request. During readcallback, would generate an overrun-type message
about reading position beyond end-of-data. Mistake was is messaging
when state is exactly at end of data (which is expected) versus an
overrun. Both result in declaring end-of-data to libcurl. Also
changed some of the status logging for the metrics payload to be
less chatty on success, more informative on error.
Define expectations for headers for GET, POST, PUT requests.
Document those in the interface, test those with integration tests.
Verify that header overrides work as expected.
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.
HttpResponse object now has two strings for these content headers.
Either or both may be empty. Tidied up the cross-platform string
code and got more defensive about the length of a header line.
Integration test for the new response object.
Think I have found the major factor that causes the Linksys WRT54G V5 to
fall over in testing scenarios: DNS. For some historical reason, we're
trying to use libcurl without any DNS caching. My implementation echoed
that and implemented it correctly and I was seeing a DNS request per request
on the wire. The existing implementation tries to do that and has bugs
because it is clearing caching DNS data querying only once every few
seconds. Once I started emulating the bug, comms through the WRT became
much, much more reliable.
Only thing interesting in this changeset is the discovery that a sleep
in the fake HTTP server ties up tests. Need to thread that or fail on
client disconnect or something to speed that up and make it usable for
bigger test scenarios. But good enough for now...
Pretty straightforward. Still don't like how I'm managing
the options block. Struct? Accessors? Can't decide. But
the options now speed up the unit test runs even as I add
tests.
Non-LLThread-based threads need to do some registration or LLMutex locks taken out in these
threads will not work as expected (SH-3154). We'll get a better solution later, this fixes
some things for now. Tracing of operations now supported. Global and per-request (via
HttpOptions) tracing levels of [0..3]. The 2 and 3 levels use libcurl's VERBOSE mode
combined with CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION to stream high levels of detail into the log. *Very*
laggy but useful. Simple GET request supported (no Range: header). Really just a
degenrate case of a ranged get but supplied an API anyway. Global option to use the
LLProxy interface to setup CURL handles for either socks5 or http proxy usage. This
isn't really the most encapsulated way to do this but a better solution will have to
come later. The wantHeaders and tracing options are now supported in HttpOptions giving
per-request controls. Big refactoring of the HTTP resource waiter in lltexturefetch.
What I was doing before wasn't correct. Instead, I'm implementing the resource wait
after the Semaphore model (though not using system semaphores). So instead of having
a sequence like: SEND_HTTP_REQ -> WAIT_HTTP_RESOURCE -> SEND_HTTP_REQ, we now
do WAIT_HTTP_RESOURCE -> WAIT_HTTP_RESOURCE2 (actual wait) -> SEND_HTTP_REQ. Works
well but the prioritized filling of the corehttp library needs some performance
work later.
Implemented/modified PUT & POST to not used chunked encoding for the request.
Made the unit test much happier and probably a better thing for the pipeline.
Have a cheesy static & dynamic proxy capability using both local options and
a way to wire into LLProxy in llmessages. Not a clean thing but it will get
the proxy path working with both socks5 & http proxies. Refactoring to get
rid of unneeded library handler and unified an HttpStatus return for all
requests. Big batch of code removed as a result of that and more is possible
as well as some syscall avoidance with a bit more work. Boosted the unit
tests for simple PUT & POST test which revealed the test harness does *not*
like chunked encoding so we'll avoid it for now (and don't really need it
in any of our schemes).
Retry/response handling is decided in policy so moved that there. Removed special case
206-without-content-range response in transport. Have this sitation recognizable in the
API and let callers deal with it as needed.
surprised me. Added a retry queue similar to ready queue to the
policy object which is sorted by retry time. Currently do five
retries (after the initial try) delayed by .25, .5, 1, 2 and 5
seconds. Removed the retry logic from the lltexturefetch module.
Upped the waiting time in the unit test for the retries. People
won't like this but tough, need tests.
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.
boost::thread and the easiest path to that was to go with the 1.48 Boost release
in the 3P tree (eliminating a fork for a modified 1.45 packaging). One unit test,
the most important one, is failing in test_httprequest but that can be attended
to later. This test issues a GET to http://localhost:2/ and that is hitting the
wire but the libcurl plumbing isn't delivering the failure, only the eventual
timeout. An unexpected change in behavior.
Monty Brandenberg