Disable hgweb browsing

[Paul Boddie]

On 30/05/11 10:03, moroswitie wrote:
>
> We are setting up multiple repositories and are creating a custom repository
> browser. To avoid confusion we would like to disable the build in browser.
>
> By making use of the webserver, we are able to allow/disallow pull/push
> actions based on the username and password. Some developers are not able to
> make use of ssh all the time so we are looking for a solution to do this
> with http, and could only find the hgweb.cgi script to do this. If there are
> other ways of allowing push/pull over http/https that would make things even
> easier. I hope that explains it a little better.

So you effectively want to use HTTP(S) as a transport for performing the 
normal "fundamental" hg operations, but to switch off the user-readable 
Web pages for repositories? Looking at mercurial.hgweb.hgweb_mod, it 
appears that after checking for the "fundamental" operations, the code 
then checks if one of the Web commands (defined in 
mercurial.hgweb.webcommands) is being used. I imagine that you could try 
editing the webcommands module's __all__ attribute, potentially leaving 
it as an empty list, and see how far this gets you.

Paul