SMTP was improved to use the new abstract stuff a while ago,
but it was only implemented with raw socket abstract transport,
and a couple of 'api cheats' remained passing network information
for the peer connection through the supposedly abstract apis.
This patch adds a flexible generic token array to supply
abstract transport-specific information through the abstract apis,
removing the network information from the abstract connect() op.
The SMTP minimal example is modified to use this new method to
pass the network information.
The abstract transport struct was opaque, but there are real
uses to override it in user code, so this patch also makes it
part of the public abi.
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://libwebsockets.org/pipermail/libwebsockets/2019-April/007937.html
thanks to Bruce Perens for noting it.
This doesn't change the intention or status of the CC0 files, they were
pure CC0 before (ie, public domain) and they are pure CC0 now. It just
gets rid of the (C) part at the top of the dedication which may be read
to be a bit contradictory since the purpose is to make it public domain.
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.
This is aimed at allowing a stride to optionally be
given for the parameter name array... this will allow
use of lws_struct metadata as the parameter name
array.
Also introduce the option to put all allocations in
an lwsac instead of via lws_mallocs.
info.protocols works okay, but it has an annoying problem... you have to know
the type for each protocol's pss at the top level of the code, so you can set
the struct lws_protocols user_data size for it.
Lws already rewrites the protocol tables for a vhost in the case of runtime
protocol plugins... this adapts that already-existing code slightly to give
a new optional way to declare the protocol array.
Everything works as before by default, but now info.protocols may be NULL and
info.pprotocols defined instead (if that's also NULL, as it will be if you
just ignore it after memsetting to 0, then it continues to fall back to the
dummy protocol handler as before).
info.pprotocols is a NULL-termined array of pointers to lws_protocol
structs. This can be composed at the top level of your code without knowing
anything except the name of the externally-defined lws_protocol struct(s).
The minimal example http-server-dynamic is changed to use the new scheme as
an example.
Until now lws only parses headers it knows at build-time from its
prebuilt lexical analyzer.
This adds an on-by-default cmake option and a couple of apis
to also store and query "custom", ie, unknown-to-lws headers.
A minimal example is also provided.
At the moment it only works on h1, h2 support needs improvements
to the hpack implementation.
Since it bloats ah memory usage compared to without it if custom
headers are present, the related code and ah footprint can be
disabled with the cmake option LWS_WITH_CUSTOM_HEADERS, but it's
on by default normally. ESP32 platform disables it.
https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/pull/1499
!!! WIP
This implements the "genec" layer wrapping mbedtls + openssl
ECDH support.
API tests are added for the parts that are implemented so far.
Stuff related to ec at all, like keys, are prefixed lws_genec_.
Stuff specific to ECDH are prefixed lws_genecdh_.
Although RSA can be used directly for signing / JWS
on large chunks of data since it's only operating on
the hash, when JWE support arrives, which allows bulk
encryption, it's going to be mandatory to support
secondary AES ciphers to use on the bulk data.
This adds generic support for all AES modes that OpenSSL
and mbedTLS have in common, works on both mbedTLS and
OpenSSL the same, and adds unit tests for each mode
in api-test-gencrypto, to run in CI.
Until now the JOSE pieces only had enough support for ACME.
This patch improves the JWK parsing to prepare for more
complete support and for adding JWE, genaes and genec in
later patches.
