
   response: [b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00']
 
   $ killdaemons.py
+
+HTTP client follows HTTP redirect on handshake to new repo
+
+  $ cd $TESTTMP
+
+  $ hg init redirector
+  $ hg init redirected
+  $ cd redirected
+  $ touch foo
+  $ hg -q commit -A -m initial
+  $ cd ..
+
+  $ cat > paths.conf << EOF
+  > [paths]
+  > / = $TESTTMP/*
+  > EOF
+
+  $ cat > redirectext.py << EOF
+  > from mercurial import extensions, wireprotoserver
+  > def wrappedcallhttp(orig, repo, req, res, proto, cmd):
+  >     path = req.advertisedurl[len(req.advertisedbaseurl):]
+  >     if not path.startswith(b'/redirector'):
+  >         return orig(repo, req, res, proto, cmd)
+  >     relpath = path[len(b'/redirector'):]
+  >     res.status = b'301 Redirect'
+  >     newurl = b'%s/redirected%s' % (req.advertisedbaseurl, relpath)
+  >     if not repo.ui.configbool('testing', 'redirectqs', True) and b'?' in newurl:
+  >         newurl = newurl[0:newurl.index(b'?')]
+  >     res.headers[b'Location'] = newurl
+  >     res.headers[b'Content-Type'] = b'text/plain'
+  >     res.setbodybytes(b'redirected')
+  >     return True
+  > 
+  > extensions.wrapfunction(wireprotoserver, '_callhttp', wrappedcallhttp)
+  > EOF
+
+  $ hg --config extensions.redirect=$TESTTMP/redirectext.py \
+  >    --config server.compressionengines=zlib \
+  >     serve --web-conf paths.conf --pid-file hg.pid -p $HGPORT -d
+  $ cat hg.pid > $DAEMON_PIDS
+
+Verify our HTTP 301 is served properly
+
+  $ hg --verbose debugwireproto --peer raw http://$LOCALIP:$HGPORT << EOF
+  > httprequest GET /redirector?cmd=capabilities
+  >     user-agent: test
+  > EOF
+  using raw connection to peer
+  s>     GET /redirector?cmd=capabilities HTTP/1.1\r\n
+  s>     Accept-Encoding: identity\r\n
+  s>     user-agent: test\r\n
+  s>     host: $LOCALIP:$HGPORT\r\n (glob)
+  s>     \r\n
+  s> makefile('rb', None)
+  s>     HTTP/1.1 301 Redirect\r\n
+  s>     Server: testing stub value\r\n
+  s>     Date: $HTTP_DATE$\r\n
+  s>     Location: http://$LOCALIP:$HGPORT/redirected?cmd=capabilities\r\n (glob)
+  s>     Content-Type: text/plain\r\n
+  s>     Content-Length: 10\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s>     redirected
+  s>     GET /redirected?cmd=capabilities HTTP/1.1\r\n
+  s>     Accept-Encoding: identity\r\n
+  s>     user-agent: test\r\n
+  s>     host: $LOCALIP:$HGPORT\r\n (glob)
+  s>     \r\n
+  s> makefile('rb', None)
+  s>     HTTP/1.1 200 Script output follows\r\n
+  s>     Server: testing stub value\r\n
+  s>     Date: $HTTP_DATE$\r\n
+  s>     Content-Type: application/mercurial-0.1\r\n
+  s>     Content-Length: 453\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s>     batch branchmap $USUAL_BUNDLE2_CAPS_SERVER$ changegroupsubset compression=$BUNDLE2_COMPRESSIONS$ getbundle httpheader=1024 httpmediatype=0.1rx,0.1tx,0.2tx known lookup pushkey streamreqs=generaldelta,revlogv1 unbundle=HG10GZ,HG10BZ,HG10UN unbundlehash
+
+Test with the HTTP peer
+
+  $ hg --verbose debugwireproto http://$LOCALIP:$HGPORT/redirector << EOF
+  > command heads
+  > EOF
+  s>     GET /redirector?cmd=capabilities HTTP/1.1\r\n
+  s>     Accept-Encoding: identity\r\n
+  s>     accept: application/mercurial-0.1\r\n
+  s>     host: $LOCALIP:$HGPORT\r\n (glob)
+  s>     user-agent: Mercurial debugwireproto\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s> makefile('rb', None)
+  s>     HTTP/1.1 301 Redirect\r\n
+  s>     Server: testing stub value\r\n
+  s>     Date: $HTTP_DATE$\r\n
+  s>     Location: http://$LOCALIP:$HGPORT/redirected?cmd=capabilities\r\n (glob)
+  s>     Content-Type: text/plain\r\n
+  s>     Content-Length: 10\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s>     redirected
+  s>     GET /redirected?cmd=capabilities HTTP/1.1\r\n
+  s>     Accept-Encoding: identity\r\n
+  s>     accept: application/mercurial-0.1\r\n
+  s>     host: $LOCALIP:$HGPORT\r\n (glob)
+  s>     user-agent: Mercurial debugwireproto\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s> makefile('rb', None)
+  s>     HTTP/1.1 200 Script output follows\r\n
+  s>     Server: testing stub value\r\n
+  s>     Date: $HTTP_DATE$\r\n
+  s>     Content-Type: application/mercurial-0.1\r\n
+  s>     Content-Length: 453\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  real URL is http://$LOCALIP:$HGPORT/redirected (glob)
+  s>     batch branchmap $USUAL_BUNDLE2_CAPS_SERVER$ changegroupsubset compression=$BUNDLE2_COMPRESSIONS$ getbundle httpheader=1024 httpmediatype=0.1rx,0.1tx,0.2tx known lookup pushkey streamreqs=generaldelta,revlogv1 unbundle=HG10GZ,HG10BZ,HG10UN unbundlehash
+  sending heads command
+  s>     GET /redirected?cmd=heads HTTP/1.1\r\n
+  s>     Accept-Encoding: identity\r\n
+  s>     vary: X-HgProto-1\r\n
+  s>     x-hgproto-1: 0.1 0.2 comp=$USUAL_COMPRESSIONS$ partial-pull\r\n
+  s>     accept: application/mercurial-0.1\r\n
+  s>     host: $LOCALIP:$HGPORT\r\n (glob)
+  s>     user-agent: Mercurial debugwireproto\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s> makefile('rb', None)
+  s>     HTTP/1.1 200 Script output follows\r\n
+  s>     Server: testing stub value\r\n
+  s>     Date: $HTTP_DATE$\r\n
+  s>     Content-Type: application/mercurial-0.1\r\n
+  s>     Content-Length: 41\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s>     96ee1d7354c4ad7372047672c36a1f561e3a6a4c\n
+  response: [b'\x96\xee\x1dsT\xc4\xadsr\x04vr\xc3j\x1fV\x1e:jL']
+
+  $ killdaemons.py
+
+Now test a variation where we strip the query string from the redirect URL.
+(SCM Manager apparently did this and clients would recover from it)
+
+  $ hg --config extensions.redirect=$TESTTMP/redirectext.py \
+  >    --config server.compressionengines=zlib \
+  >    --config testing.redirectqs=false \
+  >     serve --web-conf paths.conf --pid-file hg.pid -p $HGPORT -d
+  $ cat hg.pid > $DAEMON_PIDS
+
+  $ hg --verbose debugwireproto --peer raw http://$LOCALIP:$HGPORT << EOF
+  > httprequest GET /redirector?cmd=capabilities
+  >     user-agent: test
+  > EOF
+  using raw connection to peer
+  s>     GET /redirector?cmd=capabilities HTTP/1.1\r\n
+  s>     Accept-Encoding: identity\r\n
+  s>     user-agent: test\r\n
+  s>     host: $LOCALIP:$HGPORT\r\n (glob)
+  s>     \r\n
+  s> makefile('rb', None)
+  s>     HTTP/1.1 301 Redirect\r\n
+  s>     Server: testing stub value\r\n
+  s>     Date: $HTTP_DATE$\r\n
+  s>     Location: http://$LOCALIP:$HGPORT/redirected\r\n (glob)
+  s>     Content-Type: text/plain\r\n
+  s>     Content-Length: 10\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s>     redirected
+  s>     GET /redirected HTTP/1.1\r\n
+  s>     Accept-Encoding: identity\r\n
+  s>     user-agent: test\r\n
+  s>     host: $LOCALIP:$HGPORT\r\n (glob)
+  s>     \r\n
+  s> makefile('rb', None)
+  s>     HTTP/1.1 200 Script output follows\r\n
+  s>     Server: testing stub value\r\n
+  s>     Date: $HTTP_DATE$\r\n
+  s>     ETag: W/"*"\r\n (glob)
+  s>     Content-Type: text/html; charset=ascii\r\n
+  s>     Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s>     414\r\n
+  s>     <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">\n
+  s>     <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US">\n
+  s>     <head>\n
+  s>     <link rel="icon" href="/redirected/static/hgicon.png" type="image/png" />\n
+  s>     <meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow" />\n
+  s>     <link rel="stylesheet" href="/redirected/static/style-paper.css" type="text/css" />\n
+  s>     <script type="text/javascript" src="/redirected/static/mercurial.js"></script>\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     <title>redirected: log</title>\n
+  s>     <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml"\n
+  s>        href="/redirected/atom-log" title="Atom feed for redirected" />\n
+  s>     <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"\n
+  s>        href="/redirected/rss-log" title="RSS feed for redirected" />\n
+  s>     </head>\n
+  s>     <body>\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     <div class="container">\n
+  s>     <div class="menu">\n
+  s>     <div class="logo">\n
+  s>     <a href="https://mercurial-scm.org/">\n
+  s>     <img src="/redirected/static/hglogo.png" alt="mercurial" /></a>\n
+  s>     </div>\n
+  s>     <ul>\n
+  s>     <li class="active">log</li>\n
+  s>     <li><a href="/redirected/graph/tip">graph</a></li>\n
+  s>     <li><a href="/redirected/tags">tags</a></li>\n
+  s>     <li><a href="
+  s>     \r\n
+  s>     810\r\n
+  s>     /redirected/bookmarks">bookmarks</a></li>\n
+  s>     <li><a href="/redirected/branches">branches</a></li>\n
+  s>     </ul>\n
+  s>     <ul>\n
+  s>     <li><a href="/redirected/rev/tip">changeset</a></li>\n
+  s>     <li><a href="/redirected/file/tip">browse</a></li>\n
+  s>     </ul>\n
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+  s>     \n
+  s>     </ul>\n
+  s>     <ul>\n
+  s>      <li><a href="/redirected/help">help</a></li>\n
+  s>     </ul>\n
+  s>     <div class="atom-logo">\n
+  s>     <a href="/redirected/atom-log" title="subscribe to atom feed">\n
+  s>     <img class="atom-logo" src="/redirected/static/feed-icon-14x14.png" alt="atom feed" />\n
+  s>     </a>\n
+  s>     </div>\n
+  s>     </div>\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     <div class="main">\n
+  s>     <h2 class="breadcrumb"><a href="/">Mercurial</a> > <a href="/redirected">redirected</a> </h2>\n
+  s>     <h3>log</h3>\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     <form class="search" action="/redirected/log">\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     <p><input name="rev" id="search1" type="text" size="30" value="" /></p>\n
+  s>     <div id="hint">Find changesets by keywords (author, files, the commit message), revision\n
+  s>     number or hash, or <a href="/redirected/help/revsets">revset expression</a>.</div>\n
+  s>     </form>\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     <div class="navigate">\n
+  s>     <a href="/redirected/shortlog/tip?revcount=30">less</a>\n
+  s>     <a href="/redirected/shortlog/tip?revcount=120">more</a>\n
+  s>     | rev 0: <a href="/redirected/shortlog/96ee1d7354c4">(0)</a> <a href="/redirected/shortlog/tip">tip</a> \n
+  s>     </div>\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     <table class="bigtable">\n
+  s>     <thead>\n
+  s>      <tr>\n
+  s>       <th class="age">age</th>\n
+  s>       <th class="author">author</th>\n
+  s>       <th class="description">description</th>\n
+  s>      </tr>\n
+  s>     </thead>\n
+  s>     <tbody class="stripes2">\n
+  s>      <tr>\n
+  s>       <td class="age">Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</td>\n
+  s>       <td class="author">test</td>\n
+  s>       <td class="description">\n
+  s>        <a href="/redirected/rev/96ee1d7354c4">initial</a>\n
+  s>        <span class="phase">draft</span> <span class="branchhead">default</span> <span class="tag">tip</span> \n
+  s>       </td>\n
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+  s>     \n
+  s>     </tbody>\n
+  s>     </table>\n
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+  s>     <a href="/redirected/shortlog/tip?revcount=30">less</a>\n
+  s>     <a href="/redirected/shortlog/tip?revcount=120">more</a>\n
+  s>     | rev 0: <a href="/redirected/shortlog/96ee1d7354c4">(0)</a> <a href="/redirected/shortlog/tip">tip</a> \n
+  s>     </div>\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     <script type="text/javascript">\n
+  s>         ajaxScrollInit(\n
+  s>                 \'/redirected/shortlog/%next%\',\n
+  s>                 \'\', <!-- NEXTHASH\n
+  s>                 function (htmlText) {
+  s>     \r\n
+  s>     14a\r\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>                     var m = htmlText.match(/\'(\\w+)\', <!-- NEXTHASH/);\n
+  s>                     return m ? m[1] : null;\n
+  s>                 },\n
+  s>                 \'.bigtable > tbody\',\n
+  s>                 \'<tr class="%class%">\\\n
+  s>                 <td colspan="3" style="text-align: center;">%text%</td>\\\n
+  s>                 </tr>\'\n
+  s>         );\n
+  s>     </script>\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     </div>\n
+  s>     </div>\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     </body>\n
+  s>     </html>\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s>     0\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+
+  $ hg --verbose debugwireproto http://$LOCALIP:$HGPORT/redirector << EOF
+  > command heads
+  > EOF
+  s>     GET /redirector?cmd=capabilities HTTP/1.1\r\n
+  s>     Accept-Encoding: identity\r\n
+  s>     accept: application/mercurial-0.1\r\n
+  s>     host: $LOCALIP:$HGPORT\r\n (glob)
+  s>     user-agent: Mercurial debugwireproto\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s> makefile('rb', None)
+  s>     HTTP/1.1 301 Redirect\r\n
+  s>     Server: testing stub value\r\n
+  s>     Date: $HTTP_DATE$\r\n
+  s>     Location: http://$LOCALIP:$HGPORT/redirected\r\n (glob)
+  s>     Content-Type: text/plain\r\n
+  s>     Content-Length: 10\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s>     redirected
+  s>     GET /redirected HTTP/1.1\r\n
+  s>     Accept-Encoding: identity\r\n
+  s>     accept: application/mercurial-0.1\r\n
+  s>     host: $LOCALIP:$HGPORT\r\n (glob)
+  s>     user-agent: Mercurial debugwireproto\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s> makefile('rb', None)
+  s>     HTTP/1.1 200 Script output follows\r\n
+  s>     Server: testing stub value\r\n
+  s>     Date: $HTTP_DATE$\r\n
+  s>     ETag: W/"*"\r\n (glob)
+  s>     Content-Type: text/html; charset=ascii\r\n
+  s>     Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  real URL is http://$LOCALIP:$HGPORT/redirected (glob)
+  s>     414\r\n
+  s>     <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">\n
+  s>     <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US">\n
+  s>     <head>\n
+  s>     <link rel="icon" href="/redirected/static/hgicon.png" type="image/png" />\n
+  s>     <meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow" />\n
+  s>     <link rel="stylesheet" href="/redirected/static/style-paper.css" type="text/css" />\n
+  s>     <script type="text/javascript" src="/redirected/static/mercurial.js"></script>\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     <title>redirected: log</title>\n
+  s>     <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml"\n
+  s>        href="/redirected/atom-log" title="Atom feed for redirected" />\n
+  s>     <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"\n
+  s>        href="/redirected/rss-log" title="RSS feed for redirected" />\n
+  s>     </head>\n
+  s>     <body>\n
+  s>     \n
+  s>     <div class="container">\n
+  s>     <div class="menu">\n
+  s>     <div class="logo">\n
+  s>     <a href="https://mercurial-scm.org/">\n
+  s>     <img src="/redirected/static/hglogo.png" alt="mercurial" /></a>\n
+  s>     </div>\n
+  s>     <ul>\n
+  s>     <li class="active">log</li>\n
+  s>     <li><a href="/redirected/graph/tip">graph</a></li>\n
+  s>     <li><a href="/redirected/tags">tags</a
+  s>     GET /redirected?cmd=capabilities HTTP/1.1\r\n
+  s>     Accept-Encoding: identity\r\n
+  s>     accept: application/mercurial-0.1\r\n
+  s>     host: $LOCALIP:$HGPORT\r\n (glob)
+  s>     user-agent: Mercurial debugwireproto\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s> makefile('rb', None)
+  s>     HTTP/1.1 200 Script output follows\r\n
+  s>     Server: testing stub value\r\n
+  s>     Date: $HTTP_DATE$\r\n
+  s>     Content-Type: application/mercurial-0.1\r\n
+  s>     Content-Length: 453\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  real URL is http://$LOCALIP:$HGPORT/redirected (glob)
+  s>     batch branchmap $USUAL_BUNDLE2_CAPS_SERVER$ changegroupsubset compression=$BUNDLE2_COMPRESSIONS$ getbundle httpheader=1024 httpmediatype=0.1rx,0.1tx,0.2tx known lookup pushkey streamreqs=generaldelta,revlogv1 unbundle=HG10GZ,HG10BZ,HG10UN unbundlehash
+  sending heads command
+  s>     GET /redirected?cmd=heads HTTP/1.1\r\n
+  s>     Accept-Encoding: identity\r\n
+  s>     vary: X-HgProto-1\r\n
+  s>     x-hgproto-1: 0.1 0.2 comp=$USUAL_COMPRESSIONS$ partial-pull\r\n
+  s>     accept: application/mercurial-0.1\r\n
+  s>     host: $LOCALIP:$HGPORT\r\n (glob)
+  s>     user-agent: Mercurial debugwireproto\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s> makefile('rb', None)
+  s>     HTTP/1.1 200 Script output follows\r\n
+  s>     Server: testing stub value\r\n
+  s>     Date: $HTTP_DATE$\r\n
+  s>     Content-Type: application/mercurial-0.1\r\n
+  s>     Content-Length: 41\r\n
+  s>     \r\n
+  s>     96ee1d7354c4ad7372047672c36a1f561e3a6a4c\n
+  response: [b'\x96\xee\x1dsT\xc4\xadsr\x04vr\xc3j\x1fV\x1e:jL']
diff --git a/mercurial/httppeer.py b/mercurial/httppeer.py
--- a/mercurial/httppeer.py
+++ b/mercurial/httppeer.py
@@ -328,13 +328,24 @@
 
     return res
 
+class RedirectedRepoError(error.RepoError):
+    def __init__(self, msg, respurl):
+        super(RedirectedRepoError, self).__init__(msg)
+        self.respurl = respurl
+
 def parsev1commandresponse(ui, baseurl, requrl, qs, resp, compressible,
                            allowcbor=False):
     # record the url we got redirected to
+    redirected = False
     respurl = pycompat.bytesurl(resp.geturl())
     if respurl.endswith(qs):
         respurl = respurl[:-len(qs)]
+        qsdropped = False
+    else:
+        qsdropped = True
+
     if baseurl.rstrip('/') != respurl.rstrip('/'):
+        redirected = True
         if not ui.quiet:
             ui.warn(_('real URL is %s\n') % respurl)
 
@@ -351,10 +362,16 @@
     # application/hg-changegroup. We don't support such old servers.
     if not proto.startswith('application/mercurial-'):
         ui.debug("requested URL: '%s'\n" % util.hidepassword(requrl))
-        raise error.RepoError(
-            _("'%s' does not appear to be an hg repository:\n"
-              "---%%<--- (%s)\n%s\n---%%<---\n")
-            % (safeurl, proto or 'no content-type', resp.read(1024)))
+        msg = _("'%s' does not appear to be an hg repository:\n"
+                "---%%<--- (%s)\n%s\n---%%<---\n") % (
+            safeurl, proto or 'no content-type', resp.read(1024))
+
+        # Some servers may strip the query string from the redirect. We
+        # raise a special error type so callers can react to this specially.
+        if redirected and qsdropped:
+            raise RedirectedRepoError(msg, respurl)
+        else:
+            raise error.RepoError(msg)
 
     try:
         subtype = proto.split('-', 1)[1]
@@ -434,8 +451,6 @@
 
     # End of ipeercommands interface.
 
-    # look up capabilities only when needed
-
     def _callstream(self, cmd, _compressible=False, **args):
         args = pycompat.byteskwargs(args)
 
@@ -853,12 +868,32 @@
     req, requrl, qs = makev1commandrequest(ui, requestbuilder, caps,
                                            capable, url, 'capabilities',
                                            args)
-
     resp = sendrequest(ui, opener, req)
 
-    respurl, ct, resp = parsev1commandresponse(ui, url, requrl, qs, resp,
-                                               compressible=False,
-                                               allowcbor=advertisev2)
+    # The server may redirect us to the repo root, stripping the
+    # ?cmd=capabilities query string from the URL. The server would likely
+    # return HTML in this case and ``parsev1commandresponse()`` would raise.
+    # We catch this special case and re-issue the capabilities request against
+    # the new URL.
+    #
+    # We should ideally not do this, as a redirect that drops the query
+    # string from the URL is arguably a server bug. (Garbage in, garbage out).
+    # However,  Mercurial clients for several years appeared to handle this
+    # issue without behavior degradation. And according to issue 5860, it may
+    # be a longstanding bug in some server implementations. So we allow a
+    # redirect that drops the query string to "just work."
+    try:
+        respurl, ct, resp = parsev1commandresponse(ui, url, requrl, qs, resp,
+                                                   compressible=False,
+                                                   allowcbor=advertisev2)
+    except RedirectedRepoError as e:
+        req, requrl, qs = makev1commandrequest(ui, requestbuilder, caps,
+                                               capable, e.respurl,
+                                               'capabilities', args)
+        resp = sendrequest(ui, opener, req)
+        respurl, ct, resp = parsev1commandresponse(ui, url, requrl, qs, resp,
+                                                   compressible=False,
+                                                   allowcbor=advertisev2)
 
     try:
         rawdata = resp.read()



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