--- a/mercurial/httprepo.py	Sun Jul 30 22:52:34 2006 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/httprepo.py	Mon Jul 31 07:11:12 2006 -0700
@@ -339,3 +339,13 @@
             raise util.Abort(_('Python support for SSL and HTTPS '
                                'is not installed'))
         httprepository.__init__(self, ui, path)
+
+def instance(ui, path, create):
+    if create:
+        raise util.Abort(_('cannot create new http repository'))
+    if path.startswith('hg:'):
+        ui.warn(_("hg:// syntax is deprecated, please use http:// instead\n"))
+        path = 'http:' + path[3:]
+    if path.startswith('https:'):
+        return httpsrepository(ui, path)
+    return httprepository(ui, path)