Redo LocationManager to use HTML5 History API

runtime/bin/vmservice/client/lib/service_html.dart

Index: runtime/bin/vmservice/client/lib/service_html.dart
diff --git a/runtime/bin/vmservice/client/lib/service_html.dart b/runtime/bin/vmservice/client/lib/service_html.dart
index bd611a55e666700ea0433804f6863a00e3fae4f5..ab63b99751320b8732ec94f8254438fff636b507 100644
--- a/runtime/bin/vmservice/client/lib/service_html.dart
+++ b/runtime/bin/vmservice/client/lib/service_html.dart
@@ -32,19 +32,28 @@ class HttpVM extends VM {
   }
 
   Future<String> getString(String id) {
+    // Ensure we don't request host//id.
+    if (host.endsWith('/') && id.startsWith('/')) {
+      id = id.substring(1);
+    }
     Logger.root.info('Fetching $id from $host');
-    return HttpRequest.getString(host + id).catchError((error) {
+    return HttpRequest.request(host + id,
+                               requestHeaders: {
+                                  'observatory': 'observatory'

[turnidge, 2014/06/04 18:02:24]

Header names are usually Dashed-With-Capital-Letters.  Instead of using
'observatory' as the payload, how about a version string, e.g:

'Observatory-Version': '1.0'

[Cutch, 2014/06/04 20:28:57]

Done.

+                               }).then((HttpRequest request) {
+        return request.responseText;
+      }).catchError((error) {
       // If we get an error here, the network request has failed.
-      Logger.root.severe('HttpRequest.getString failed.');
+      Logger.root.severe('HttpRequest.request failed.');
       var request = error.target;
       return JSON.encode({
           'type': 'ServiceException',
           'id': '',
-          'response': error.target.responseText,
+          'response': request.responseText,
           'kind': 'NetworkException',
-          'message': 'Could not connect to service. Check that you started the'
-                     ' VM with the following flags:\n --enable-vm-service'
-                    ' --pause-isolates-on-exit'
+          'message': 'Could not connect to service (${request.statusText}). '
+                     'Check that you started the VM with the following flags: '
+                     '--observe'
         });
     });
   }