The vfork optimized spawn, stdxxx and terminal handling in the cgi
implementation is quite mature and sophisticated, and useful for
other things unrelated to cgi. Break it out into its own public
api under LWS_WITH_SPAWN, off by default.
Expand it so the parent wsi is optional, and the role and protocol
bindings for stdxxx pipes can be set. Allow optional sul timeout
and external lws_dll2 owner for extant children.
Remove inline style from minimal http-server-cgi
This adds support for POST in both h1 and h2 queues / stream binding.
The previous queueing tried to keep the "leader" wsi who made the
actual connection around and have it act on the transaction queue
tail if it had done its own thing.
This refactors it so instead, who is the "leader" moves down the
queue and the queued guys inherit the fd, SSL * and queue from the
old leader as they take over.
This lets them operate in their own wsi identity directly and gets
rid of all the "effective wsi" checks, which was applied incompletely
and getting out of hand considering the separate lws_mux checks for
h2 and other muxed protocols alongside it.
This change also allows one wsi at a time to own the transaction for
POST. --post is added as an option to lws-minimal-http-client-multi
and 6 extra selftests with POST on h1/h2, pipelined or not and
staggered or not are added to the CI.
Add selectable event lib support to minimal-http-client-multi and
clean up context destroy flow so we can use lws_destroy_context() from
inside the callback to indicate we want to end the event loop, without
using the traditional "interrupted" flag and in a way that works no
matter which event loop backend is being used.
There are some minor public api type improvements rather than cast everywhere
inside lws and user code to work around them... these changed from int to
size_t
- lws_buflist_use_segment() return
- lws_tokenize_t .len and .token_len
- lws_tokenize_cstr() length
- lws_get_peer_simple() namelen
- lws_get_peer_simple_fd() namelen, int fd -> lws_sockfd_type fd
- lws_write_numeric_address() len
- lws_sa46_write_numeric_address() len
These changes are typically a NOP for user code
In the case code is composed into a single process, but it isn't monolithic in the
sense it's made up of modular "applications" that are written separate projects,
provide a way for the "applications" to request a callback from the lws event loop
thread context safely.
From the callback the applications can set up their operations on the lws event
loop and drop their own thread.
Since it requires system-specific locking to be threadsafe, provide a non-threadsafe
helper and then indirect the actual usage through a user-defined lws_system ops
function pointer that wraps the unsafe api with the system locking to make it safe.
This changes the approach of tx credit management to set the
initial stream tx credit window to zero. This is the only way
with RFC7540 to gain the ability to selectively precisely rx
flow control incoming streams.
At the time the headers are sent, a WINDOW_UPDATE is sent with
the initial tx credit towards us for that specific stream. By
default, this acts as before with a 256KB window added for both
the stream and the nwsi, and additional window management sent
as stuff is received.
It's now also possible to set a member in the client info
struct and a new option LCCSCF_H2_MANUAL_RXFLOW to precisely
manage both the initial tx credit for a specific stream and
the ongoing rate limit by meting out further tx credit
manually.
Add another minimal example http-client-h2-rxflow demonstrating how
to force a connection's peer's initial budget to transmit to us
and control it during the connection lifetime to restrict the amount
of incoming data we have to buffer.
This should be a NOP for h2 support and only affects internal
apis. But it lets us reuse the working and reliable h2 mux
arrangements directly in other protocols later, and share code
so building for h2 + new protocols can take advantage of common
mux child handling struct and code.
Break out common mux handling struct into its own type.
Convert all uses of members that used to be in wsi->h2 to wsi->mux
Audit all references to the members and break out generic helpers
for anything that is useful for other mux-capable protocols to
reuse wsi->mux related features.
This teaches http client stuff how to handle 303 redirects... these
can happen after POST where the server side wants you to come back with
a GET to the Location: mentioned.
lws client will follow the redirect and force GET, this works for both
h1 and h2. Client protocol handler has to act differently if it finds
it is connecting for the initial POST or the subsequent GET, it can
find out which by checking a new api lws_http_is_redirected_to_get(wsi)
which returns nonzero if in GET mode.
Minimal example for server form-post has a new --303 switch to enable
this behaviour there and the client post example has additions to
check lws_http_is_redirected_to_get().
The %.*s is very handy to print strings where you have a length, but
there is no NUL termination. It's quite widely supported but at least
one vendor RTOS toolchain doesn't have it.
Since there aren't that many uses of it yet, audit all uses and
convert to a new helper lws_strnncpy() which uses the smaller of
two lengths.
https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/issues/1746
Adding the final CRLF is a NOP at JSON level, but can disrupt hashing the
JSON if it isn't expecting it.
Add flags to the jwk export so it can be controlled... operation remains
unchanged for old values 0 and 1 but a second flag can be OR-ed to control
issue of final CRLF.
As it is, if time_t is 32-bit on the platform it might lead to
arithmetic overflow, so force it to lws_usec_t (uint64_t) even
though it works OK here on x86_64.
Add a minimal example aimed at testing the wsi hrtimer stability
consistently across platforms.
Add and disable by default hrtimer dump code (this is too expensive
and specific to internal testing to leave in for debug mode even if
it's not printed). If you hack it enabled, it will dump the sul
list for the pt and assert if the list is disordered.
Generic lws_system IPv4 DHCP client
- netif and route control via lib/plat apis
- linux plat pieces implemented
- Uses raw ip socket for UDP broadcast and rx
- security-aware
- usual stuff plus up to 4 x dns server
If it's enabled for build, it holds the system
state at DHCP until at least one registered interface
has acquired a set of IP / mask / router / DNS server
It uses PF_PACKET which is Linux-only atm. But those
areas are isolated into plat code.
TODOs
- lease timing and reacquire
- plat pieces for other than Linux
lws has been able to generate client multipart mime as shown
in minimal-http-client-post, but it requires a lot of user
boilerplate to handle the boundary, related transaction header,
and multipart headers.
This patch adds a client creation flag to indicate it will
carry multipart mime, which autocreates the boundary string
and applies the transaction header with it, and an api to
form the boundary headers between the different mime parts
and the terminating boundary.
This affects max header size since we use the latter half
of the pt_serv_buf to prepare the (possibly huge) auth token.
Adapt the pt_serv_buf_size in the hugeurl example.
Rather than do all switches by hand on the minimal examples,
add a helper that knows some "builtin" ones like -d and
others to set context options you might want to use in
any example.
Introduce a generic lws_state object with notification handlers
that may be registered in a chain.
Implement one of those in the context to manage the "system state".
Allow other pieces of lws and user code to register notification
handlers on a context list. Handlers can object to or take over
responsibility to move forward and retry system state changes if
they know that some dependent action must succeed first.
For example if the system time is invalid, we cannot move on to
a state where anything can do tls until that has been corrected.
Refactor everything around ping / pong handling in ws and h2, so there
is instead a protocol-independent validity lws_sul tracking how long it
has been since the last exchange that confirms the operation of the
network connection in both directions.
Clean out periodic role callback and replace the last two role users
with discrete lws_sul for each pt.
It was already correct but add helpers to isolate and deduplicate
processing adding and closing a generically immortal stream.
Change the default 31s h2 network connection timeout to be settable
by .keepalive_timeout if nonzero.
Add a public api allowing a client h2 stream to transition to
half-closed LOCAL (by sending a 0-byte DATA with END_STREAM) and
mark itself as immortal to create a read-only long-poll stream
if the server allows it.
Add a vhost server option flag LWS_SERVER_OPTION_VH_H2_HALF_CLOSED_LONG_POLL
which allows the vhost to treat half-closed remotes as immortal long
poll streams.
Old certs were getting near the end of their life and we switched the
server to use letsencrypt. The root and intermediate needed for the
mbedtls case changed accordingly
Remove LWS_LATENCY.
Add the option LWS_WITH_DETAILED_LATENCY, allowing lws to collect very detailed
information on every read and write, and allow the user code to provide
a callback to process events.
This adds the option to have lws do its own dns resolution on
the event loop, without blocking. Existing implementations get
the name resolution done by the libc, which is blocking. In
the case you are opening client connections but need to carefully
manage latency, another connection opening and doing the name
resolution becomes a big problem.
Currently it supports
- ipv4 / A records
- ipv6 / AAAA records
- ipv4-over-ipv6 ::ffff:1.2.3.4 A record promotion for ipv6
- only one server supported over UDP :53
- nameserver discovery on linux, windows, freertos
It also has some nice advantages
- lws-style paranoid response parsing
- random unique tid generation to increase difficulty of poisoning
- it's really integrated with the lws event loop, it does not spawn
threads or use the libc resolver, and of course no blocking at all
- platform-specific server address capturing (from /etc/resolv.conf
on linux, windows apis on windows)
- it has LRU caching
- piggybacking (multiple requests before the first completes go on
a list on the first request, not spawn multiple requests)
- observes TTL in cache
- TTL and timeout use lws_sul timers on the event loop
- ipv6 pieces only built if cmake LWS_IPV6 enabled
