hgweb Odd-string length error

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 11:53 -0400, Jérôme Godbout wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to setup a hgweb server with Apache 2.2 (32 bits) under Windows
> 7 (64bits). I got it to serve and can browse the file at
> my http://build_server/hg/MainRepos properly. I can see the file, the
> branch, the graph, the images are loading, etc. But I cannot
> pull from the same address, I always end up with the following error:
> "Odd-string length" into wireproto.py
> 
> Here's an example of error message with TortoiseHg (it's most verbatim then
> the command line):
> #########################################
>     #!python
>     ** Mercurial version (3.0.1).  TortoiseHg version (3.0.1)
>     ** Command: --nofork workbench
>     ** CWD: F:\MainRepos
>     ** Encoding: cp1252
>     ** Extensions loaded:
>     ** Python version: 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:24) [MSC v.1500
> 64 bit (AMD64)]
>     ** Windows version: sys.getwindowsversion(major=6, minor=1, build=7601,
> platform=2, service_pack='Service Pack 1')
>     ** Processor architecture: x64
>     ** Qt-4.8.5 PyQt-4.10.3 QScintilla-2.7.2
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "tortoisehg\hgqt\thread.pyo", line 304, in run
>       File "tortoisehg\util\hglib.pyo", line 710, in dispatch
>       File "mercurial\dispatch.pyo", line 819, in _dispatch
>       File "mercurial\dispatch.pyo", line 599, in runcommand
>       File "mercurial\dispatch.pyo", line 910, in _runcommand
>       File "mercurial\dispatch.pyo", line 881, in checkargs
>       File "mercurial\dispatch.pyo", line 816, in <lambda>
>       File "mercurial\util.pyo", line 518, in check
>       File "mercurial\commands.pyo", line 4607, in pull
>       File "mercurial\localrepo.pyo", line 1708, in pull
>       File "mercurial\exchange.pyo", line 539, in pull
>       File "mercurial\exchange.pyo", line 564, in _pulldiscovery
>       File "mercurial\discovery.pyo", line 46, in findcommonincoming
>       File "mercurial\setdiscovery.pyo", line 140, in findcommonheads
>       File "mercurial\wireproto.pyo", line 123, in submit
>       File "mercurial\wireproto.pyo", line 129, in _submitreq
>       File "mercurial\wireproto.pyo", line 226, in heads
>       File "mercurial\wireproto.pyo", line 171, in decodelist
>     TypeError: Odd-length string
> ########################################

Almost certainly a server error. Check your server's _error_ logs (as
you're on Windows, they'll be in a hard-to-find place that's not your
access logs).

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