| Changelog |
| --------- |
| |
| v3.1.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| - CHANGE: REMOVED: lws_client_connect() and lws_client_connect_extended() |
| compatibility apis for lws_client_connect_via_info() have been marked as |
| deprecated for several versions and are now removed. Use |
| lws_client_connect_via_info() directly instead. |
| |
| - CHANGE: CMAKE: |
| - LWS_WITH_HTTP2: now defaults ON |
| |
| - CHANGE: Minimal examples updated to use Content Security Policy best |
| practices, using |
| `LWS_SERVER_OPTION_HTTP_HEADERS_SECURITY_BEST_PRACTICES_ENFORCE` vhost |
| option flag and disabling of inline style and scripts. A side-effect of |
| this is that buffers used to marshal headers have to be prepared to take |
| more content than previously... LWS_RECOMMENDED_MIN_HEADER_SPACE (2048 |
| currently) is available for user (and internal) use to logically tie the |
| buffer size to this usecase (and follow future increases). |
| |
| - NEW: CMAKE |
| - LWS_FOR_GITOHASHI: sets various cmake options suitable for gitohashi |
| - LWS_WITH_ASAN: for Linux, enable build with ASAN |
| |
| Don't forget LWS_WITH_DISTRO_RECOMMENDED, which enables a wide range of lws |
| options suitable for a distro build of the library. |
| |
| - NEW: lws threadpool - lightweight pool of pthreads integrated to lws wsi, with |
| all synchronization to event loop handled internally, queue for excess tasks |
| [threadpool docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/misc/threadpool) |
| [threadpool minimal example](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/ws-server/minimal-ws-server-threadpool) |
| Cmake config: `-DLWS_WITH_THREADPOOL=1` |
| |
| - NEW: libdbus support integrated on lws event loop |
| [lws dbus docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/roles/dbus) |
| [lws dbus client minimal examples](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/dbus-client) |
| [lws dbus server minimal examples](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/dbus-server) |
| Cmake config: `-DLWS_ROLE_DBUS=1` |
| |
| - NEW: lws allocated chunks (lwsac) - helpers for optimized mass allocation of small |
| objects inside a few larger malloc chunks... if you need to allocate a lot of |
| inter-related structs for a limited time, this removes per-struct allocation |
| library overhead completely and removes the need for any destruction handling |
| [lwsac docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/misc/lwsac) |
| [lwsac minimal example](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/api-tests/api-test-lwsac) |
| Cmake Config: `-DLWS_WITH_LWSAC=1` |
| |
| - NEW: lws tokenizer - helper api for robustly tokenizing your own strings without |
| allocating or adding complexity. Configurable by flags for common delimiter |
| sets and comma-separated-lists in the tokenizer. Detects and reports syntax |
| errors. |
| [lws_tokenize docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/include/libwebsockets/lws-tokenize.h) |
| [lws_tokenize minimal example / api test](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/api-tests/api-test-lws_tokenize) |
| |
| - NEW: lws full-text search - optimized trie generation, serialization, |
| autocomplete suggestion generation and instant global search support extensible |
| to huge corpuses of UTF-8 text while remaining super lightweight on resources. |
| [full-text search docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/misc/fts) |
| [full-text search minimal example / api test](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/api-tests/api-test-fts) |
| [demo](https://libwebsockets.org/ftsdemo/) |
| [demo sources](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/plugins/protocol_fulltext_demo.c) |
| Cmake config: `-DLWS_WITH_FTS=1 -DLWS_WITH_LWSAC=1` |
| |
| - NEW: gzip + brotli http server-side compression - h1 and h2 automatic advertising |
| of server compression and application to files with mimetypes "text/*", |
| "application/javascript" and "image/svg.xml". |
| Cmake config: `-DLWS_WITH_HTTP_STREAM_COMPRESSION=1`, `-DLWS_WITH_HTTP_BROTLI=1` |
| |
| - NEW: managed disk cache - API for managing a directory containing cached files |
| with hashed names, and automatic deletion of LRU files once the cache is |
| above a given limit. |
| [lws diskcache docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/include/libwebsockets/lws-diskcache.h) |
| Cmake config: `-DLWS_WITH_DISKCACHE=1` |
| |
| - NEW: http reverse proxy - lws mounts support proxying h1 or h2 requests to |
| a local or remote IP, or unix domain socket over h1. This allows microservice |
| type architectures where parts of the common URL space are actually handled |
| by external processes which may be remote or on the same machine. |
| [lws gitohashi serving](https://libwebsockets.org/git/) is handled this way. |
| CMake config: `-DLWS_WITH_HTTP_PROXY=1` |
| |
| - NEW: lws_buflist - internally several types of ad-hoc malloc'd buffer have |
| been replaced by a new, exported api `struct lws_buflist`. This allows |
| multiple buffers to be chained and drawn down in strict FIFO order. |
| |
| - NEW: In the case of h1 upgrade, the connection header is checked to contain |
| "upgrade". The vhost flag LWS_SERVER_OPTION_VHOST_UPG_STRICT_HOST_CHECK |
| also causes the Host: header to be confirmed to match the vhost name and |
| listen port. |
| |
| - NEW: If no 404 redirect for `lws_return_http_status()` is specified for the vhost, |
| the status page produced will try to bring in a stylesheet `/error.css`. This allows |
| you to produce styled 404 or other error pages with logos, graphics etc. See |
| https://libwebsockets.org/git/badrepo for an example of what you can do with it. |
| |
| v3.0.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| - CHANGE: Clients used to call LWS_CALLBACK_CLOSED same as servers... |
| LWS_CALLBACK_CLIENT_CLOSED has been introduced and is called for clients |
| now. |
| |
| - CHANGE: LWS_CALLBACK_CLIENT_CONNECTION_ERROR used to only be directed at |
| protocols[0]. However in many cases, the protocol to bind to was provided |
| at client connection info time and the wsi bound accordingly. In those |
| cases, CONNECTION_ERROR is directed at the bound protocol, not protcols[0] |
| any more. |
| |
| - CHANGE: CMAKE: the following cmake defaults have changed with this version: |
| |
| - LWS_WITH_ZIP_FOPS: now defaults OFF |
| - LWS_WITH_RANGES: now defaults OFF |
| - LWS_WITH_ZLIB: now defaults OFF |
| - LWS_WITHOUT_EXTENSIONS: now defaults ON |
| |
| - CHANGE: REMOVED: lws_alloc_vfs_file() (read a file to malloc buffer) |
| |
| - CHANGE: REMOVED: lws_read() (no longer useful outside of lws internals) |
| |
| - CHANGE: REMOVED: ESP8266... ESP32 is now within the same price range and much |
| more performant |
| |
| - CHANGE: soname bump... don't forget to `ldconfig` |
| |
| - NEW: all event libraries support "foreign" loop integration where lws itself |
| if just a temporary user of the loop unrelated to the actual loop lifecycle. |
| |
| See `minimal-http-server-eventlib-foreign` for example code demonstrating |
| this for all the event libraries. |
| |
| Internal loop in lws is also supported and demonstrated by |
| `minimal-http-server-eventlib`. |
| |
| - NEW: ws-over-h2 support. This is a new RFC-on-the-way supported by Chrome |
| and shortly firefox that allows ws connections to be multiplexed back to the |
| server on the same tcp + tls wrapper h2 connection that the html and scripts |
| came in on. This is hugely faster that discrete connections. |
| |
| - NEW: UDP socket adoption and related event callbacks |
| |
| - NEW: Multi-client connection binding, queuing and pipelining support. |
| |
| Lws detects multiple client connections to the same server and port, and |
| optimizes how it handles them according to the server type and provided |
| flags. For http/1.0, all occur with individual parallel connections. For |
| http/1.1, you can enable keepalive pipelining, so the connections occur |
| sequentially on a single network connection. For http/2, they all occur |
| as parallel streams within a single h2 network connection. |
| |
| See minimal-http-client-multi for example code. |
| |
| - NEW: High resolution timer API for wsi, get a callback on your wsi with |
| LWS_CALLBACK_TIMER, set and reset the timer with lws_set_timer_usecs(wsi, us) |
| Actual resolution depends on event backend. Works with all backends, poll, |
| libuv, libevent, and libev. |
| |
| - NEW: Protocols can arrange vhost-protocol instance specific callbacks with |
| second resolution using `lws_timed_callback_vh_protocol()` |
| |
| - NEW: ACME client plugin for self-service TLS certificates |
| |
| - NEW: RFC7517 JSON Web Keys RFC7638 JWK thumbprint, and RFC7515 JSON Web |
| signatures support |
| |
| - NEW: lws_cancel_service() now provides a generic way to synchronize events |
| from other threads, which appear as a LWS_CALLBACK_EVENT_WAIT_CANCELLED |
| callback on all protocols. This is compatible with all the event libraries. |
| |
| - NEW: support BSD poll() where changes to the poll wait while waiting are |
| undone. |
| |
| - NEW: Introduce generic hash, hmac and RSA apis that operate the same |
| regardless of OpenSSL or mbedTLS tls backend |
| |
| - NEW: Introduce X509 element query api that works the same regardless of |
| OpenSSL or mbedTLS tls backend |
| |
| - NEW: Introduce over 30 "minimal examples" in ./minimal-examples... these |
| replace most of the old test servers |
| |
| - test-echo -> minimal-ws-server-echo and minimal-ws-client-echo |
| |
| - test-server-libuv / -libevent / -libev -> |
| minimal-https-server-eventlib / -eventlib-foreign / -eventlib-demos |
| |
| - test-server-v2.0 -> folded into all the minimal servers |
| |
| - test-server direct http serving -> minimal-http-server-dynamic |
| |
| The minimal examples allow individual standalone build using their own |
| small CMakeLists.txt. |
| |
| - NEW: lws now detects any back-to-back writes that did not go through the |
| event loop inbetween and reports them. This will flag any possibility of |
| failure rather than wait until the problem happens. |
| |
| - NEW: CMake has LWS_WITH_DISTRO_RECOMMENDED to select features that are |
| appropriate for distros |
| |
| - NEW: Optional vhost URL `error_document_404` if given causes a redirect there |
| instead of serve the default 404 page. |
| |
| - NEW: lws_strncpy() wrapper guarantees NUL in copied string even if it was |
| truncated to fit. |
| |
| - NEW: for client connections, local protocol binding name can be separated |
| from the ws subprotocol name if needed, using .local_protocol_name |
| |
| - NEW: Automatic detection of time discontiguities |
| |
| - NEW: Applies TCP_USER_TIMEOUT for Linux tcp keepalive where available |
| |
| - QA: 1600 tests run on each commit in Travis CI, including almost all |
| Autobahn in client and server mode, various h2load tests, h2spec, attack.sh |
| the minimal example selftests and others. |
| |
| - QA: fix small warnings introduced on gcc8.x (eg, Fedora 28) |
| |
| - QA: Add most of -Wextra on gcc (-Wsign-compare, -Wignored-qualifiers, |
| -Wtype-limits, -Wuninitialized) |
| |
| - QA: clean out warnings on windows |
| |
| - QA: pass all 146 h2spec tests now on strict |
| |
| - QA: introduce 35 selftests that operate different minimal examples against |
| each other and confirm the results. |
| |
| - QA: LWS_WITH_MINIMAL_EXAMPLES allows mass build of all relevant minimal- |
| examples with the LWS build, for CI and to make all the example binaries |
| available from the lws build dir ./bin |
| |
| - REFACTOR: the lws source directory layout in ./lib has been radically |
| improved, and there are now README.md files in selected subdirs with extra |
| documentation of interest to people working on lws itself. |
| |
| - REFACTOR: pipelined transactions return to the event loop before starting the |
| next part. |
| |
| - REFACTOR: TLS: replace all TLS library constants with generic LWS ones and |
| adapt all the TLS library code to translate to these common ones. |
| |
| Isolated all the tls-related private stuff in `./lib/tls/private.h`, and all |
| the mbedTLS stuff in `./lib/tls/mbedtls` + openSSL stuff in |
| `./lib/tls/openssl` |
| |
| - REFACTOR: the various kinds of wsi possible with lws have been extracted |
| from the main code and isolated into "roles" in `./lib/roles` which |
| communicate with the core code via an ops struct. Everything related to |
| ah is migrated to the http role. |
| |
| wsi modes are eliminated and replaced by the ops pointer for the role the |
| wsi is performing. Generic states for wsi are available to control the |
| lifecycle using core code. |
| |
| Adding new "roles" is now much easier with the changes and ops struct to |
| plug into. |
| |
| - REFACTOR: reduce four different kinds of buffer management in lws into a |
| generic scatter-gather struct lws_buflist. |
| |
| - REFACTOR: close notifications go through event loop |
| |
| |
| v2.4.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| - HTTP/2 server support is now mature and usable! LWS_WITH_HTTP2=1 enables it. |
| Uses ALPN to serve HTTP/2, HTTP/1 and ws[s] connections all from the same |
| listen port seamlessly. (Requires ALPN-capable OpenSSL 1.1 or mbedTLS). |
| |
| - LWS_WITH_MBEDTLS=1 at CMake now builds and works against mbedTLS instead of |
| OpenSSL. Most things work identically, although on common targets where |
| OpenSSL has acceleration, mbedTLS is many times slower in operation. However |
| it is a lot smaller codewise. |
| |
| - Generic hash apis introduced that work the same on mbedTLS or OpenSSL backend |
| |
| - LWS_WITH_PEER_LIMITS tracks IPs across all vhosts and allows restrictions on |
| both the number of simultaneous connections and wsi in use for any single IP |
| |
| - lws_ring apis provide a generic single- or multi-tail ringbuffer... mirror |
| protocol now uses this. Features include ring elements may be sized to fit |
| structs in the ringbuffer, callback when no tail any longer needs an element |
| and it can be deleted, and zerocopy options to write new members directly |
| into the ringbuffer, and use the ringbuffer element by address too. |
| |
| - abstract ssh 2 server plugin included, with both plugin and standalone |
| demos provided. You can bind the plugin to a vhost and also serve full- |
| strength ssh from the vhost. IO from the ssh server is controlled by an |
| "ops" struct of callbacks for tx, rx, auth etc. |
| |
| - Many fixes, cleanups, source refactors and other improvements. |
| |
| |
| v2.3.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| - ESP32 OpenSSL support for client and server |
| |
| - ESP32 4 x WLAN credential slots may be configured |
| |
| - Libevent event loop support |
| |
| - SOCKS5 proxy support |
| |
| - lws_meta protocol for websocket connection multiplexing |
| |
| - lws_vhost_destroy() added... allows dynamic removal of listening |
| vhosts. Vhosts with shared listen sockets adopt the listen socket |
| automatically if the owner is destroyed. |
| |
| - IPv6 on Windows |
| |
| - Improved CGI handling suitable for general CGI scripting, eg, PHP |
| |
| - Convert even the "old style" test servers to use statically included |
| plugin sources |
| |
| - LWS_WITH_STATS cmake option dumps resource usage and timing information |
| every few seconds to debug log, including latency information about |
| delay from asking for writeable callback to getting it |
| |
| - Large (> 2GB) files may be served |
| |
| - LWS_WITH_HTTP_PROXY Cmake option adds proxying mounts |
| |
| - Workaround for libev build by disabling -Werror on the test app |
| |
| - HTTP2 support disabled since no way to serve websockets on it |
| |
| |
| v2.2.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| Major new features |
| |
| - A mount can be protected by Basic Auth... in lwsws it looks like this |
| |
| ``` |
| { |
| "mountpoint": "/basic-auth", |
| "origin": "file://_lws_ddir_/libwebsockets-test-server/private", |
| "basic-auth": "/var/www/balogins-private" |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| The text file named in `basic-auth` contains user:password information |
| one per line. |
| |
| See README.lwsws.md for more information. |
| |
| - RFC7233 RANGES support in lws server... both single and multipart. |
| This allows seeking for multimedia file serving and download resume. |
| It's enabled by default but can be disabled by CMake option. |
| |
| - On Linux, lwsws can reload configuration without dropping ongoing |
| connections, when sent a SIGHUP. The old configuration drops its |
| listen sockets so the new configuration can listen on them. |
| New connections connect to the server instance with the new |
| configuration. When all old connections eventually close, the old |
| instance automatically exits. This is equivalent to |
| `systemctl reload apache` |
| |
| - New `adopt` api allow adoption including SSL negotiation and |
| for raw sockets and file descriptors. |
| |
| - Chunked transfer encoding supported for client and server |
| |
| - Adaptations to allow operations inside OPTEE Secure World |
| |
| - ESP32 initial port - able to do all test server functions. See |
| README.build.md |
| |
| - Serving gzipped files from inside a ZIP file is supported... this |
| includes directly serving the gzipped content if the client |
| indicated it could accept it (ie, almost all browsers) saving |
| bandwidth and time. For clients that can't accept it, lws |
| automatically decompresses and serves the content in memory- |
| efficient chunks. Only a few hundred bytes of heap are needed |
| to serve any size file from inside the zip. See README.coding.md |
| |
| - RAW file descriptors may now be adopted into the lws event loop, |
| independent of event backend (including poll service). |
| See README.coding.md |
| |
| - RAW server socket descriptors may now be enabled on the vhost if |
| the first thing sent on the connection is not a valid http method. |
| The user code can associate these with a specific protocol per |
| vhost, and RAW-specific callbacks appear there for creation, rx, |
| writable and close. See libwebsockets-test-server-v2.0 for an example. |
| See README.coding.md |
| |
| - RAW client connections are now possible using the method "RAW". |
| After connection, the socket is associated to the protocol |
| named in the client connection info and RAW-specific callbacks |
| appear there for creation, rx, writable and close. |
| See libwebsockets-test-client (with raw://) for an example. |
| See README.coding.md |
| |
| |
| v2.1.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| Major new features |
| |
| - Support POST arguments, including multipart and file attachment |
| |
| - Move most of lwsws into lws, make the stub CC0 |
| |
| - Add loopback test plugin to confirm client ws / http coexistence |
| |
| - Integrate lwsws testing on Appveyor (ie, windows) |
| |
| - Introduce helpers for sql, urlencode and urldecode sanitation |
| |
| - Introduce LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP_BIND_PROTOCOL / DROP_PROTOCOL that |
| are compatible with http:/1.1 pipelining and different plugins |
| owning different parts of the URL space |
| |
| - lwsgs - Generic Sessions plugin supports serverside sessions, |
| cookies, hashed logins, forgot password etc |
| |
| - Added APIs for sending email to SMTP servers |
| |
| - Messageboard example plugin for lwsgs |
| |
| - Automatic PING sending at fixed intervals and close if no response |
| |
| - Change default header limit in ah to 4096 (from 1024) |
| |
| - Add SNI matching for wildcards if no specific wildcard vhost name match |
| |
| - Convert docs to Doxygen |
| |
| - ESP8266 support ^^ |
| |
| Fixes |
| ----- |
| |
| See git log v2.0.0.. |
| |
| |
| |
| v2.0.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| Summary |
| ------- |
| |
| - There are only api additions, the api is compatible with v1.7.x. But |
| there is necessarily an soname bump to 8. |
| |
| - If you are using lws client, you mainly need to be aware the option |
| LWS_SERVER_OPTION_DO_SSL_GLOBAL_INIT is needed at context-creation time |
| if you will use SSL. |
| |
| - If you are using lws for serving, the above is also true but there are |
| many new features to simplify your code (and life). There is a |
| summany online here |
| |
| https://libwebsockets.org/lws-2.0-new-features.html |
| |
| but basically the keywords are vhosts, mounts and plugins. You can now |
| do the web serving part from lws without any user callback code at all. |
| See ./test-server/test-server-v2.0.c for an example, it has no user |
| code for ws either since it uses the protocol plugins... that one C file |
| is all that is needed to do the whole test server function. |
| |
| You now have the option to use a small generic ws-capable webserver |
| "lwsws" and write your ws part as a plugin. That eliminates even |
| cut-and-pasting the test server code and offers more configurable |
| features like control over http cacheability in JSON. |
| |
| |
| Fixes |
| ----- |
| |
| These are already in 1.7.x series |
| |
| 1) MAJOR (Windows-only) fix assert firing |
| |
| 2) MAJOR http:/1.1 connections handled by lws_return_http_status() did not |
| get sent a content-length resulting in the link hanging until the peer closed |
| it. attack.sh updated to add a test for this. |
| |
| 3) MINOR An error about hdr struct in _lws_ws_related is corrected, it's not |
| known to affect anything until after it was fixed |
| |
| 4) MINOR During the close shutdown wait state introduced at v1.7, if something |
| requests callback on writeable for the socket it will busywait until the |
| socket closes |
| |
| 5) MAJOR Although the test server has done it for a few versions already, it |
| is now required for the user code to explicitly call |
| |
| if (lws_http_transaction_completed(wsi)) |
| return -1; |
| |
| when it finishes replying to a transaction in http. Previously the library |
| did it for you, but that disallowed large, long transfers with multiple |
| trips around the event loop (and cgi...). |
| |
| 6) MAJOR connections on ah waiting list that closed did not get removed from |
| the waiting list... |
| |
| 7) MAJOR since we added the ability to hold an ah across http keepalive |
| transactions where more headers had already arrived, we broke the ability |
| to tell if more headers had arrived. Result was if the browser didn't |
| close the keepalive, we retained ah for the lifetime of the keepalive, |
| using up the pool. |
| |
| 8) MAJOR windows-only-POLLHUP was not coming |
| |
| 9) Client should not send ext hdr if no exts |
| |
| Changes |
| ------- |
| |
| 1) MINOR test-server gained some new switches |
| |
| -C <file> use external SSL cert file |
| -K <file> use external SSL key file |
| -A <file> use external SSL CA cert file |
| |
| -u <uid> set effective uid |
| -g <gid> set effective gid |
| |
| together you can use them like this to have the test-server work with the |
| usual purchased SSL certs from an official CA. |
| |
| --ssl -C your.crt -K your.key -A your.cer -u 99 -g 99 |
| |
| 2) MINOR the OpenSSL magic to setup ECDH cipher usage is implemented in the |
| library, and the ciphers restricted to use ECDH only. |
| Using this, the lws test server can score an A at SSLLABS test |
| |
| 3) MINOR STS (SSL always) header is added to the test server if you use --ssl. With |
| that, we score A+ at SSLLABS test |
| |
| 4) MINOR daemonize function (disabled at cmake by default) is updated to work |
| with systemd |
| |
| 5) MINOR example systemd .service file now provided for test server |
| (not installed by default) |
| |
| 6) test server html is updated with tabs and a new live server monitoring |
| feature. Input sanitization added to the js. |
| |
| 7) client connections attempted when no ah is free no longer fail, they are |
| just deferred until an ah becomes available. |
| |
| 8) The test client pays attention to if you give it an http:/ or https:// |
| protocol string to its argument in URL format. If so, it stays in http[s] |
| client mode and doesn't upgrade to ws[s], allowing you to do generic http client |
| operations. Receiving transfer-encoding: chunked is supported. |
| |
| 9) If you enable -DLWS_WITH_HTTP_PROXY=1 at cmake, the test server has a |
| new URI path http://localhost:7681/proxytest If you visit here, a client |
| connection to http://example.com:80 is spawned, and the results piped on |
| to your original connection. |
| |
| 10) Also with LWS_WITH_HTTP_PROXY enabled at cmake, lws wants to link to an |
| additional library, "libhubbub". This allows lws to do html rewriting on the |
| fly, adjusting proxied urls in a lightweight and fast way. |
| |
| 11) There's a new context creation flag LWS_SERVER_OPTION_DO_SSL_GLOBAL_INIT, |
| this is included automatically if you give any other SSL-related option flag. |
| If you give no SSL-related option flag, nor this one directly, then even |
| though SSL support may be compiled in, it is never initialized nor used for the |
| whole lifetime of the lws context. |
| |
| Conversely in order to prepare the context to use SSL, even though, eg, you |
| are not listening on SSL but will use SSL client connections later, you must |
| give this flag explicitly to make sure SSL is initialized. |
| |
| |
| User API additions |
| ------------------ |
| |
| 1) MINOR APIBREAK There's a new member in struct lws_context_creation_info, ecdh_curve, |
| which lets you set the name of the ECDH curve OpenSSL should use. By |
| default (if you leave ecdh_curve NULL) it will use "prime256v1" |
| |
| 2) MINOR NEWAPI It was already possible to adopt a foreign socket that had not |
| been read from using lws_adopt_socket() since v1.7. Now you can adopt a |
| partially-used socket if you don't need SSL, by passing it what you read |
| so it can drain that before reading from the socket. |
| |
| LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN struct lws * |
| lws_adopt_socket_readbuf(struct lws_context *context, lws_sockfd_type accept_fd, |
| const char *readbuf, size_t len); |
| |
| 3) MINOR NEWAPI CGI type "network io" subprocess execution is now possible from |
| a simple api. |
| |
| LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int |
| lws_cgi(struct lws *wsi, char * const *exec_array, int script_uri_path_len, |
| int timeout_secs); |
| |
| LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int |
| lws_cgi_kill(struct lws *wsi); |
| |
| To use it, you must first set the cmake option |
| |
| $ cmake .. -DLWS_WITH_CGI=1 |
| |
| See test-server-http.c and test server path |
| |
| http://localhost:7681/cgitest |
| |
| stdin gets http body, you can test it with wget |
| |
| $ echo hello > hello.txt |
| $ wget http://localhost:7681/cgitest --post-file=hello.txt -O- --quiet |
| lwstest script |
| read="hello" |
| |
| The test script returns text/html table showing /proc/meminfo. But the cgi |
| support is complete enough to run cgit cgi. |
| |
| 4) There is a helper api for forming logging timestamps |
| |
| LWS_VISIBLE int |
| lwsl_timestamp(int level, char *p, int len) |
| |
| this generates this kind of timestamp for use as logging preamble |
| |
| lwsts[13116]: [2016/01/25 14:52:52:8386] NOTICE: Initial logging level 7 |
| |
| 5) struct lws_client_connect_info has a new member |
| |
| const char *method |
| |
| If it's NULL, then everything happens as before, lws_client_connect_via_info() |
| makes a ws or wss connection to the address given. |
| |
| If you set method to a valid http method like "GET", though, then this method |
| is used and the connection remains in http[s], it's not upgraded to ws[s]. |
| |
| So with this, you can perform http[s] client operations as well as ws[s] ones. |
| |
| There are 4 new related callbacks |
| |
| LWS_CALLBACK_ESTABLISHED_CLIENT_HTTP = 44, |
| LWS_CALLBACK_CLOSED_CLIENT_HTTP = 45, |
| LWS_CALLBACK_RECEIVE_CLIENT_HTTP = 46, |
| LWS_CALLBACK_COMPLETED_CLIENT_HTTP = 47, |
| |
| 6) struct lws_client_connect_info has a new member |
| |
| const char *parent_wsi |
| |
| if non-NULL, the client wsi is set to be a child of parent_wsi. This ensures |
| if parent_wsi closes, then the client child is closed just before. |
| |
| 7) If you're using SSL, there's a new context creation-time option flag |
| LWS_SERVER_OPTION_REDIRECT_HTTP_TO_HTTPS. If you give this, non-ssl |
| connections to the server listen port are accepted and receive a 301 |
| redirect to / on the same host and port using https:// |
| |
| 8) User code may set per-connection extension options now, using a new api |
| "lws_set_extension_option()". |
| |
| This should be called from the ESTABLISHED callback like this |
| |
| lws_set_extension_option(wsi, "permessage-deflate", |
| "rx_buf_size", "12"); /* 1 << 12 */ |
| |
| If the extension is not active (missing or not negotiated for the |
| connection, or extensions are disabled on the library) the call is |
| just returns -1. Otherwise the connection's extension has its |
| named option changed. |
| |
| The extension may decide to alter or disallow the change, in the |
| example above permessage-deflate restricts the size of his rx |
| output buffer also considering the protocol's rx_buf_size member. |
| |
| |
| New application lwsws |
| --------------------- |
| |
| A libwebsockets-based general webserver is built by default now, lwsws. |
| |
| It's configured by JSON, by default in |
| |
| /etc/lwsws/conf |
| |
| which contains global lws context settings like this |
| |
| { |
| "global": { |
| "uid": "99", |
| "gid": "99", |
| "interface": "eth0", |
| "count-threads": "1" |
| } |
| } |
| |
| /etc/lwsws/conf.d/* |
| |
| which contains zero or more files describing vhosts, like this |
| |
| { |
| "vhosts": [ |
| { "name": "warmcat.com", |
| "port": "443", |
| "host-ssl-key": "/etc/pki/tls/private/warmcat.com.key", |
| "host-ssl-cert": "/etc/pki/tls/certs/warmcat.com.crt", |
| "host-ssl-ca": "/etc/pki/tls/certs/warmcat.com.cer", |
| "mounts": [ |
| { "/": [ |
| { "home": "file:///var/www/warmcat.com" }, |
| { "default": "index.html" } |
| ] |
| } |
| ] |
| } |
| ] |
| } |
| |
| |
| |
| v1.7.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| Extension Changes |
| ----------------- |
| |
| 1) There is now a "permessage-deflate" / RFC7692 implementation. It's very |
| similar to "deflate-frame" we have offered for a long while; deflate-frame is |
| now provided as an alias of permessage-deflate. |
| |
| The main differences are that the new permessage-deflate implementation: |
| |
| - properly performs streaming respecting input and output buffer limits. The |
| old deflate-frame implementation could only work on complete deflate input |
| and produce complete inflate output for each frame. The new implementation |
| only mallocs buffers at initialization. |
| |
| - goes around the event loop after each input package is processed allowing |
| interleaved output processing. The RX flow control api can be used to |
| force compressed input processing to match the rate of compressed output |
| processing (test--echo shows an example of how to do this). |
| |
| - when being "deflate-frame" for compatibility he uses the same default zlib |
| settings as the old "deflate-frame", but instead of exponentially increasing |
| malloc allocations until the whole output will fit, he observes the default |
| input and output chunking buffer sizes of "permessage-deflate", that's |
| 1024 in and 1024 out at a time. |
| |
| 2) deflate-stream has been disabled for many versions (for over a year) and is |
| now removed. Browsers are now standardizing on "permessage-deflate" / RFC7692 |
| |
| 3) struct lws_extension is simplified, and lws extensions now have a public |
| api (their callback) for use in user code to compose extensions and options |
| the user code wants. lws_get_internal_exts() is deprecated but kept around |
| as a NOP. The changes allow one extension implementation to go by different |
| names and allows the user client code to control option offers per-ext. |
| |
| The test client and server are updated to use the new way. If you use |
| the old way it should still work, but extensions will be disabled until you |
| update your code. |
| |
| Extensions are now responsible for allocating and per-instance private struct |
| at instance construction time and freeing it when the instance is destroyed. |
| Not needing to know the size means the extension's struct can be opaque |
| to user code. |
| |
| |
| User api additions |
| ------------------ |
| |
| 1) The info struct gained three new members |
| |
| - max_http_header_data: 0 for default (1024) or set the maximum amount of known |
| http header payload that lws can deal with. Payload in unknown http |
| headers is dropped silently. If for some reason you need to send huge |
| cookies or other HTTP-level headers, you can now increase this at context- |
| creation time. |
| |
| - max_http_header_pool: 0 for default (16) or set the maximum amount of http |
| headers that can be tracked by lws in this context. For the server, if |
| the header pool is completely in use then accepts on the listen socket |
| are disabled until one becomes free. For the client, if you simultaneously |
| have pending connects for more than this number of client connections, |
| additional connects will fail until some of the pending connections timeout |
| or complete. |
| |
| - timeout_secs: 0 for default (currently 20s), or set the library's |
| network activity timeout to the given number of seconds |
| |
| HTTP header processing in lws only exists until just after the first main |
| callback after the HTTP handshake... for ws connections that is ESTABLISHED and |
| for HTTP connections the HTTP callback. |
| |
| So these settings are not related to the maximum number of simultaneous |
| connections, but the number of HTTP handshakes that may be expected or ongoing, |
| or have just completed, at one time. The reason it's useful is it changes the |
| memory allocation for header processing to be one-time at context creation |
| instead of every time there is a new connection, and gives you control over |
| the peak allocation. |
| |
| Setting max_http_header_pool to 1 is fine it will just queue incoming |
| connections before the accept as necessary, you can still have as many |
| simultaneous post-header connections as you like. Since the http header |
| processing is completed and the allocation released after ESTABLISHED or the |
| HTTP callback, even with a pool of 1 many connections can be handled rapidly. |
| |
| 2) There is a new callback that allows the user code to get acccess to the |
| optional close code + aux data that may have been sent by the peer. |
| |
| LWS_CALLBACK_WS_PEER_INITIATED_CLOSE: |
| The peer has sent an unsolicited Close WS packet. @in and |
| @len are the optional close code (first 2 bytes, network |
| order) and the optional additional information which is not |
| defined in the standard, and may be a string or non-human- |
| readble data. |
| If you return 0 lws will echo the close and then close the |
| connection. If you return nonzero lws will just close the |
| connection. |
| |
| As usual not handling it does the right thing, if you're not interested in it |
| just ignore it. |
| |
| The test server has "open and close" testing buttons at the bottom, if you |
| open and close that connection, on close it will send a close code 3000 decimal |
| and the string "Bye!" as the aux data. |
| |
| The test server dumb-increment callback handles this callback reason and prints |
| |
| lwsts[15714]: LWS_CALLBACK_WS_PEER_INITIATED_CLOSE: len 6 |
| lwsts[15714]: 0: 0x0B |
| lwsts[15714]: 1: 0xB8 |
| lwsts[15714]: 2: 0x42 |
| lwsts[15714]: 3: 0x79 |
| lwsts[15714]: 4: 0x65 |
| lwsts[15714]: 5: 0x21 |
| |
| 3) There is a new API to allow the user code to control the content of the |
| close frame sent when about to return nonzero from the user callback to |
| indicate the connection should close. |
| |
| /** |
| * lws_close_reason - Set reason and aux data to send with Close packet |
| * If you are going to return nonzero from the callback |
| * requesting the connection to close, you can optionally |
| * call this to set the reason the peer will be told if |
| * possible. |
| * |
| * @wsi: The websocket connection to set the close reason on |
| * @status: A valid close status from websocket standard |
| * @buf: NULL or buffer containing up to 124 bytes of auxiliary data |
| * @len: Length of data in @buf to send |
| */ |
| LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN void |
| lws_close_reason(struct lws *wsi, enum lws_close_status status, |
| unsigned char *buf, size_t len); |
| |
| An extra button is added to the "open and close" test server page that requests |
| that the test server close the connection from his end. |
| |
| The test server code will do so by |
| |
| lws_close_reason(wsi, LWS_CLOSE_STATUS_GOINGAWAY, |
| (unsigned char *)"seeya", 5); |
| return -1; |
| |
| The browser shows the close code and reason he received |
| |
| websocket connection CLOSED, code: 1001, reason: seeya |
| |
| 4) There's a new context creation time option flag |
| |
| LWS_SERVER_OPTION_VALIDATE_UTF8 |
| |
| if you set it in info->options, then TEXT and CLOSE frames will get checked to |
| confirm that they contain valid UTF-8. If they don't, the connection will get |
| closed by lws. |
| |
| 5) ECDH Certs are now supported. Enable the CMake option |
| |
| cmake .. -DLWS_SSL_SERVER_WITH_ECDH_CERT=1 |
| |
| **and** the info->options flag |
| |
| LWS_SERVER_OPTION_SSL_ECDH |
| |
| to build in support and select it at runtime. |
| |
| 6) There's a new api lws_parse_uri() that simplifies chopping up |
| https://xxx:yyy/zzz uris into parts nicely. The test client now uses this |
| to allow proper uris as well as the old address style. |
| |
| 7) SMP support is integrated into LWS without any internal threading. It's |
| very simple to use, libwebsockets-test-server-pthread shows how to do it, |
| use -j <n> argument there to control the number of service threads up to 32. |
| |
| Two new members are added to the info struct |
| |
| unsigned int count_threads; |
| unsigned int fd_limit_per_thread; |
| |
| leave them at the default 0 to get the normal singlethreaded service loop. |
| |
| Set count_threads to n to tell lws you will have n simultaneous service threads |
| operating on the context. |
| |
| There is still a single listen socket on one port, no matter how many |
| service threads. |
| |
| When a connection is made, it is accepted by the service thread with the least |
| connections active to perform load balancing. |
| |
| The user code is responsible for spawning n threads running the service loop |
| associated to a specific tsi (Thread Service Index, 0 .. n - 1). See |
| the libwebsockets-test-server-pthread for how to do. |
| |
| If you leave fd_limit_per_thread at 0, then the process limit of fds is shared |
| between the service threads; if you process was allowed 1024 fds overall then |
| each thread is limited to 1024 / n. |
| |
| You can set fd_limit_per_thread to a nonzero number to control this manually, eg |
| the overall supported fd limit is less than the process allowance. |
| |
| You can control the context basic data allocation for multithreading from Cmake |
| using -DLWS_MAX_SMP=, if not given it's set to 32. The serv_buf allocation |
| for the threads (currently 4096) is made at runtime only for active threads. |
| |
| Because lws will limit the requested number of actual threads supported |
| according to LWS_MAX_SMP, there is an api lws_get_count_threads(context) to |
| discover how many threads were actually allowed when the context was created. |
| |
| It's required to implement locking in the user code in the same way that |
| libwebsockets-test-server-pthread does it, for the FD locking callbacks. |
| |
| If LWS_MAX_SMP=1, then there is no code related to pthreads compiled in the |
| library. If more than 1, a small amount of pthread mutex code is built into |
| the library. |
| |
| 8) New API |
| |
| LWS_VISIBLE struct lws * |
| lws_adopt_socket(struct lws_context *context, lws_sockfd_type accept_fd) |
| |
| allows foreign sockets accepted by non-lws code to be adopted by lws as if they |
| had just been accepted by lws' own listen socket. |
| |
| 9) X-Real-IP: header has been added as WSI_TOKEN_HTTP_X_REAL_IP |
| |
| 10) Libuv support is added, there are new related user apis |
| |
| typedef void (lws_uv_signal_cb_t)(uv_loop_t *l, uv_signal_t *w, int revents); |
| |
| LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int |
| lws_uv_sigint_cfg(struct lws_context *context, int use_uv_sigint, |
| lws_uv_signal_cb_t *cb); |
| |
| LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int |
| lws_uv_initloop(struct lws_context *context, uv_loop_t *loop, int tsi); |
| |
| LWS_VISIBLE void |
| lws_uv_sigint_cb(uv_loop_t *loop, uv_signal_t *watcher, int revents); |
| |
| and CMAKE option |
| |
| LWS_WITH_LIBUV |
| |
| |
| User api changes |
| ---------------- |
| |
| 1) LWS_SEND_BUFFER_POST_PADDING is now 0 and deprecated. You can remove it; if |
| you still use it, obviously it does nothing. Old binary code with nonzero |
| LWS_SEND_BUFFER_POST_PADDING is perfectly compatible, the old code just |
| allocated a buffer bigger than the library is going to use. |
| |
| The example apps no longer use LWS_SEND_BUFFER_POST_PADDING. |
| |
| The only path who made use of it was sending with LWS_WRITE_CLOSE ---> |
| |
| 2) Because of lws_close_reason() formalizing handling close frames, |
| LWS_WRITE_CLOSE is removed from libwebsockets.h. It was only of use to send |
| close frames...close frame content should be managed using lws_close_reason() |
| now. |
| |
| 3) We check for invalid CLOSE codes and complain about protocol violation in |
| our close code. But it changes little since we were in the middle of closing |
| anyway. |
| |
| 4) zero-length RX frames and zero length TX frames are now allowed. |
| |
| 5) Pings and close used to be limited to 124 bytes, the correct limit is 125 |
| so that is now also allowed. |
| |
| 6) LWS_PRE is provided as a synonym for LWS_SEND_BUFFER_PRE_PADDING, either is |
| valid to use now. |
| |
| 7) There's generic support for RFC7462 style extension options built into the |
| library now. As a consequence, a field "options" is added to lws_extension. |
| It can be NULL if there are no options on the extension. Extension internal |
| info is part of the public abi because extensions may be implemented outside |
| the library. |
| |
| 8) WSI_TOKEN_PROXY enum was accidentally defined to collide with another token |
| of value 73. That's now corrected and WSI_TOKEN_PROXY moved to his own place at |
| 77. |
| |
| 9) With the addition of libuv support, libev is not the only event loop |
| library in town and his api names must be elaborated with _ev_ |
| |
| Callback typedef: lws_signal_cb ---> lws_ev_signal_cb_t |
| lws_sigint_cfg --> lws_ev_sigint_cfg |
| lws_initloop --> lws_ev_initloop |
| lws_sigint_cb --> lws_ev_sigint_cb |
| |
| 10) Libev support is made compatible with multithreaded service, |
| lws_ev_initloop (was lws_initloop) gets an extra argument for the |
| thread service index (use 0 if you will just have 1 service thread). |
| |
| LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int |
| lws_ev_initloop(struct lws_context *context, ev_loop_t *loop, int tsi); |
| |
| |
| (for earlier changelogs, see the tagged releases) |