http client: support persistent connections. uses keepalive module from urlgrabber package. tested against "hg serve", cgi server, and through http proxy. used ethereal to verify that only one tcp connection used during entire "hg pull" sequence. if server supports keepalive, this makes latency of "hg pull" much lower.

#!/bin/sh
hg init 1
echo '[ui]' >> 1/.hg/hgrc
echo 'timeout = 10' >> 1/.hg/hgrc
echo foo > 1/foo
hg --cwd 1 ci -A -m foo
hg clone 1 2
hg clone 2 3
echo '[hooks]' >> 2/.hg/hgrc
echo 'changegroup.push = hg push -qf ../1' >> 2/.hg/hgrc
echo bar >> 3/foo
hg --cwd 3 ci -m bar
hg --cwd 3 push ../2