The ability to do HTTP requests over a UNIX domain socket has been
requested before, in Apr 2008 [0][1] and Sep 2010 [2]. While a
discussion happened, no patch seems to get through. I decided to give it
a go since I need to test a nginx HTTP server which listens on a UNIX
domain socket.
One patch [3] seems to make it possible to use the
CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION function to gain a UNIX domain socket.
Another person wrote a Go program which can do HTTP over a UNIX socket
for Docker[4] which uses a special URL scheme (though the name contains
cURL, it has no relation to the cURL library).
This patch considers support for UNIX domain sockets at the same level
as HTTP proxies / IPv6, it acts as an intermediate socket provider and
not as a separate protocol. Since this feature affects network
operations, a new feature flag was added ("unix-sockets") with a
corresponding CURL_VERSION_UNIX_SOCKETS macro.
A new CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH option is added and documented. This
option enables UNIX domain sockets support for all requests on the
handle (replacing IP sockets and skipping proxies).
A new configure option (--enable-unix-sockets) and CMake option
(ENABLE_UNIX_SOCKETS) can disable this optional feature. Note that I
deliberately did not mark this feature as advanced, this is a
feature/component that should easily be available.
[0]: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-04/0279.html
[1]: http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/04/14/http-over-unix-domain-sockets/
[2]: http://sourceforge.net/p/curl/feature-requests/53/
[3]: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-04/0361.html
[4]: https://github.com/Soulou/curl-unix-socket
Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Although libcurl would never return CURL_VERSION_KERBEROS4 after 7.33,
so would not be output with --version, removed krb4 from the supported
features output.
Option --pinnedpubkey takes a path to a public key in DER format and
only connect if it matches (currently only implemented with OpenSSL).
Provides CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY for curl_easy_setopt().
Extract a public RSA key from a website like so:
openssl s_client -connect google.com:443 2>&1 < /dev/null | \
sed -n '/-----BEGIN/,/-----END/p' | openssl x509 -noout -pubkey \
| openssl rsa -pubin -outform DER > google.com.der
- Replace CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE with CURLAUTH_NEGOTIATE
- CURL_VERSION_GSSNEGOTIATE is deprecated which
is served by CURL_VERSION_SSPI, CURL_VERSION_GSSAPI and
CURUL_VERSION_SPNEGO now.
- Remove display of feature 'GSS-Negotiate'
This is just fundamentally broken. SPNEGO (RFC4178) is a protocol which
allows client and server to negotiate the underlying mechanism which will
actually be used to authenticate. This is *often* Kerberos, and can also
be NTLM and other things. And to complicate matters, there are various
different OIDs which can be used to specify the Kerberos mechanism too.
A SPNEGO exchange will identify *which* GSSAPI mechanism is being used,
and will exchange GSSAPI tokens which are appropriate for that mechanism.
But this SPNEGO implementation just strips the incoming SPNEGO packet
and extracts the token, if any. And completely discards the information
about *which* mechanism is being used. Then we *assume* it was Kerberos,
and feed the token into gss_init_sec_context() with the default
mechanism (GSS_S_NO_OID for the mech_type argument).
Furthermore... broken as this code is, it was never even *used* for input
tokens anyway, because higher layers of curl would just bail out if the
server actually said anything *back* to us in the negotiation. We assume
that we send a single token to the server, and it accepts it. If the server
wants to continue the exchange (as is required for NTLM and for SPNEGO
to do anything useful), then curl was broken anyway.
So the only bit which actually did anything was the bit in
Curl_output_negotiate(), which always generates an *initial* SPNEGO
token saying "Hey, I support only the Kerberos mechanism and this is its
token".
You could have done that by manually just prefixing the Kerberos token
with the appropriate bytes, if you weren't going to do any proper SPNEGO
handling. There's no need for the FBOpenSSL library at all.
The sane way to do SPNEGO is just to *ask* the GSSAPI library to do
SPNEGO. That's what the 'mech_type' argument to gss_init_sec_context()
is for. And then it should all Just Work™.
That 'sane way' will be added in a subsequent patch, as will bug fixes
for our failure to handle any exchange other than a single outbound
token to the server which results in immediate success.
Added initial support for --next/-: which will be used to replace the
rather confusing : command line operation what was used for the URL
specific options prototype.
when using --http2 one can now selectively disable NPN or ALPN with
--no-alpn and --no-npn. for now honored with NSS only.
TODO: honor this option with GnuTLS and OpenSSL
Added the ability to use an XOAUTH2 bearer token [RFC6750] with POP3 for
authentication using RFC6749 "OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework".
The bearer token is expected to be valid for the user specified in
conn->user. If CURLOPT_XOAUTH2_BEARER is defined and the connection has
an advertised auth mechanism of "XOAUTH2", the user and access token are
formatted as a base64 encoded string and sent to the server as
"AUTH XOAUTH2 <bearer token>".
This reverts renaming and usage of lib/*.h header files done
28-12-2012, reverting 2 commits:
f871de0... build: make use of 76 lib/*.h renamed files
ffd8e12... build: rename 76 lib/*.h files
This also reverts removal of redundant include guard (redundant thanks
to changes in above commits) done 2-12-2013, reverting 1 commit:
c087374... curl_setup.h: remove redundant include guard
This also reverts renaming and usage of lib/*.c source files done
3-12-2013, reverting 3 commits:
13606bb... build: make use of 93 lib/*.c renamed files
5b6e792... build: rename 93 lib/*.c files
7d83dff... build: commit 13606bbfde follow-up 1
Start of related discussion thread:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-01/0012.html
Asking for confirmation on pushing this revertion commit:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-01/0048.html
Confirmation summary:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-01/0079.html
NOTICE: The list of 2 files that have been modified by other
intermixed commits, while renamed, and also by at least one
of the 6 commits this one reverts follows below. These 2 files
will exhibit a hole in history unless git's '--follow' option
is used when viewing logs.
lib/curl_imap.h
lib/curl_smtp.h
In this change, --metalink option no longer takes argument. If
it is specified, given URIs are processed as Metalink XML file.
If given URIs are remote (e.g., http URI), curl downloads it
first. Regardless URI is local file (e.g., file URI scheme) or
remote, Metalink XML file is not written to local file system and
the received data is fed into Metalink XML parser directly. This
means with --metalink option, filename related options like -O
and -o are ignored.
Usage examples:
$ curl --metalink http://example.org/foo.metalink
This will download foo.metalink and parse it and then download
the URI described there.
$ curl --metalink file://foo.metalink
This will parse local file foo.metalink and then download the URI
described there.
Configuration files such as curl_config.h and all config-*.h no longer exist
nor are generated/copied into 'src' directory, now these only exist in 'lib'
directory from where curl tool sources uses them.
Additionally old src/setup.h has been refactored into src/tool_setup.h which
now pulls lib/setup.h
The possibility of a makefile needing an include path adjustment exists.
This new option tells curl to not work around a security flaw in the
SSL3 and TLS1.0 protocols. It uses the new libcurl option
CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS with the CURLSSLOPT_ALLOW_BEAST bit set.
Steve Holme
Travis Burtrum