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71) MAJOR (Windows-only) fix assert firing
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92) MAJOR http:/1.1 connections handled by lws_return_http_status() did not
10get sent a content-length resulting in the link hanging until the peer closed
11it. attack.sh updated to add a test for this.
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13Changes
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161) MINOR test-server gained some new switches
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18 -C <file> use external SSL cert file
19 -K <file> use external SSL key file
20 -A <file> use external SSL CA cert file
21
22 -u <uid> set effective uid
23 -g <gid> set effective gid
24
25together you can use them like this to have the test-server work with the
26usual purchased SSL certs from an official CA.
27
28 --ssl -C your.crt -K your.key -A your.cer -u 99 -g 99
29
302) MINOR the OpenSSL magic to setup ECDH cipher usage is implemented in the
31library, and the ciphers restricted to use ECDH only.
32Using this, the lws test server can score an A at SSLLABS test
33
343) MINOR STS (SSL always) header is added to the test server if you use --ssl. With
35that, we score A+ at SSLLABS test
36
374) MINOR daemonize function (disabled at cmake by default) is updated to work
38with systemd
39
405) MINOR example systemd .service file now provided for test server
41(not installed by default)
42
Andy Greend7fddad2016-02-18 20:36:55 +080043User API additions
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45
Andy Green0c3cc2e2016-02-20 09:12:52 +0800461) MINOR APIBREAK There's a new member in struct lws_context_creation_info, ecdh_curve,
Andy Greend7fddad2016-02-18 20:36:55 +080047which lets you set the name of the ECDH curve OpenSSL should use. By
48default (if you leave ecdh_curve NULL) it will use "prime256v1"
49
50
Andy Green0c3cc2e2016-02-20 09:12:52 +080051
Andy Green9c60ed92016-02-16 12:32:18 +080052v1.7.0
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54
Andy Green67112662016-01-11 11:34:01 +080055Extension Changes
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57
581) There is now a "permessage-deflate" / RFC7692 implementation. It's very
59similar to "deflate-frame" we have offered for a long while; deflate-frame is
60now provided as an alias of permessage-deflate.
61
62The main differences are that the new permessage-deflate implementation:
63
64 - properly performs streaming respecting input and output buffer limits. The
65 old deflate-frame implementation could only work on complete deflate input
66 and produce complete inflate output for each frame. The new implementation
67 only mallocs buffers at initialization.
68
69 - goes around the event loop after each input package is processed allowing
70 interleaved output processing. The RX flow control api can be used to
71 force compressed input processing to match the rate of compressed output
72 processing (test--echo shows an example of how to do this).
73
74 - when being "deflate-frame" for compatibility he uses the same default zlib
75 settings as the old "deflate-frame", but instead of exponentially increasing
76 malloc allocations until the whole output will fit, he observes the default
77 input and output chunking buffer sizes of "permessage-deflate", that's
78 1024 in and 1024 out at a time.
79
802) deflate-stream has been disabled for many versions (for over a year) and is
81now removed. Browsers are now standardizing on "permessage-deflate" / RFC7692
82
833) struct lws_extension is simplified, and lws extensions now have a public
84api (their callback) for use in user code to compose extensions and options
85the user code wants. lws_get_internal_exts() is deprecated but kept around
86as a NOP. The changes allow one extension implementation to go by different
87names and allows the user client code to control option offers per-ext.
88
89The test client and server are updated to use the new way. If you use
90the old way it should still work, but extensions will be disabled until you
91update your code.
92
93Extensions are now responsible for allocating and per-instance private struct
94at instance construction time and freeing it when the instance is destroyed.
95Not needing to know the size means the extension's struct can be opaque
96to user code.
97
98
Andy Green3df58002015-12-25 12:44:12 +080099User api additions
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101
Andy Green200a6a22016-02-15 20:36:02 +08001021) The info struct gained three new members
Andy Green3df58002015-12-25 12:44:12 +0800103
104 - max_http_header_data: 0 for default (1024) or set the maximum amount of known
105 http header payload that lws can deal with. Payload in unknown http
106 headers is dropped silently. If for some reason you need to send huge
107 cookies or other HTTP-level headers, you can now increase this at context-
108 creation time.
109
110 - max_http_header_pool: 0 for default (16) or set the maximum amount of http
111 headers that can be tracked by lws in this context. For the server, if
112 the header pool is completely in use then accepts on the listen socket
113 are disabled until one becomes free. For the client, if you simultaneously
114 have pending connects for more than this number of client connections,
115 additional connects will fail until some of the pending connections timeout
116 or complete.
117
Andy Green200a6a22016-02-15 20:36:02 +0800118 - timeout_secs: 0 for default (currently 20s), or set the library's
119 network activity timeout to the given number of seconds
120
Andy Green3df58002015-12-25 12:44:12 +0800121HTTP header processing in lws only exists until just after the first main
122callback after the HTTP handshake... for ws connections that is ESTABLISHED and
123for HTTP connections the HTTP callback.
124
125So these settings are not related to the maximum number of simultaneous
Andy Green3246ebb2015-12-26 12:03:06 +0800126connections, but the number of HTTP handshakes that may be expected or ongoing,
Andy Green3df58002015-12-25 12:44:12 +0800127or have just completed, at one time. The reason it's useful is it changes the
128memory allocation for header processing to be one-time at context creation
129instead of every time there is a new connection, and gives you control over
130the peak allocation.
131
132Setting max_http_header_pool to 1 is fine it will just queue incoming
133connections before the accept as necessary, you can still have as many
Andy Green5b85e392015-12-26 13:23:11 +0800134simultaneous post-header connections as you like. Since the http header
135processing is completed and the allocation released after ESTABLISHED or the
136HTTP callback, even with a pool of 1 many connections can be handled rapidly.
137
Andy Green066a7a12015-12-26 15:47:06 +08001382) There is a new callback that allows the user code to get acccess to the
139optional close code + aux data that may have been sent by the peer.
140
141LWS_CALLBACK_WS_PEER_INITIATED_CLOSE:
142 The peer has sent an unsolicited Close WS packet. @in and
143 @len are the optional close code (first 2 bytes, network
144 order) and the optional additional information which is not
145 defined in the standard, and may be a string or non-human-
146 readble data.
147 If you return 0 lws will echo the close and then close the
Andy Green67112662016-01-11 11:34:01 +0800148 connection. If you return nonzero lws will just close the
149 connection.
Andy Green066a7a12015-12-26 15:47:06 +0800150
151As usual not handling it does the right thing, if you're not interested in it
152just ignore it.
153
154The test server has "open and close" testing buttons at the bottom, if you
155open and close that connection, on close it will send a close code 3000 decimal
156and the string "Bye!" as the aux data.
157
158The test server dumb-increment callback handles this callback reason and prints
159
160lwsts[15714]: LWS_CALLBACK_WS_PEER_INITIATED_CLOSE: len 6
161lwsts[15714]: 0: 0x0B
162lwsts[15714]: 1: 0xB8
163lwsts[15714]: 2: 0x42
164lwsts[15714]: 3: 0x79
165lwsts[15714]: 4: 0x65
166lwsts[15714]: 5: 0x21
167
Andy Green1fb95e82015-12-26 17:20:34 +08001683) There is a new API to allow the user code to control the content of the
169close frame sent when about to return nonzero from the user callback to
170indicate the connection should close.
171
172/**
173 * lws_close_reason - Set reason and aux data to send with Close packet
174 * If you are going to return nonzero from the callback
175 * requesting the connection to close, you can optionally
176 * call this to set the reason the peer will be told if
177 * possible.
178 *
179 * @wsi: The websocket connection to set the close reason on
180 * @status: A valid close status from websocket standard
181 * @buf: NULL or buffer containing up to 124 bytes of auxiliary data
182 * @len: Length of data in @buf to send
183 */
184LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN void
185lws_close_reason(struct lws *wsi, enum lws_close_status status,
186 unsigned char *buf, size_t len);
187
188An extra button is added to the "open and close" test server page that requests
189that the test server close the connection from his end.
190
191The test server code will do so by
192
193 lws_close_reason(wsi, LWS_CLOSE_STATUS_GOINGAWAY,
194 (unsigned char *)"seeya", 5);
195 return -1;
196
197The browser shows the close code and reason he received
198
199websocket connection CLOSED, code: 1001, reason: seeya
200
Vijay Khurdiyae73d4462016-01-15 16:21:51 +08002014) There's a new context creation time option flag
Andy Green44a7f652015-12-29 11:20:09 +0800202
203LWS_SERVER_OPTION_VALIDATE_UTF8
204
205if you set it in info->options, then TEXT and CLOSE frames will get checked to
206confirm that they contain valid UTF-8. If they don't, the connection will get
207closed by lws.
208
Vijay Khurdiyae73d4462016-01-15 16:21:51 +08002095) ECDH Certs are now supported. Enable the CMake option
210
211cmake .. -DLWS_SSL_SERVER_WITH_ECDH_CERT=1
212
213**and** the info->options flag
214
Andy Greenff696482016-02-17 07:46:27 +0800215LWS_SERVER_OPTION_SSL_ECDH
Vijay Khurdiyae73d4462016-01-15 16:21:51 +0800216
217to build in support and select it at runtime.
218
Andy Greenff696482016-02-17 07:46:27 +08002196) There's a new api lws_parse_uri() that simplifies chopping up
Andy Green809d69a2016-01-14 11:37:56 +0800220https://xxx:yyy/zzz uris into parts nicely. The test client now uses this
Andy Greend3a55052016-01-19 03:34:24 +0800221to allow proper uris as well as the old address style.
222
2237) SMP support is integrated into LWS without any internal threading. It's
224very simple to use, libwebsockets-test-server-pthread shows how to do it,
225use -j <n> argument there to control the number of service threads up to 32.
226
227Two new members are added to the info struct
228
229 unsigned int count_threads;
230 unsigned int fd_limit_per_thread;
231
232leave them at the default 0 to get the normal singlethreaded service loop.
233
234Set count_threads to n to tell lws you will have n simultaneous service threads
235operating on the context.
236
237There is still a single listen socket on one port, no matter how many
238service threads.
239
240When a connection is made, it is accepted by the service thread with the least
241connections active to perform load balancing.
242
243The user code is responsible for spawning n threads running the service loop
244associated to a specific tsi (Thread Service Index, 0 .. n - 1). See
245the libwebsockets-test-server-pthread for how to do.
246
247If you leave fd_limit_per_thread at 0, then the process limit of fds is shared
248between the service threads; if you process was allowed 1024 fds overall then
249each thread is limited to 1024 / n.
250
251You can set fd_limit_per_thread to a nonzero number to control this manually, eg
252the overall supported fd limit is less than the process allowance.
253
254You can control the context basic data allocation for multithreading from Cmake
255using -DLWS_MAX_SMP=, if not given it's set to 32. The serv_buf allocation
256for the threads (currently 4096) is made at runtime only for active threads.
257
258Because lws will limit the requested number of actual threads supported
259according to LWS_MAX_SMP, there is an api lws_get_count_threads(context) to
260discover how many threads were actually allowed when the context was created.
261
262It's required to implement locking in the user code in the same way that
263libwebsockets-test-server-pthread does it, for the FD locking callbacks.
264
Andy Greenba119e92016-01-26 21:40:32 +0800265If LWS_MAX_SMP=1, then there is no code related to pthreads compiled in the
266library. If more than 1, a small amount of pthread mutex code is built into
267the library.
Andy Green809d69a2016-01-14 11:37:56 +0800268
Andy Greenba119e92016-01-26 21:40:32 +08002698) New API
270
271LWS_VISIBLE struct lws *
272lws_adopt_socket(struct lws_context *context, lws_sockfd_type accept_fd)
273
274allows foreign sockets accepted by non-lws code to be adopted by lws as if they
275had just been accepted by lws' own listen socket.
Andy Green3df58002015-12-25 12:44:12 +0800276
Danomi Czaski4e9c7f32016-01-28 09:40:53 +08002779) X-Real-IP: header has been added as WSI_TOKEN_HTTP_X_REAL_IP
278
Andy Green86ed65f2016-02-14 09:27:41 +080027910) Libuv support is added, there are new related user apis
280
281typedef void (lws_uv_signal_cb_t)(uv_loop_t *l, uv_signal_t *w, int revents);
282
283LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
284lws_uv_sigint_cfg(struct lws_context *context, int use_uv_sigint,
285 lws_uv_signal_cb_t *cb);
286
287LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
288lws_uv_initloop(struct lws_context *context, uv_loop_t *loop, int tsi);
289
290LWS_VISIBLE void
291lws_uv_sigint_cb(uv_loop_t *loop, uv_signal_t *watcher, int revents);
292
293and CMAKE option
294
295LWS_WITH_LIBUV
296
Danomi Czaski4e9c7f32016-01-28 09:40:53 +0800297
Andy Green3246ebb2015-12-26 12:03:06 +0800298User api changes
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300
3011) LWS_SEND_BUFFER_POST_PADDING is now 0 and deprecated. You can remove it; if
302you still use it, obviously it does nothing. Old binary code with nonzero
303LWS_SEND_BUFFER_POST_PADDING is perfectly compatible, the old code just
Andy Green5b85e392015-12-26 13:23:11 +0800304allocated a buffer bigger than the library is going to use.
Andy Green3246ebb2015-12-26 12:03:06 +0800305
Andy Green5b85e392015-12-26 13:23:11 +0800306The example apps no longer use LWS_SEND_BUFFER_POST_PADDING.
Andy Green3246ebb2015-12-26 12:03:06 +0800307
Andy Green4e2ac762015-12-26 20:26:11 +0800308The only path who made use of it was sending with LWS_WRITE_CLOSE --->
Andy Green3246ebb2015-12-26 12:03:06 +0800309
Andy Green1fb95e82015-12-26 17:20:34 +08003102) Because of lws_close_reason() formalizing handling close frames,
311LWS_WRITE_CLOSE is removed from libwebsockets.h. It was only of use to send
312close frames...close frame content should be managed using lws_close_reason()
313now.
314
Andy Green44a7f652015-12-29 11:20:09 +08003153) We check for invalid CLOSE codes and complain about protocol violation in
316our close code. But it changes little since we were in the middle of closing
317anyway.
318
3194) zero-length RX frames and zero length TX frames are now allowed.
320
3215) Pings and close used to be limited to 124 bytes, the correct limit is 125
322so that is now also allowed.
Andy Green3246ebb2015-12-26 12:03:06 +0800323
Steffen Vogelf9267172016-02-09 07:19:15 +01003246) LWS_PRE is provided as a synonym for LWS_SEND_BUFFER_PRE_PADDING, either is
Andy Green67112662016-01-11 11:34:01 +0800325valid to use now.
326
3277) There's generic support for RFC7462 style extension options built into the
328library now. As a consequence, a field "options" is added to lws_extension.
329It can be NULL if there are no options on the extension. Extension internal
330info is part of the public abi because extensions may be implemented outside
331the library.
332
Danomi Czaski4e9c7f32016-01-28 09:40:53 +08003338) WSI_TOKEN_PROXY enum was accidentally defined to collide with another token
334of value 73. That's now corrected and WSI_TOKEN_PROXY moved to his own place at
33577.
336
Andy Green86ed65f2016-02-14 09:27:41 +08003379) With the addition of libuv support, libev is not the only event loop
338library in town and his api names must be elaborated with _ev_
339
340 Callback typedef: lws_signal_cb ---> lws_ev_signal_cb_t
341 lws_sigint_cfg --> lws_ev_sigint_cfg
342 lws_initloop --> lws_ev_initloop
343 lws_sigint_cb --> lws_ev_sigint_cb
344
34510) Libev support is made compatible with multithreaded service,
346lws_ev_initloop (was lws_initloop) gets an extra argument for the
347thread service index (use 0 if you will just have 1 service thread).
348
349LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
Andy Greenff696482016-02-17 07:46:27 +0800350lws_ev_initloop(struct lws_context *context, ev_loop_t *loop, int tsi);
Andy Green86ed65f2016-02-14 09:27:41 +0800351
Andy Green3df58002015-12-25 12:44:12 +0800352
Andy Green9e8d1482015-12-18 11:01:03 +0800353v1.6.0-chrome48-firefox42
354=======================
355
356Major API improvements
357----------------------
358
359v1.6.0 has many cleanups and improvements in the API. Although at first it
360looks pretty drastic, user code will only need four actions to update it.
361
362 - Do the three search/replaces in your user code, /libwebsocket_/lws_/,
363 /libwebsockets_/lws_/, and /struct\ libwebsocket/struct\ lws/
364
365 - Remove the context parameter from your user callbacks
366
367 - Remove context as the first parameter from the "Eleven APIS" listed in the
368 User Api Changes section
369
370 - Add lws_get_context(wsi) as the first parameter on the "Three APIS" listed
371 in the User Api Changes section, and anywhere else you still need context
372
373That's it... generally only a handful of the 14 affected APIs are actually in
374use in your user code and you can find them quickest by compiling and visiting
375the errors each in turn. And the end results are much cleaner, more
376predictable and maintainable.
377
378
Andy Green4e442b72015-12-10 07:58:58 +0800379User api additions
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381
Andy Green3f628702015-12-14 07:16:32 +08003821) lws now exposes his internal platform file abstraction in a way that can be
Andy Green4e442b72015-12-10 07:58:58 +0800383both used by user code to make it platform-agnostic, and be overridden or
384subclassed by user code. This allows things like handling the URI "directory
385space" as a virtual filesystem that may or may not be backed by a regular
386filesystem. One example use is serving files from inside large compressed
387archive storage without having to unpack anything except the file being
388requested.
389
390The test server shows how to use it, basically the platform-specific part of
391lws prepares a file operations structure that lives in the lws context.
392
Andy Green3f599962015-12-14 07:21:42 +0800393Helpers are provided to also leverage these platform-independent file handling
394apis
Andy Green4e442b72015-12-10 07:58:58 +0800395
396static inline lws_filefd_type
Andy Green3f599962015-12-14 07:21:42 +0800397lws_plat_file_open(struct lws *wsi, const char *filename,
Andy Green4e442b72015-12-10 07:58:58 +0800398 unsigned long *filelen, int flags)
Andy Green4e442b72015-12-10 07:58:58 +0800399static inline int
Andy Green3f599962015-12-14 07:21:42 +0800400lws_plat_file_close(struct lws *wsi, lws_filefd_type fd)
Andy Green4e442b72015-12-10 07:58:58 +0800401
402static inline unsigned long
Andy Green3f599962015-12-14 07:21:42 +0800403lws_plat_file_seek_cur(struct lws *wsi, lws_filefd_type fd, long offset)
Andy Green4e442b72015-12-10 07:58:58 +0800404
405static inline int
Andy Green3f599962015-12-14 07:21:42 +0800406lws_plat_file_read(struct lws *wsi, lws_filefd_type fd, unsigned long *amount,
407 unsigned char *buf, unsigned long len)
Andy Green4e442b72015-12-10 07:58:58 +0800408
409static inline int
Andy Green3f599962015-12-14 07:21:42 +0800410lws_plat_file_write(struct lws *wsi, lws_filefd_type fd, unsigned long *amount,
411 unsigned char *buf, unsigned long len)
Andy Green4e442b72015-12-10 07:58:58 +0800412
413The user code can also override or subclass the file operations, to either
414wrap or replace them. An example is shown in test server.
415
Andy Green3f599962015-12-14 07:21:42 +0800416A wsi can be associated with the file activity, allowing per-connection
417authentication and state to be used when interpreting the file request.
418
Andy Green3f628702015-12-14 07:16:32 +08004192) A new API void * lws_wsi_user(struct lws *wsi) lets you get the pointer to
420the user data associated with the wsi, just from the wsi.
421
Andy Green9e8d1482015-12-18 11:01:03 +08004223) URI argument handling. Libwebsockets parses and protects URI arguments
423like test.html?arg1=1&arg2=2, it decodes %xx uriencoding format and reduces
424path attacks like ../.../../etc/passwd so they cannot go behind the web
425server's /. There is a list of confirmed attacks we're proof against in
426./test-server/attack.sh.
427
428There is a new API lws_hdr_copy_fragment that should be used now to access
429the URI arguments (it returns the fragments length)
430
431 while (lws_hdr_copy_fragment(wsi, buf, sizeof(buf),
432 WSI_TOKEN_HTTP_URI_ARGS, n) > 0) {
433 lwsl_info("URI Arg %d: %s\n", ++n, buf);
434 }
435
436For the example above, calling with n=0 will return "arg1=1" and n=1 "arg2=2".
437All legal uriencodings will have been reduced in those strings.
438
439lws_hdr_copy_fragment() returns the length of the x=y fragment, so it's also
440possible to deal with arguments containing %00. If you don't care about that,
441the returned string has '\0' appended to simplify processing.
442
Andy Green4e442b72015-12-10 07:58:58 +0800443
Andy Green6d417202015-12-04 10:39:23 +0800444User api changes
445----------------
446
Andy Green1a366bf2015-12-14 07:02:51 +08004471) Three APIS
448
449 - lws_callback_on_writable_all_protocol(const struct lws_protocols *protocol)
450 - lws_callback_all_protocol(const struct lws_protocols *protocol)
451 - lws_rx_flow_allow_all_protocol(lws_rx_flow_allow_all_protocol)
452
453Now take an additional pointer to the lws_context in their first argument.
454
455The reason for this change is struct lws_protocols has been changed to remove
456members that lws used for private storage: so the protocols struct in now
457truly const and may be reused serially or simultaneously by different contexts.
458
Andy Green11c05bf2015-12-16 18:19:08 +08004592) Eleven APIs
460
461LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
462lws_add_http_header_by_name(struct lws_context *context,
463 struct lws *wsi,
464 const unsigned char *name,
465 const unsigned char *value,
466 int length,
467 unsigned char **p,
468 unsigned char *end);
469LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
470lws_finalize_http_header(struct lws_context *context,
471 struct lws *wsi,
472 unsigned char **p,
473 unsigned char *end);
474LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
475lws_add_http_header_by_token(struct lws_context *context,
476 struct lws *wsi,
477 enum lws_token_indexes token,
478 const unsigned char *value,
479 int length,
480 unsigned char **p,
481 unsigned char *end);
482LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
483lws_add_http_header_content_length(struct lws_context *context,
484 struct lws *wsi,
485 unsigned long content_length,
486 unsigned char **p,
487 unsigned char *end);
488LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
489lws_add_http_header_status(struct lws_context *context, struct lws *wsi,
490 unsigned int code, unsigned char **p,
491 unsigned char *end);
492
493LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
494lws_serve_http_file(struct lws_context *context, struct lws *wsi,
495 const char *file, const char *content_type,
496 const char *other_headers, int other_headers_len);
497LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
498lws_serve_http_file_fragment(struct lws_context *context, struct lws *wsi);
499
500LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
501lws_return_http_status(struct lws_context *context, struct lws *wsi,
502 unsigned int code, const char *html_body);
503
504LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
505lws_callback_on_writable(const struct lws_context *context, struct lws *wsi);
506
507LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN void
508lws_get_peer_addresses(struct lws_context *context, struct lws *wsi,
509 lws_sockfd_type fd, char *name, int name_len,
510 char *rip, int rip_len);
511
512LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
513lws_read(struct lws_context *context, struct lws *wsi,
514 unsigned char *buf, size_t len);
515
516no longer require their initial struct lws_context * parameter.
517
5183) Several older apis start with libwebsocket_ or libwebsockets_ while newer ones
Andy Green6d417202015-12-04 10:39:23 +0800519all begin lws_. These apis have been changed to all begin with lws_.
520
Andy Green11c05bf2015-12-16 18:19:08 +0800521To convert, search-replace
Andy Green6d417202015-12-04 10:39:23 +0800522
Andy Green11c05bf2015-12-16 18:19:08 +0800523 - libwebsockets_/lws_
524 - libwebsocket_/lws_
525 - struct\ libwebsocket/struct\ lws
Andy Green00c6d152015-12-17 07:54:44 +0800526
5274) context parameter removed from user callback.
528
529Since almost all apis no longer need the context as a parameter, it's no longer
530provided at the user callback directly.
531
532However if you need it, for ALL callbacks wsi is valid and has a valid context
Andy Green6d645392015-12-17 18:25:25 +0800533pointer you can recover using lws_get_context(wsi).
Andy Green6d417202015-12-04 10:39:23 +0800534
535
Andy Greenab620ff2015-10-28 08:39:09 +0800536v1.5-chrome47-firefox41
537=======================
MGadkari020c53c2015-08-21 16:15:36 +0530538
539User api changes
540----------------
541
542LWS_CALLBACK_CLIENT_CONNECTION_ERROR may provide an error string if in is
543non-NULL. If so, the string has length len.
544
Andy Green6d59f592015-10-15 09:12:58 +0800545LWS_SERVER_OPTION_PEER_CERT_NOT_REQUIRED is available to relax the requirement
546for peer certs if you are using the option to require client certs.
547
Andy Green4c79ee72015-10-15 11:20:40 +0800548LWS_WITHOUT_BUILTIN_SHA1 cmake option forces lws to use SHA1() defined
549externally, eg, byOpenSSL, and disables build of libwebsockets_SHA1()
550
551
Andy Green16fb0132015-03-28 11:35:40 +0800552v1.4-chrome43-firefox36
553=======================
Olehfaeac3c2014-07-29 23:18:41 +0800554
555User api additions
556------------------
557
558There's a new member in the info struct used to control context creation,
559ssl_private_key_password, which allows passing into lws the passphrase on
560an SSL cetificate
561
Andy Greeneabed8d2014-08-11 12:11:36 +0800562There's a new member in struct protocols, id, which is ignored by lws but can
563be used by the user code to mark the selected protocol by user-defined version
564or capabliity flag information, for the case multiple versions of a protocol are
565supported.
566
Andy Greenb128ccc2014-08-16 09:54:27 +0800567int lws_is_ssl(wsi) added to allow user code to know if the connection was made
568over ssl or not. If LWS_SERVER_OPTION_ALLOW_NON_SSL_ON_SSL_PORT is used, both
569ssl and non-ssl connections are possible and may need to be treated differently
570in the user code.
571
Andy Green14425ea2014-08-18 22:49:39 +0800572int lws_partial_buffered(wsi) added... should be checked after any
573libwebsocket_write that will be followed by another libwebsocket_write inside
574the same writeable callback. If set, you can't do any more writes until the
575writeable callback is called again. If you only do one write per writeable callback,
576you can ignore this.
577
Andy Green917f43a2014-10-12 14:31:47 +0800578HTTP2-related: HTTP2 changes how headers are handled, lws now has new version-
579agnositic header creation APIs. These do the right thing depending on each
580connection's HTTP version without the user code having to know or care, except
581to make sure to use the new APIs for headers (test-server is updated to use
582them already, so look there for examples)
583
584The APIs "render" the headers into a user-provided buffer and bump *p as it
585is used. If *p reaches end, then the APIs return nonzero for error.
586
587LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
588lws_add_http_header_status(struct libwebsocket_context *context,
589 struct libwebsocket *wsi,
590 unsigned int code,
591 unsigned char **p,
592 unsigned char *end);
593
594Start a response header reporting status like 200, 500, etc
595
596LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
597lws_add_http_header_by_name(struct libwebsocket_context *context,
598 struct libwebsocket *wsi,
599 const unsigned char *name,
600 const unsigned char *value,
601 int length,
602 unsigned char **p,
603 unsigned char *end);
604
605Add a header like name: value in HTTP1.x
606
607LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
608lws_finalize_http_header(struct libwebsocket_context *context,
609 struct libwebsocket *wsi,
610 unsigned char **p,
611 unsigned char *end);
612
613Finish off the headers, like add the extra \r\n in HTTP1.x
614
615LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
616lws_add_http_header_by_token(struct libwebsocket_context *context,
617 struct libwebsocket *wsi,
618 enum lws_token_indexes token,
619 const unsigned char *value,
620 int length,
621 unsigned char **p,
622 unsigned char *end);
623
624Add a header by using a lws token as the name part. In HTTP2, this can be
625compressed to one or two bytes.
626
Olehfaeac3c2014-07-29 23:18:41 +0800627
Andy Green822241c2014-08-18 22:21:51 +0800628User api removal
629----------------
630
631protocols struct member no_buffer_all_partial_tx is removed. Under some
Peter Pentchevbb085da2015-12-03 15:55:11 +0200632conditions like rewriting extension such as compression in use, the built-in
Andy Green822241c2014-08-18 22:21:51 +0800633partial send buffering is the only way to deal with the problem, so turning
634it off is deprecated.
635
636
Andy Green917f43a2014-10-12 14:31:47 +0800637User api changes
638----------------
639
640HTTP2-related: API libwebsockets_serve_http_file() takes an extra parameter at
641the end now
642
643int other_headers_len)
644
645If you are providing other headers, they must be generated using the new
646HTTP-version-agnostic APIs, and you must provide the length of them using this
647additional parameter.
648
joseph.urciuoli4d9c8fc2014-10-16 08:53:19 +0800649struct lws_context_creation_info now has an additional member
650SSL_CTX *provided_client_ssl_ctx you may set to an externally-initialized
651SSL_CTX managed outside lws. Defaulting to zero keeps the existing behaviour of
652lws managing the context, if you memset the struct to 0 or have as a filescope
653initialized struct in bss, no need to change anything.
654
Andy Green822241c2014-08-18 22:21:51 +0800655
Andy Greenc1fdd102014-07-06 09:56:11 +0800656v1.3-chrome37-firefox30
657=======================
658
659 .gitignore | 1 -
660 CMakeLists.txt | 447 +++--
661 README.build | 35 +-
662 README.coding | 14 +
663 changelog | 66 +
664 cmake/LibwebsocketsConfig.cmake.in | 17 +
665 cmake/LibwebsocketsConfigVersion.cmake.in | 11 +
666 config.h.cmake | 18 +
667 cross-ming.cmake | 31 +
668 cross-openwrt-makefile | 91 +
669 lib/client-handshake.c | 205 ++-
670 lib/client-parser.c | 58 +-
671 lib/client.c | 158 +-
672 lib/context.c | 341 ++++
673 lib/extension-deflate-frame.c | 2 +-
674 lib/extension.c | 178 ++
675 lib/handshake.c | 287 +---
676 lib/lextable.h | 338 ++++
677 lib/libev.c | 175 ++
678 lib/libwebsockets.c | 2089 +++--------------------
679 lib/libwebsockets.h | 253 ++-
680 lib/lws-plat-unix.c | 404 +++++
681 lib/lws-plat-win.c | 358 ++++
682 lib/minilex.c | 530 +++---
683 lib/output.c | 445 ++---
684 lib/parsers.c | 682 ++++----
685 lib/pollfd.c | 239 +++
686 lib/private-libwebsockets.h | 501 +++++-
687 lib/server-handshake.c | 274 +--
688 lib/server.c | 858 ++++++++--
689 lib/service.c | 517 ++++++
690 lib/sha-1.c | 38 +-
691 lib/ssl-http2.c | 78 +
692 lib/ssl.c | 571 +++++++
693 test-server/attack.sh | 101 +-
694 test-server/test-client.c | 9 +-
695 test-server/test-echo.c | 17 +-
696 test-server/test-fraggle.c | 7 -
697 test-server/test-ping.c | 12 +-
698 test-server/test-server.c | 330 ++--
699 test-server/test.html | 4 +-
700 win32port/client/client.vcxproj | 259 ---
701 win32port/client/client.vcxproj.filters | 39 -
702 .../libwebsocketswin32.vcxproj.filters | 93 -
703 win32port/server/server.vcxproj | 276 ---
704 win32port/server/server.vcxproj.filters | 51 -
705 win32port/win32helpers/gettimeofday.h | 59 +-
706 win32port/win32helpers/netdb.h | 1 -
707 win32port/win32helpers/strings.h | 0
708 win32port/win32helpers/sys/time.h | 1 -
709 win32port/win32helpers/unistd.h | 0
710 win32port/win32helpers/websock-w32.c | 104 --
711 win32port/win32helpers/websock-w32.h | 62 -
712 win32port/win32port.sln | 100 --
713 win32port/zlib/gzio.c | 3 +-
714 55 files changed, 6779 insertions(+), 5059 deletions(-)
715
Andy Green79002562013-11-09 11:04:35 +0800716
kapejodce64fb02013-11-19 13:38:16 +0100717User api additions
718------------------
719
720POST method is supported
721
722The protocol 0 / HTTP callback can now get two new kinds of callback,
723LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP_BODY (in and len are a chunk of the body of the HTTP request)
724and LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP_BODY_COMPLETION (the expected amount of body has arrived
725and been passed to the user code already). These callbacks are used with the
726post method (see the test server for details).
727
728The period between the HTTP header completion and the completion of the body
729processing is protected by a 5s timeout.
730
731The chunks are stored in a malloc'd buffer of size protocols[0].rx_buffer_size.
732
733
James Devine5b34c972013-12-14 11:41:29 +0800734New server option you can enable from user code
735LWS_SERVER_OPTION_ALLOW_NON_SSL_ON_SSL_PORT allows non-SSL connections to
736also be accepted on an SSL listening port. It's disabled unless you enable
737it explicitly.
738
739
Andy Green7a132792013-12-18 09:48:26 +0800740Two new callbacks are added in protocols[0] that are optional for allowing
741limited thread access to libwebsockets, LWS_CALLBACK_LOCK_POLL and
742LWS_CALLBACK_UNLOCK_POLL.
743
744If you use them, they protect internal and external poll list changes, but if
745you want to use external thread access to libwebsocket_callback_on_writable()
746you have to implement your locking here even if you don't use external
747poll support.
748
749If you will use another thread for this, take a lot of care about managing
750your list of live wsi by doing it from ESTABLISHED and CLOSED callbacks
751(with your own locking).
752
Andrew Canaday9769f4f2014-03-23 13:25:07 +0800753If you configure cmake with -DLWS_WITH_LIBEV=1 then the code allowing the libev
754eventloop instead of the default poll() one will also be compiled in. But to
755use it, you must also set the LWS_SERVER_OPTION_LIBEV flag on the context
756creation info struct options member.
Andy Green7a132792013-12-18 09:48:26 +0800757
Andy Greenc1fdd102014-07-06 09:56:11 +0800758IPV6 is supported and enabled by default except for Windows, you can disable
759the support at build-time by giving -DLWS_IPV6=, and disable use of it even if
James Devine3f13ea22014-03-24 16:09:25 +0800760compiled in by making sure the flag LWS_SERVER_OPTION_DISABLE_IPV6 is set on
761the context creation info struct options member.
762
Andy Greenc1fdd102014-07-06 09:56:11 +0800763You can give LWS_SERVER_OPTION_DISABLE_OS_CA_CERTS option flag to
764guarantee the OS CAs will not be used, even if that support was selected at
765build-time.
766
767Optional "token limits" may be enforced by setting the member "token_limits"
768in struct lws_context_creation_info to point to a struct lws_token_limits.
769NULL means no token limits used for compatibility.
770
Andy Green7a132792013-12-18 09:48:26 +0800771
Andy Green79002562013-11-09 11:04:35 +0800772User api changes
773----------------
774
775Extra optional argument to libwebsockets_serve_http_file() allows injecion
776of HTTP headers into the canned response. Eg, cookies may be added like
777that without getting involved in having to send the header by hand.
778
Patrick Gansterer148b9452014-02-28 02:31:23 +0100779A new info member http_proxy_address may be used at context creation time to
780set the http proxy. If non-NULL, it overrides http_proxy environment var.
Andy Green79002562013-11-09 11:04:35 +0800781
Andy Greend2ec7ad2014-03-15 10:39:29 +0800782Cmake supports LWS_SSL_CLIENT_USE_OS_CA_CERTS defaulting to on, which gets
783the client to use the OS CA Roots. If you're worried somebody with the
784ability to forge for force creation of a client cert from the root CA in
785your OS, you should disable this since your selfsigned $0 cert is a lot safer
786then...
787
Andy Green79002562013-11-09 11:04:35 +0800788
Andy Green81877e62013-10-26 20:36:08 +0800789v1.23-chrome32-firefox24
790========================
791
792 Android.mk | 29 +
793 CMakeLists.txt | 573 ++++++++----
794 COPYING | 503 -----------
795 INSTALL | 365 --------
796 Makefile.am | 13 -
797 README.build | 371 ++------
798 README.coding | 63 ++
799 autogen.sh | 1578 ---------------------------------
800 changelog | 69 ++
801 cmake/FindGit.cmake | 163 ++++
802 cmake/FindOpenSSLbins.cmake | 15 +-
803 cmake/UseRPMTools.cmake | 176 ++++
804 config.h.cmake | 25 +-
805 configure.ac | 226 -----
806 cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf.cmake | 28 +
807 lib/Makefile.am | 89 --
808 lib/base64-decode.c | 98 +-
809 lib/client-handshake.c | 123 ++-
810 lib/client-parser.c | 19 +-
811 lib/client.c | 145 ++-
812 lib/daemonize.c | 4 +-
813 lib/extension.c | 2 +-
814 lib/getifaddrs.h | 4 +-
815 lib/handshake.c | 76 +-
816 lib/libwebsockets.c | 491 ++++++----
817 lib/libwebsockets.h | 164 ++--
818 lib/output.c | 214 ++++-
819 lib/parsers.c | 102 +--
820 lib/private-libwebsockets.h | 66 +-
821 lib/server-handshake.c | 5 +-
822 lib/server.c | 29 +-
823 lib/sha-1.c | 2 +-
824 libwebsockets-api-doc.html | 249 +++---
825 libwebsockets.pc.in | 11 -
826 libwebsockets.spec | 14 +-
827 m4/ignore-me | 2 -
828 scripts/FindLibWebSockets.cmake | 33 +
829 scripts/kernel-doc | 1 +
830 test-server/Makefile.am | 131 ---
831 test-server/leaf.jpg | Bin 0 -> 2477518 bytes
832 test-server/test-client.c | 78 +-
833 test-server/test-echo.c | 33 +-
834 test-server/test-fraggle.c | 26 +-
835 test-server/test-ping.c | 15 +-
836 test-server/test-server.c | 197 +++-
837 test-server/test.html | 5 +-
838 win32port/win32helpers/gettimeofday.c | 74 +-
839 win32port/win32helpers/websock-w32.h | 6 +-
840 48 files changed, 2493 insertions(+), 4212 deletions(-)
841
Andy Green54cb3462013-02-14 22:23:54 +0800842
843User api additions
844------------------
845
846 - You can now call libwebsocket_callback_on_writable() on http connectons,
847 and get a LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP_WRITEABLE callback, the same way you can
848 regulate writes with a websocket protocol connection.
849
Andy Green2672fb22013-02-22 09:54:35 +0800850 - A new member in the context creation parameter struct "ssl_cipher_list" is
851 added, replacing CIPHERS_LIST_STRING. NULL means use the ssl library
852 default list of ciphers.
853
Andy Green58f214e2013-03-09 13:03:53 +0800854 - Not really an api addition, but libwebsocket_service_fd() will now zero
855 the revents field of the pollfd it was called with if it handled the
856 descriptor. So you can tell if it is a non-lws fd by checking revents
857 after the service call... if it's still nonzero, the descriptor
858 belongs to you and you need to take care of it.
859
Andy Greenb55451c2013-03-16 12:32:27 +0800860 - libwebsocket_rx_flow_allow_all_protocol(protocol) will unthrottle all
861 connections with the established protocol. It's designed to be
862 called from user server code when it sees it can accept more input
863 and may have throttled connections using the server rx flow apis
864 while it was unable to accept any other input The user server code
865 then does not have to try to track while connections it choked, this
866 will free up all of them in one call.
867
Andy Green0c9563b2013-06-10 22:54:40 +0800868 - there's a new, optional callback LWS_CALLBACK_CLOSED_HTTP which gets
869 called when an HTTP protocol socket closes
870
Andy Green96d48fd2013-09-18 08:32:55 +0800871 - for LWS_CALLBACK_FILTER_PROTOCOL_CONNECTION callback, the user_space alloc
872 has already been done before the callback happens. That means we can
873 use the user parameter to the callback to contain the user pointer, and
874 move the protocol name to the "in" parameter. The docs for this
875 callback are also updated to reflect how to check headers in there.
876
Andy Green5dc62ea2013-09-20 20:26:12 +0800877 - libwebsocket_client_connect() is now properly nonblocking and async. See
878 README.coding and test-client.c for information on the callbacks you
879 can rely on controlling the async connection period with.
880
Andy Green81877e62013-10-26 20:36:08 +0800881 - if your OS does not support the http_proxy environment variable convention
882 (eg, reportedly OSX), you can use a new api libwebsocket_set_proxy()
Peter Pentchevbb085da2015-12-03 15:55:11 +0200883 to set the proxy details in between context creation and the connection
Andy Green81877e62013-10-26 20:36:08 +0800884 action. For OSes that support http_proxy, that's used automatically.
Andy Greenb55451c2013-03-16 12:32:27 +0800885
Andy Green50097dd2013-02-15 22:36:30 +0800886User api changes
887----------------
888
889 - the external poll callbacks now get the socket descriptor coming from the
890 "in" parameter. The user parameter provides the user_space for the
891 wsi as it normally does on the other callbacks.
Edwin van den Oetelaar8c8a8e12013-02-20 20:56:59 +0800892 LWS_CALLBACK_FILTER_NETWORK_CONNECTION also has the socket descriptor
893 delivered by @in now instead of @user.
Andy Green50097dd2013-02-15 22:36:30 +0800894
Andy Greenfc7c5e42013-02-23 10:50:10 +0800895 - libwebsocket_write() now returns -1 for error, or the amount of data
896 actually accepted for send. Under load, the OS may signal it is
897 ready to send new data on the socket, but have only a restricted
898 amount of memory to buffer the packet compared to usual.
899
Andy Green50097dd2013-02-15 22:36:30 +0800900
Andy Greendc914cf2013-02-18 16:54:26 +0800901User api removal
902----------------
903
904 - libwebsocket_ensure_user_space() is removed from the public api, if you
905 were using it to get user_space, you need to adapt your code to only
906 use user_space inside the user callback.
907
Andy Green2672fb22013-02-22 09:54:35 +0800908 - CIPHERS_LIST_STRING is removed
909
Andy Green0097a992013-03-09 13:06:37 +0800910 - autotools build has been removed. See README.build for info on how to
911 use CMake for your platform
912
Andy Green54cb3462013-02-14 22:23:54 +0800913
Andy Green53a46782013-02-14 11:23:49 +0800914v1.21-chrome26-firefox18
915========================
916
917 - Fixes buffer overflow bug in max frame size handling if you used the
918 default protocol buffer size. If you declared rx_buffer_size in your
919 protocol, which is recommended anyway, your code was unaffected.
920
Andy Green182cb9a2013-02-13 11:54:08 +0800921v1.2-chrome26-firefox18
922=======================
923
924Diffstat
925--------
926
927 .gitignore | 16 +++
928 CMakeLists.txt | 544 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
929 LICENSE | 526 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
930 Makefile.am | 1 +
931 README | 20 +++
932 README.build | 258 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
933 README.coding | 52 ++++++++
934 changelog | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++
935 cmake/FindOpenSSLbins.cmake | 33 +++++
936 config.h.cmake | 173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
937 configure.ac | 22 +++-
938 lib/Makefile.am | 20 ++-
939 lib/base64-decode.c | 2 +-
940 lib/client-handshake.c | 190 +++++++++++-----------------
941 lib/client-parser.c | 88 +++++++------
942 lib/client.c | 384 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
943 lib/daemonize.c | 32 +++--
944 lib/extension-deflate-frame.c | 58 +++++----
945 lib/extension-deflate-stream.c | 19 ++-
946 lib/extension-deflate-stream.h | 4 +-
947 lib/extension.c | 11 +-
948 lib/getifaddrs.c | 315 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
949 lib/getifaddrs.h | 30 ++---
950 lib/handshake.c | 124 +++++++++++-------
951 lib/libwebsockets.c | 736 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------------
952 lib/libwebsockets.h | 237 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
953 lib/output.c | 192 +++++++++++-----------------
954 lib/parsers.c | 966 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------------------------------------
955 lib/private-libwebsockets.h | 225 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
956 lib/server-handshake.c | 82 ++++++------
957 lib/server.c | 96 +++++++-------
958 libwebsockets-api-doc.html | 189 ++++++++++++++++++----------
959 libwebsockets.spec | 17 +--
960 test-server/attack.sh | 148 ++++++++++++++++++++++
961 test-server/test-client.c | 125 +++++++++---------
962 test-server/test-echo.c | 31 +++--
963 test-server/test-fraggle.c | 32 ++---
964 test-server/test-ping.c | 52 ++++----
965 test-server/test-server.c | 129 ++++++++++++-------
966 win32port/libwebsocketswin32/libwebsocketswin32.vcxproj | 279 ----------------------------------------
967 win32port/libwebsocketswin32/libwebsocketswin32.vcxproj.filters | 23 +++-
968 41 files changed, 4398 insertions(+), 2219 deletions(-)
969
Andy Green7b405452013-02-01 10:50:15 +0800970
971User api additions
972------------------
973
974 - lws_get_library_version() returns a const char * with a string like
975 "1.1 9e7f737", representing the library version from configure.ac
976 and the git HEAD hash the library was built from
977
Andy Greena47865f2013-02-10 09:39:47 +0800978 - TCP Keepalive can now optionally be applied to all lws sockets, on Linux
979 also with controllable timeout, number of probes and probe interval.
980 (On BSD type OS, you can only use system default settings for the
981 timing and retries, although enabling it is supported by setting
982 ka_time to nonzero, the exact value has no meaning.)
983 This enables detection of idle connections which are logically okay,
984 but are in fact dead, due to network connectivity issues at the server,
Andy Greena690cd02013-02-09 12:25:31 +0800985 client, or any intermediary. By default it's not enabled, but you
986 can enable it by setting a non-zero timeout (in seconds) at the new
987 ka_time member at context creation time.
988
Andy Greena7109e62013-02-11 12:05:54 +0800989 - Two new optional user callbacks added, LWS_CALLBACK_PROTOCOL_DESTROY which
990 is called one-time per protocol as the context is being destroyed, and
991 LWS_CALLBACK_PROTOCOL_INIT which is called when the context is created
992 and the protocols are added, again it's a one-time affair.
993 This lets you manage per-protocol allocations properly including
994 cleaning up after yourself when the server goes down.
Andy Green7b405452013-02-01 10:50:15 +0800995
Andy Greened334462013-02-07 21:14:33 +0800996User api changes
997----------------
998
Andy Green1b265272013-02-09 14:01:09 +0800999 - libwebsocket_create_context() has changed from taking a ton of parameters
1000 to just taking a pointer to a struct containing the parameters. The
1001 struct lws_context_creation_info is in libwebsockets.h, the members
1002 are in the same order as when they were parameters to the call
1003 previously. The test apps are all updated accordingly so you can
1004 see example code there.
1005
Andy Greened334462013-02-07 21:14:33 +08001006 - Header tokens are now deleted after the websocket connection is
Andy Green54495112013-02-06 21:10:16 +09001007 established. Not just the header data is saved, but the pointer and
1008 length array is also removed from (union) scope saving several hundred
1009 bytes per connection once it is established
1010
1011 - struct libwebsocket_protocols has a new member rx_buffer_size, this
1012 controls rx buffer size per connection of that protocol now. Sources
1013 for apps built against older versions of the library won't declare
1014 this in their protocols, defaulting it to 0. Zero buffer is legal,
1015 it causes a default buffer to be allocated (currently 4096)
1016
1017 If you want to receive only atomic frames in your user callback, you
1018 should set this to greater than your largest frame size. If a frame
1019 comes that exceeds that, no error occurs but the callback happens as
1020 soon as the buffer limit is reached, and again if it is reached again
1021 or the frame completes. You can detect that has happened by seeing
1022 there is still frame content pending using
1023 libwebsockets_remaining_packet_payload()
1024
1025 By correctly setting this, you can save a lot of memory when your
1026 protocol has small frames (see the test server and client sources).
1027
Andy Green16ab3182013-02-10 18:02:31 +08001028 - LWS_MAX_HEADER_LEN now defaults to 1024 and is the total amount of known
1029 header payload lws can cope with, that includes the GET URL, origin
1030 etc. Headers not understood by lws are ignored and their payload
1031 not included in this.
1032
Andy Green54495112013-02-06 21:10:16 +09001033
1034User api removals
1035-----------------
1036
Andy Green16ab3182013-02-10 18:02:31 +08001037 - The configuration-time option MAX_USER_RX_BUFFER has been replaced by a
1038 buffer size chosen per-protocol. For compatibility, there's a default
1039 of 4096 rx buffer, but user code should set the appropriate size for
1040 the protocol frames.
1041
1042 - LWS_INITIAL_HDR_ALLOC and LWS_ADDITIONAL_HDR_ALLOC are no longer needed
1043 and have been removed. There's a new header management scheme that
1044 handles them in a much more compact way.
Andy Greened334462013-02-07 21:14:33 +08001045
Andy Green70edd6f2013-02-12 10:15:25 +08001046 - libwebsockets_hangup_on_client() is removed. If you want to close the
1047 connection you must do so from the user callback and by returning
1048 -1 from there.
1049
Andy Green508946c2013-02-12 10:19:08 +08001050 - libwebsocket_close_and_free_session() is now private to the library code
1051 only and not exposed for user code. If you want to close the
1052 connection, you must do so from the user callback by returning -1
1053 from there.
1054
Andy Greened334462013-02-07 21:14:33 +08001055
Andy Greendf60b0c2013-02-06 19:57:12 +09001056New features
1057------------
1058
Andy Green9b09dc02013-02-08 12:48:36 +08001059 - Cmake project file added, aimed initially at Windows support: this replaces
Andy Green16ab3182013-02-10 18:02:31 +08001060 the visual studio project files that were in the tree until now.
Andy Greendf60b0c2013-02-06 19:57:12 +09001061
Andy Greenc3ef0d62013-02-12 10:50:49 +08001062 - CyaSSL now supported in place of OpenSSL (--use-cyassl on configure)
1063
Andy Green9b09dc02013-02-08 12:48:36 +08001064 - PATH_MAX or MAX_PATH no longer needed
Andy Greendf60b0c2013-02-06 19:57:12 +09001065
Andy Green54495112013-02-06 21:10:16 +09001066 - cutomizable frame rx buffer size by protocol
1067
Andy Greenc3ef0d62013-02-12 10:50:49 +08001068 - optional TCP keepalive so dead peers can be detected, can be enabled at
1069 context-creation time
1070
1071 - valgrind-clean: no SSL or CyaSSL: completely clean. With OpenSSL, 88 bytes
1072 lost at OpenSSL library init and symptomless reports of uninitialized
1073 memory usage... seems to be a known and ignored problem at OpenSSL
1074
Andy Greena3957ef2013-02-11 09:31:43 +08001075 - By default debug is enabled and the library is built for -O0 -g to faclitate
1076 that. Use --disable-debug configure option to build instead with -O4
1077 and no -g (debug info), obviously providing best performance and
1078 reduced binary size.
Andy Green7b405452013-02-01 10:50:15 +08001079
Andy Green895d56d2013-02-11 09:32:53 +08001080 - 1.0 introduced some code to try to not deflate small frames, however this
1081 seems to break when confronted with a mixture of frames above and
1082 below the threshold, so it's removed. Veto the compression extension
1083 in your user callback if you will typically have very small frames.
1084
Andy Green16ab3182013-02-10 18:02:31 +08001085 - There are many memory usage improvements, both a reduction in malloc/
1086 realloc and architectural changes. A websocket connection now
1087 consumes only 296 bytes with SSL or 272 bytes without on x86_64,
1088 during header processing an additional 1262 bytes is allocated in a
1089 single malloc, but is freed when the websocket connection starts.
1090 The RX frame buffer defined by the protocol in user
1091 code is also allocated per connection, this represents the largest
1092 frame you can receive atomically in that protocol.
1093
Andy Greenc3ef0d62013-02-12 10:50:49 +08001094 - On ARM9 build, just http+ws server no extensions or ssl, <12Kbytes .text
1095 and 112 bytes per connection (+1328 only during header processing)
1096
Andy Green895d56d2013-02-11 09:32:53 +08001097
Andy Greenbd1132f2013-01-31 19:53:05 +08001098v1.1-chrome26-firefox18
Andy Greena35c86f2013-01-31 10:16:44 +08001099=======================
1100
1101Diffstat
1102--------
1103
1104 Makefile.am | 4 +
1105 README-test-server | 291 ---
1106 README.build | 239 ++
1107 README.coding | 138 ++
1108 README.rst | 72 -
1109 README.test-apps | 272 +++
1110 configure.ac | 116 +-
1111 lib/Makefile.am | 55 +-
1112 lib/base64-decode.c | 5 +-
1113 lib/client-handshake.c | 121 +-
1114 lib/client-parser.c | 394 ++++
1115 lib/client.c | 807 +++++++
1116 lib/daemonize.c | 212 ++
1117 lib/extension-deflate-frame.c | 132 +-
1118 lib/extension-deflate-stream.c | 12 +-
1119 lib/extension-x-google-mux.c | 1223 ----------
1120 lib/extension-x-google-mux.h | 96 -
1121 lib/extension.c | 8 -
1122 lib/getifaddrs.c | 271 +++
1123 lib/getifaddrs.h | 76 +
1124 lib/handshake.c | 582 +----
1125 lib/libwebsockets.c | 2493 ++++++---------------
1126 lib/libwebsockets.h | 115 +-
1127 lib/md5.c | 217 --
1128 lib/minilex.c | 440 ++++
1129 lib/output.c | 628 ++++++
1130 lib/parsers.c | 2016 +++++------------
1131 lib/private-libwebsockets.h | 284 +--
1132 lib/server-handshake.c | 275 +++
1133 lib/server.c | 377 ++++
1134 libwebsockets-api-doc.html | 300 +--
1135 m4/ignore-me | 2 +
1136 test-server/Makefile.am | 111 +-
1137 test-server/libwebsockets.org-logo.png | Bin 0 -> 7029 bytes
1138 test-server/test-client.c | 45 +-
1139 test-server/test-echo.c | 330 +++
1140 test-server/test-fraggle.c | 20 +-
1141 test-server/test-ping.c | 22 +-
1142 test-server/test-server-extpoll.c | 554 -----
1143 test-server/test-server.c | 349 ++-
1144 test-server/test.html | 3 +-
1145 win32port/zlib/ZLib.vcxproj | 749 ++++---
1146 win32port/zlib/ZLib.vcxproj.filters | 188 +-
1147 win32port/zlib/adler32.c | 348 ++-
1148 win32port/zlib/compress.c | 160 +-
1149 win32port/zlib/crc32.c | 867 ++++----
1150 win32port/zlib/crc32.h | 882 ++++----
1151 win32port/zlib/deflate.c | 3799 +++++++++++++++-----------------
1152 win32port/zlib/deflate.h | 688 +++---
1153 win32port/zlib/gzclose.c | 50 +-
1154 win32port/zlib/gzguts.h | 325 ++-
1155 win32port/zlib/gzlib.c | 1157 +++++-----
1156 win32port/zlib/gzread.c | 1242 ++++++-----
1157 win32port/zlib/gzwrite.c | 1096 +++++----
1158 win32port/zlib/infback.c | 1272 ++++++-----
1159 win32port/zlib/inffast.c | 680 +++---
1160 win32port/zlib/inffast.h | 22 +-
1161 win32port/zlib/inffixed.h | 188 +-
1162 win32port/zlib/inflate.c | 2976 +++++++++++++------------
1163 win32port/zlib/inflate.h | 244 +-
1164 win32port/zlib/inftrees.c | 636 +++---
1165 win32port/zlib/inftrees.h | 124 +-
1166 win32port/zlib/trees.c | 2468 +++++++++++----------
1167 win32port/zlib/trees.h | 256 +--
1168 win32port/zlib/uncompr.c | 118 +-
1169 win32port/zlib/zconf.h | 934 ++++----
1170 win32port/zlib/zlib.h | 3357 ++++++++++++++--------------
1171 win32port/zlib/zutil.c | 642 +++---
1172 win32port/zlib/zutil.h | 526 ++---
1173 69 files changed, 19556 insertions(+), 20145 deletions(-)
1174
1175user api changes
1176----------------
1177
1178 - libwebsockets_serve_http_file() now takes a context as first argument
1179
1180 - libwebsockets_get_peer_addresses() now takes a context and wsi as first
1181 two arguments
1182
1183
1184user api additions
1185------------------
1186
1187 - lwsl_...() logging apis, default to stderr but retargetable by user code;
1188 may be used also by user code
1189
1190 - lws_set_log_level() set which logging apis are able to emit (defaults to
1191 notice, warn, err severities), optionally set the emit callback
1192
1193 - lwsl_emit_syslog() helper callback emits to syslog
1194
1195 - lws_daemonize() helper code that forks the app into a headless daemon
1196 properly, maintains a lock file with pid in suitable for sysvinit etc to
1197 control lifecycle
1198
1199 - LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP_FILE_COMPLETION callback added since http file
1200 transfer is now asynchronous (see test server code)
1201
1202 - lws_frame_is_binary() from a wsi pointer, let you know if the received
1203 data was sent in BINARY mode
1204
1205
1206user api removals
1207-----------------
1208
1209 - libwebsockets_fork_service_loop() - no longer supported (had intractable problems)
1210 arrange your code to act from the user callback instead from same
1211 process context as the service loop
1212
1213 - libwebsockets_broadcast() - use libwebsocket_callback_on_writable[_all_protocol]()
1214 instead from same process context as the service loop. See the test apps
1215 for examples.
1216
1217 - x-google-mux() removed until someone wants it
1218
1219 - pre -v13 (ancient) protocol support removed
1220
1221
1222New features
1223------------
1224
1225 - echo test server and client compatible with echo.websocket.org added
1226
1227 - many new configure options (see README.build) to reduce footprint of the
1228 library to what you actually need, eg, --without-client and
1229 --without-server
1230
1231 - http + websocket server can build to as little as 12K .text for ARM
1232
1233 - no more MAX_CLIENTS limitation; adapts to support the max number of fds
1234 allowed to the process by ulimit, defaults to 1024 on Fedora and
1235 Ubuntu. Use ulimit to control this without needing to configure
1236 the library. Code here is smaller and faster.
1237
1238 - adaptive ratio of listen socket to connection socket service allows
1239 good behaviour under Apache ab test load. Tested with thousands
1240 of simultaneous connections
1241
1242 - reduction in per-connection memory footprint by moving to a union to hold
1243 mutually-exclusive state for the connection
1244
1245 - robustness: Out of Memory taken care of for all allocation code now
1246
1247 - internal getifaddrs option if your toolchain lacks it (some uclibc)
1248
1249 - configurable memory limit for deflate operations
1250
1251 - improvements in SSL code nonblocking operation, possible hang solved,
1252 some SSL operations broken down into pollable states so there is
1253 no library blocking, timeout coverage for SSL_connect
1254
1255 - extpoll test server merged into single test server source
1256
1257 - robustness: library should deal with all recoverable socket conditions
1258
1259 - rx flowcontrol for backpressure notification fixed and implmeneted
1260 correctly in the test server
1261
1262 - optimal lexical parser added for header processing; all headers in a
1263 single 276-byte state table
1264
1265 - latency tracking api added (configure --with-latency)
1266
1267 - Improved in-tree documentation, REAME.build, README.coding,
1268 README.test-apps, changelog
1269
1270 - Many small fixes
1271
1272
1273v1.0-chrome25-firefox17 (6cd1ea9b005933f)