Turns out that Monty didn't intend for the int-flavored representation of
HttpStatus to expand to 64 bits even when unsigned long is that wide. So
change the implicit conversion operator, and its uses, to U32 instead. That
produces a consistent toHex() result for both 32-bit and 64-bit builds.
Incorporate the new libcurl 7.38.0 build with curl bug 1420
workaround. Add developer-centric testing code to evaluate
the workaround or a future fix for 1420.
as transfers can appear delayed with deep pipelining and more
requests in the pool. Added bad HTTP status error (typically
getting a 0 back as HTTP status from libcurl) to the list of
retryable errors. There's a response stream problem with libcurl
and pipelining that induces this problem. Retrying helps but
may not be entirely safe. Watch bug 1420 on the libcurl sourceforge
bug tracker. Extend options of test/example program to include
un-ranged requests. Document the excessive data transfer induced
when ranged requests are disabled. This is an abnormal mode for
very rare users so we'll just eat that for now.
Start using DNS cache in legacy LLCurl code. Go to 15 seconds
particularly as we're using threaded resolver at this point.
Documentation cleanup. Add libcurl status checking and logging
for curl_easy_setopt() operations that fail. Shouldn't happen
and we'll just continue anyway but there's info in the logs to
track these down now. Cleaned up logic around FASTTIMER enable
defines used to evaluate pipeline stalls in main thread.
Removed long-standing thread race around caps strings and
URL construction. Not a significant risk but refactoring the
code to get rid of them removed one huge eyesore. It can be
made even slicker if desired (see notes).
Added toTerseString() conversion on HttpStatus to generate a string
that's more descriptive than the hex value of the HttpStatus value
but still forms a short, searchable token (e.g. "Http_503" or
"Core_7"). Using this throughout the viewer now, no live cases
of toHex(), I believe.
Not certain what the source of the short data is with one resident but I'm
going to make these problems retryable as they are transport-related. Lift
the retry detection into a method that should be reusable by others interested
in determining what is retryable. Trace output handling on the libcurl debug
callback was attrocious. Some unsafe length handling on my part was protected
by a second layer of defense. Made that correct and more useful by logging
actual data sizes during trace.
When releasing HTTP waiters, avoid unnecessary sort activity.
For Content-Type in responses, let libcurl do the work and removed
my parsing of headers. Drop Content-Encoding as libcurl will deal
with that. If anyone is interested, they can parse.
Implemented first global policy definitions to support SSL CA certificate configuration
to support https: operations. Fixed HTTP 206 status handling to match what is currently
being done by grid services and to lay a foundation for fixes that will be a response
to ER-1824. More libcurl CURLOPT options set on easy handles to do peer verification
in the traditional way. HTTP POST working and now reporting asset metrics back to
grid for the viewer's asset system. This uses LLSD so that is also showing as compatible
with the new library.
Identified and reacted to the priority inversion problem we
have in texturefetch. Includes the introduction of a priority_queue
for the requests that are ready. Start some parameterization in
anticipation of having policy_class everywhere. Removed _assert.h
which isn't really needed in indra codebase. Implemented async
setPriority request (which I hope I can get rid of eventually along
with all priorities in this library). Converted to using unsigned
int for priority rather than float. Implemented POST and did
groundwork for PUT.
This is the first functional viewer pass with the HTTP work of the texture fetch
code performed by the llcorehttp library. Not exactly a 'drop-in' replacement
but a work-alike with some changes (e.g. handler notification in consumer
thread versus responder notification in worker thread).
This also includes some temporary changes in the priority scheme to prevent
the kind of priority inversion found in VWR-28996. Scheme used here does
provide liveness if not optimal responsiveness or order-of-operation.
The llcorehttp library at this point is far from optimally performing.
Its worker thread is making relatively poor use of cycles it gets and
it doesn't idle or sleep intelligently yet. This early integration step
helps shake out the interfaces, implementation niceties will be covered
soon.
Nat Goodspeed