You may use separate rx or tx handlers to neatly isolate different
rx or tx state handling, for example if the connection enters some
mode where you may send a variety of possibly large things, it can
be advantageous to have different code handling each of the
different things.
This allows you to change the rx, tx and / or state handlers to
different ones suitable for the user protocol state, if it's helpful.
With upcoming SS Server support, this has another use when SS
indicates that the underlying protocol upgraded, eg, http -> ws,
you may want to change the handlers for the different sort of
payloads expected after that, according to your user protocol.
- Add low level system message distibution framework
- Add support for local Secure Streams to participate using _lws_smd streamtype
- Add apit test and minimal example
- Add SS proxy support for _lws_smd
See minimal-secure-streams-smd README.md
Adapt the pt sul owner list to be an array, and define two different lists,
one that acts like before and is the default for existing users, and another
that has the ability to cooperate with systemwide suspend to restrict the
interval spent suspended so that it will wake in time for the earliest
thing on this wake-suspend sul list.
Clean the api a bit and add lws_sul_cancel() that only needs the sul as the
argument.
Add a flag for client creation info to indicate that this client connection
is important enough that, eg, validity checking it to detect silently dead
connections should go on the wake-suspend sul list. That flag is exposed in
secure streams policy so it can be added to a streamtype with
"swake_validity": true
Deprecate out the old vhost timer stuff that predates sul. Add a flag
LWS_WITH_DEPRECATED_THINGS in cmake so users can get it back temporarily
before it will be removed in a v4.2.
Adapt all remaining in-tree users of it to use explicit suls.
GCC -fanalyzer did find a real issue (unchecked malloc return)
but it mainly reported things that weren't true due to what
was happening outside of the particular compilation unit that
it could see.
The endpoint field in streamtype policy may continue to just be the
hostname, like "warmcat.com".
But it's also possible now to be a url-formatted string, like, eg,
"https://warmcat.com:444/mailman/listinfo"
If so (ie, if it contains a : ) then the decoded elements may override
if tls is enabled, the endpoint address, the port, and the url path.
No ABI change.
Secure Streams is an optional layer on top of lws that separates policy
like endpoint selection and tls cert validation into a device JSON
policy document.
Code that wants to open a client connection just specifies a streamtype name,
and no longer deals with details like the endpoint, the protocol (!) or anything
else other than payloads and optionally generic metadata; the JSON policy
contains all the details for each streamtype. h1, h2, ws and mqtt client
connections are supported.
Logical secure streams outlive any particular connection and supports "nailed-up"
connectivity regardless of underlying connection stability.