Turns out that FreeBSD does _not_ give a ENETUNREACH error when
told to make a TCP socket to 255.255.255.255, but it is quite happy
to do so for 239.10.20.30. So that's what we'll do.
Found by Robert Ransom and Dave Hart.
"I'm not sure if you'll like my use of the limited broadcast address
for simulating an ENETUNREACH error with a TCP connection, but it's
the best that I could think of. Basically, we want to trigger a
non-EINPROGRESS error in evutil_socket_connect() immediately at the
connect() in order to bring about the assertion in the
evhttp_connection_fail() error handling code."
If the EVHTTP_URI_NONCONFORMANT flag is passed in (which it is when
parsing URIs we get over the wire), then we relax our checks a lot.
Specifically, we do nothing to check for correct characters in the
path, query, and fragment parts of such a URI.
We could do much more here: we could relax our hostname requirements,
deal with spaces differently/better, trap some errors but not others,
etc. But this should solve the worst user-agent compatibility issues
for now; the other issues can wait for a later release.
evhttp needs to be mindful of all hostnames and addresses that clients
use to contact the main server and vhosts to know the difference between
proxy requests and non-proxy requests.
The old evhttp_decode_uri() function would act as tough it was doing
an (illegal, undefined) decode operation on a whole URL at once, and
treat + characters following a ? as different from + characters
preceding one. But that's not useful: If you are decoding a URI
before splitting off query parameters, you are begging to fail as soon
as somebody gives you a value with an encoded & in it.
The new evhttp_uridecode() function takes an argument that says
whether to decode + signs. Both uridecode and uriencode also now
support encoding or decoding to strings with internal 0-valued
characters.
We already detected certain malformed queries, but we responded by
aborting the query-parsing process half-way through without telling
the user. Now, if query-parsing fails, no headers are returned, and
evhttp_parse_query returns -1.
The EVUTIL_CLOSESOCKET() macro required you to include unistd.h in your
source for POSIX. We might as well turn it into a function: an extra
function call is going to be cheap in comparison with the system call.
We retain the EVUTIL_CLOSESOCKET() macro as an alias for the new
evutil_closesocket() function.
(commit message from email by Nick and Sebastian)
Remeber, win32 has a socket type that's actually a handle, so if
there's a chance that code is run on win32, we can't use "int" as the
socket type.
This isn't a blind search-and-replace: sometimes an fd is really in
fact for a file, and not a socket at all.
when sending chunked requests via multiple calls to evhttp_send_reply_chunk,
the client may close the connection before the server is done sending. this
used to cause a crash.
we introduce a new function evhttp_request_get_connection() that allows the
server to determine if the request is still associated with a connection.
If it's not, evhttp_request_free() needs to be called explicitly or the user
can call evhttp_send_reply_end() which just frees the request, too.
