There are two kinds of reaason to call lws_header_table_reset(), one is we are reallocating
a destroyed ah to another wsi, and the other is we are moving to the next pipelined header set
still on the same wsi, and we need a "weaker" reset that only clears down the state related
to the header parsing, not everything about the ah context including the ah rx buffer.
This patch moves the ah rxbuffer rxpos and rxlen resetting out of lws_header_table_reset() and to
be the responsibility of the caller. Callers who are moving the ah to another wsi are
patched to deal with resetting rxpos and rxlen and lws_http_transaction_completed() who only
resets the ah when moving to the next pipelined headers, no longer wrongly clears the ah rxbuf.
https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/issues/638
Thanks to Fabrice Gilot for reporting the problem that led to uncovering this.
Due to a misunderstanding of the return value of snprintf (it is not truncated according
to the max size passed in) in several places relying on snprintf to truncate the length
overflows are possible.
This patch wraps snprintf with a new lws_snprintf() which does truncate its length to allow
the buffer limiting scheme to work properly.
All users should update with these fixes.
RFC2616 only says that any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body
SHOULD include a Content-Type header field defining the media type of
that body.
RFC2119 defines SHOULD as: This word mean that there may exist valid
reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but
the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before
choosing a different course.
AG: this isn't an oversight, it's paranoia about sending out /etc/passwd
or /etc/shadow accidentally.
I agree it should be allowed if people really want to override it. But
the default should remain like it is I think.
I adapted the patch to allow the extra mimetype "*": "" to be declared on
a mount, as a wildcard match that serves the file without a Content-Type.
This adds a new member to the context creation info struct "ws_ping_pong_interval".
If nonzero, it sets the number of seconds that established ws connections are
allowed to be idle before a PING is forced to be sent. If zero (the default) then
tracking of idle connection is disabled for backwards compatibility.
Timeouts cover both the period between decision to send the ping and it being
sent (because it needs the socket to become writeable), and the period between
the ping being sent and the PONG coming back.
INFO debug logs are issues when the timeout stuff is operating.
You can test the server side by running the test server hacked to set ws_ping_pong_interval
and debug log mask of 15. Both the mirror protocol and the server-status protocol are
idle if nothing is happening and will trigger the PING / PONG testing. (You can also
test using lwsws and /etc/lwsws/conf with "ws-pingpong-secs": "20" in the global section)
For client, run the test client with -n -P 20 for 20s interval. -n stops the test client
writing using the mirror protocol, so it will be idle and trigger the PING / PONGs.
The timeout interval may be up to +10s late, as lws checks for affected connections every
10s.
