An lws context usually contains a processwide fd -> wsi lookup table.
This allows any possible fd returned by a *nix type OS to be immediately
converted to a wsi just by indexing an array of struct lws * the size of
the highest possible fd, as found by ulimit -n or similar.
This works modestly for Linux type systems where the default ulimit -n for
a process is 1024, it means a 4KB or 8KB lookup table for 32-bit or
64-bit systems.
However in the case your lws usage is much simpler, like one outgoing
client connection and no serving, this represents increasing waste. It's
made much worse if the system has a much larger default ulimit -n, eg 1M,
the table is occupying 4MB or 8MB, of which you will only use one.
Even so, because lws can't be sure the OS won't return a socket fd at any
number up to (ulimit -n - 1), it has to allocate the whole lookup table
at the moment.
This patch looks to see if the context creation info is setting
info->fd_limit_per_thread... if it leaves it at the default 0, then
everything is as it was before this patch. However if finds that
(info->fd_limit_per_thread * actual_number_of_service_threads) where
the default number of service threads is 1, is less than the fd limit
set by ulimit -n, lws switches to a slower lookup table scheme, which
only allocates the requested number of slots. Lookups happen then by
iterating the table and comparing rather than indexing the array
directly, which is obviously somewhat of a performance hit.
However in the case where you know lws will only have a very few wsi
maximum, this method can very usefully trade off speed to be able to
avoid the allocation sized by ulimit -n.
minimal examples for client that can make use of this are also modified
by this patch to use the smaller context allocations.
Generic sessions has been overdue some love to align it with
the progress in the rest of lws.
1) Strict Content Security Policy
2) http2 compatibility
3) fixes and additions for use in a separate process via unix domain socket
4) work on ws and http proxying in lws
5) add minimal example
https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/issues/1550
rx flow control needs to handle the situation that it is draining from
a previous rx flow control period, and the user code reasserts rx flow
control partway through that.
The accounting for the used rx then boils down to only trimming the
rxflow buflist we were "replaying" to consume however much we managed
to deliver of that this time before the rx flow control came again.
"Normal" rx consumption is wrong in this case, since we accounted for
it entirely in the rxflow cache buflist.
The patch recognizes this situation, does the accounting in the cache
buflist, and then lies to the caller that there was no rx consumption
to be accounted for at his level.
lws has been able to proxy h2 or h1 inbound connections to an
h1 onward connection for a while now. It's simple to use just
build with LWS_WITH_HTTP_PROXY and make a mount where the origin
is the onward connection details. Unix sockets can also be
used as the onward connection.
This patch extends the support to be able to also do the same for
inbound h2 or h1 ws upgrades to an h1 ws onward connection as well.
This allows you to offer completely different services in a
common URL space, including ones that connect back by ws / wss.
The callback flow is a bit more disruptive than doing the iteration
directly in your function. This helps by passing a user void *
into the callback set as an lws_dll[2]_foreach_safe() arg.
On lwsws, incoming ws connections to the default vhost
are not rejected by the dummy protocol handler and not
really serviced either, leading to bots connecting to it to
get immortal, idle ws connections with no timeout (since it's an
established ws connection).
Rejecting these connections by default by adding a handler
for ESTABLISHED in the dummy handler will solve it nicely,
but it will break an unknown number of dumb. protocol-less
user implementations that rely on this behaviour by using
break; from their own ESTABLISHED handler and calling
through to the currently NOP dummy handler one.
Add support to assertively disable the default protocol
index used for subprotocol-less ws connections instead.
RFC7692 states that control messages should not be compressed so there is no
need to inflate these messages.
There can be a bug if a control message is received while processing a
compressed message since lws relies on the RSV bit of the first message to
inflate the rx buffer or not.
Here we also check the opcode to only inflate a message if it is a data message.
Fixes: #1470
Until now basic auth only protected http actions in the protected
mount.
This extends the existing basic auth scheme to also be consulted for
ws upgrades if a "basic-auth" pvo exists on the selected protocol for
the vhost. The value of the pvo is the usual basic auth credentials
file same as for the http case.
https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/issues/1423
If you vhost->options has the flag LWS_SERVER_OPTION_VHOST_UPG_STRICT_HOST_CHECK,
then if the server is sent an upgrade request, the content of the Host: header is
required to match the vhost name + port. The port is set to the well-known values
of 80 and 443 if no :port on the host: value, depending on tls or not on the
connection.
minimal-ws-server can now take a -h flag to set this. lejp-conf (eg, lwsws) can now take
a flag strict-host-check on the vhost to enable it as well.
This allows the client stuff to understand that addresses beginning with '+'
represent unix sockets.
If the first character after the '+' is '@', it understands that the '@'
should be read as '\0', in order to use Linux "abstract namespace"
sockets.
Further the lws_parse_uri() helper is extended to understand the convention
that an address starting with + is a unix socket, and treats the socket
path as delimited by ':', eg
http://+/var/run/mysocket:/my/path
HTTP Proxy is updated to allow mounts to these unix socket paths.
Proxy connections go out on h1, but are dynamically translated to h1 or h2
on the incoming side.
Proxy usage of libhubbub is separated out... LWS_WITH_HTTP_PROXY is on by
default, and LWS_WITH_HUBBUB is off by default.
Now individual role callbacks are added in an earlier patch for protocol
bind and unbind, change the ws upgrade action to use the generic protocol
bind and unbind apis so the corresponding callbacks are issued for ws.
Various kinds of input stashing were replaced with a single buflist before
v3.0... this patch replaces the partial send arrangements with its own buflist
in the same way.
Buflists as the name says are growable lists of allocations in a linked-list
that take care of book-keeping what's added and removed (even if what is
removed is less than the current buffer on the list).
The immediate result is that we no longer have to freak out if we had a partial
buffered and new output is coming... we can just pile it on the end of the
buflist and keep draining the front of it.
Likewise we no longer need to be rabid about reporting multiple attempts to
send stuff without going back to the event loop, although not doing that
will introduce inefficiencies we don't have to term it "illegal" any more.
Since buflists have proven reliable on the input side and the logic for dealing
with truncated "non-network events" was already there this internal-only change
should be relatively self-contained.
HTTP server protocols have had for a while LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP_DROP/BIND_PROTOCOL
callbacks that mark when a wsi is attched to a protocol and detached.
It turns out this is generally useful for everything to know when a wsi is
joining a protocol and definitively completely finished with a protocol.
Particularly with client wsi where you provided the userdata externally, this
makes a clear point to free() it on the protocol binding being dropped.
This patch adds protocol bind / unbind callbacks to the role definition and
lets them operate on all roles. For the various roles
HTTP server: LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP_BIND/DROP_PROTOCOL as before
HTTP client: LWS_CALLBACK_CLIENT_HTTP_BIND/DROP_PROTOCOL
ws server: LWS_CALLBACK_WS_SERVER_BIND/DROP_PROTOCOL
ws client: LWS_CALLBACK_WS_CLIENT_BIND/DROP_PROTOCOL
raw file: LWS_CALLBACK_RAW_FILE_BIND/DROP_PROTOCOL
raw skt: LWS_CALLBACK_RAW_SKT_BIND/DROP_PROTOCOL
- split raw role into separate skt and file
- remove all special knowledge from the adoption
apis and migrate to core
- remove all special knowledge from client_connect
stuff, and have it discovered by iterating the
role callbacks to let those choose how to bind;
migrate to core
- retire the old deprecated client apis pre-
client_connect_info
Several new ops are planned for tls... so better to bite the bullet and
clean it out to the same level as roles + event-libs first.
Also adds a new travis target "mbedtls" and all the tests except
autobahn against mbedtls build.
