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1 /*
2  * Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
3  * All rights reserved.
4  *
5  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
6  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
7  * are met:
8  * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
9  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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12  *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
13  * 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
14  *    derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
15  *
16  * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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19  * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
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25  * THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
26  */
27 #ifndef _EVHTTP_H_
28 #define _EVHTTP_H_
29 
30 #include <event.h>
31 
32 #ifdef __cplusplus
33 extern "C" {
34 #endif
35 
36 #ifdef WIN32
37 #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
38 #include <winsock2.h>
39 #include <windows.h>
40 #undef WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
41 #endif
42 
43 /** @file evhttp.h
44  *
45  * Basic support for HTTP serving.
46  *
47  * As libevent is a library for dealing with event notification and most
48  * interesting applications are networked today, I have often found the
49  * need to write HTTP code.  The following prototypes and definitions provide
50  * an application with a minimal interface for making HTTP requests and for
51  * creating a very simple HTTP server.
52  */
53 
54 /* Response codes */
55 #define HTTP_OK			200
56 #define HTTP_NOCONTENT		204
57 #define HTTP_MOVEPERM		301
58 #define HTTP_MOVETEMP		302
59 #define HTTP_NOTMODIFIED	304
60 #define HTTP_BADREQUEST		400
61 #define HTTP_NOTFOUND		404
62 #define HTTP_SERVUNAVAIL	503
63 
64 struct evhttp;
65 struct evhttp_request;
66 struct evkeyvalq;
67 
68 /** Create a new HTTP server
69  *
70  * @param base (optional) the event base to receive the HTTP events
71  * @return a pointer to a newly initialized evhttp server structure
72  */
73 struct evhttp *evhttp_new(struct event_base *base);
74 
75 /**
76  * Binds an HTTP server on the specified address and port.
77  *
78  * Can be called multiple times to bind the same http server
79  * to multiple different ports.
80  *
81  * @param http a pointer to an evhttp object
82  * @param address a string containing the IP address to listen(2) on
83  * @param port the port number to listen on
84  * @return a newly allocated evhttp struct
85  * @see evhttp_free()
86  */
87 int evhttp_bind_socket(struct evhttp *http, const char *address, u_short port);
88 
89 /**
90  * Makes an HTTP server accept connections on the specified socket
91  *
92  * This may be useful to create a socket and then fork multiple instances
93  * of an http server, or when a socket has been communicated via file
94  * descriptor passing in situations where an http servers does not have
95  * permissions to bind to a low-numbered port.
96  *
97  * Can be called multiple times to have the http server listen to
98  * multiple different sockets.
99  *
100  * @param http a pointer to an evhttp object
101  * @param fd a socket fd that is ready for accepting connections
102  * @return 0 on success, -1 on failure.
103  * @see evhttp_free(), evhttp_bind_socket()
104  */
105 int evhttp_accept_socket(struct evhttp *http, int fd);
106 
107 /**
108  * Free the previously created HTTP server.
109  *
110  * Works only if no requests are currently being served.
111  *
112  * @param http the evhttp server object to be freed
113  * @see evhttp_start()
114  */
115 void evhttp_free(struct evhttp* http);
116 
117 /** Set a callback for a specified URI */
118 void evhttp_set_cb(struct evhttp *, const char *,
119     void (*)(struct evhttp_request *, void *), void *);
120 
121 /** Removes the callback for a specified URI */
122 int evhttp_del_cb(struct evhttp *, const char *);
123 
124 /** Set a callback for all requests that are not caught by specific callbacks
125  */
126 void evhttp_set_gencb(struct evhttp *,
127     void (*)(struct evhttp_request *, void *), void *);
128 
129 /**
130  * Set the timeout for an HTTP request.
131  *
132  * @param http an evhttp object
133  * @param timeout_in_secs the timeout, in seconds
134  */
135 void evhttp_set_timeout(struct evhttp *, int timeout_in_secs);
136 
137 /* Request/Response functionality */
138 
139 /**
140  * Send an HTML error message to the client.
141  *
142  * @param req a request object
143  * @param error the HTTP error code
144  * @param reason a brief explanation of the error
145  */
146 void evhttp_send_error(struct evhttp_request *req, int error,
147     const char *reason);
148 
149 /**
150  * Send an HTML reply to the client.
151  *
152  * @param req a request object
153  * @param code the HTTP response code to send
154  * @param reason a brief message to send with the response code
155  * @param databuf the body of the response
156  */
157 void evhttp_send_reply(struct evhttp_request *req, int code,
158     const char *reason, struct evbuffer *databuf);
159 
160 /* Low-level response interface, for streaming/chunked replies */
161 void evhttp_send_reply_start(struct evhttp_request *, int, const char *);
162 void evhttp_send_reply_chunk(struct evhttp_request *, struct evbuffer *);
163 void evhttp_send_reply_end(struct evhttp_request *);
164 
165 /**
166  * Start an HTTP server on the specified address and port
167  *
168  * DEPRECATED: it does not allow an event base to be specified
169  *
170  * @param address the address to which the HTTP server should be bound
171  * @param port the port number on which the HTTP server should listen
172  * @return an struct evhttp object
173  */
174 struct evhttp *evhttp_start(const char *address, u_short port);
175 
176 /*
177  * Interfaces for making requests
178  */
179 enum evhttp_cmd_type { EVHTTP_REQ_GET, EVHTTP_REQ_POST, EVHTTP_REQ_HEAD };
180 
181 enum evhttp_request_kind { EVHTTP_REQUEST, EVHTTP_RESPONSE };
182 
183 /**
184  * the request structure that a server receives.
185  * WARNING: expect this structure to change.  I will try to provide
186  * reasonable accessors.
187  */
188 struct evhttp_request {
189 #if defined(TAILQ_ENTRY)
190 	TAILQ_ENTRY(evhttp_request) next;
191 #else
192 struct {
193 	struct evhttp_request *tqe_next;
194 	struct evhttp_request **tqe_prev;
195 }       next;
196 #endif
197 
198 	/* the connection object that this request belongs to */
199 	struct evhttp_connection *evcon;
200 	int flags;
201 #define EVHTTP_REQ_OWN_CONNECTION	0x0001
202 #define EVHTTP_PROXY_REQUEST		0x0002
203 
204 	struct evkeyvalq *input_headers;
205 	struct evkeyvalq *output_headers;
206 
207 	/* address of the remote host and the port connection came from */
208 	char *remote_host;
209 	u_short remote_port;
210 
211 	enum evhttp_request_kind kind;
212 	enum evhttp_cmd_type type;
213 
214 	char *uri;			/* uri after HTTP request was parsed */
215 
216 	char major;			/* HTTP Major number */
217 	char minor;			/* HTTP Minor number */
218 
219 	int response_code;		/* HTTP Response code */
220 	char *response_code_line;	/* Readable response */
221 
222 	struct evbuffer *input_buffer;	/* read data */
223 	ev_int64_t ntoread;
224 	int chunked;
225 
226 	struct evbuffer *output_buffer;	/* outgoing post or data */
227 
228 	/* Callback */
229 	void (*cb)(struct evhttp_request *, void *);
230 	void *cb_arg;
231 
232 	/*
233 	 * Chunked data callback - call for each completed chunk if
234 	 * specified.  If not specified, all the data is delivered via
235 	 * the regular callback.
236 	 */
237 	void (*chunk_cb)(struct evhttp_request *, void *);
238 };
239 
240 /**
241  * Creates a new request object that needs to be filled in with the request
242  * parameters.  The callback is executed when the request completed or an
243  * error occurred.
244  */
245 struct evhttp_request *evhttp_request_new(
246 	void (*cb)(struct evhttp_request *, void *), void *arg);
247 
248 /** enable delivery of chunks to requestor */
249 void evhttp_request_set_chunked_cb(struct evhttp_request *,
250     void (*cb)(struct evhttp_request *, void *));
251 
252 /** Frees the request object and removes associated events. */
253 void evhttp_request_free(struct evhttp_request *req);
254 
255 /**
256  * A connection object that can be used to for making HTTP requests.  The
257  * connection object tries to establish the connection when it is given an
258  * http request object.
259  */
260 struct evhttp_connection *evhttp_connection_new(
261 	const char *address, unsigned short port);
262 
263 /** Frees an http connection */
264 void evhttp_connection_free(struct evhttp_connection *evcon);
265 
266 /** sets the ip address from which http connections are made */
267 void evhttp_connection_set_local_address(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
268     const char *address);
269 
270 /** sets the local port from which http connections are made */
271 void evhttp_connection_set_local_port(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
272     unsigned short port);
273 
274 /** Sets the timeout for events related to this connection */
275 void evhttp_connection_set_timeout(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
276     int timeout_in_secs);
277 
278 /** Sets the retry limit for this connection - -1 repeats indefnitely */
279 void evhttp_connection_set_retries(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
280     int retry_max);
281 
282 /** Set a callback for connection close. */
283 void evhttp_connection_set_closecb(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
284     void (*)(struct evhttp_connection *, void *), void *);
285 
286 /**
287  * Associates an event base with the connection - can only be called
288  * on a freshly created connection object that has not been used yet.
289  */
290 void evhttp_connection_set_base(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
291     struct event_base *base);
292 
293 /** Get the remote address and port associated with this connection. */
294 void evhttp_connection_get_peer(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
295     char **address, u_short *port);
296 
297 /** The connection gets ownership of the request */
298 int evhttp_make_request(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
299     struct evhttp_request *req,
300     enum evhttp_cmd_type type, const char *uri);
301 
302 const char *evhttp_request_uri(struct evhttp_request *req);
303 
304 /* Interfaces for dealing with HTTP headers */
305 
306 const char *evhttp_find_header(const struct evkeyvalq *, const char *);
307 int evhttp_remove_header(struct evkeyvalq *, const char *);
308 int evhttp_add_header(struct evkeyvalq *, const char *, const char *);
309 void evhttp_clear_headers(struct evkeyvalq *);
310 
311 /* Miscellaneous utility functions */
312 
313 
314 /**
315   Helper function to encode a URI.
316 
317   The returned string must be freed by the caller.
318 
319   @param uri an unencoded URI
320   @return a newly allocated URI-encoded string
321  */
322 char *evhttp_encode_uri(const char *uri);
323 
324 
325 /**
326   Helper function to decode a URI.
327 
328   The returned string must be freed by the caller.
329 
330   @param uri an encoded URI
331   @return a newly allocated unencoded URI
332  */
333 char *evhttp_decode_uri(const char *uri);
334 
335 
336 /**
337  * Helper function to parse out arguments in a query.
338  *
339  * Parsing a uri like
340  *
341  *    http://foo.com/?q=test&s=some+thing
342  *
343  * will result in two entries in the key value queue.
344 
345  * The first entry is: key="q", value="test"
346  * The second entry is: key="s", value="some thing"
347  *
348  * @param uri the request URI
349  * @param headers the head of the evkeyval queue
350  */
351 void evhttp_parse_query(const char *uri, struct evkeyvalq *headers);
352 
353 
354 /**
355  * Escape HTML character entities in a string.
356  *
357  * Replaces <, >, ", ' and & with &lt;, &gt;, &quot;,
358  * &#039; and &amp; correspondingly.
359  *
360  * The returned string needs to be freed by the caller.
361  *
362  * @param html an unescaped HTML string
363  * @return an escaped HTML string
364  */
365 char *evhttp_htmlescape(const char *html);
366 
367 #ifdef __cplusplus
368 }
369 #endif
370 
371 #endif /* _EVHTTP_H_ */
372