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Re: [PATCH] Allow curl to rewind the read buffers

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 2, 2009, 07:03 UTC
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Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st> writes:
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> When using multi-pass authentication methods, the curl library may
> need to rewind the read buffers (depending on how much already has
> been fed to the server) used for providing data to HTTP PUT, POST or
> PROPFIND, and in order to allow the library to do so, we need to tell
> it how by providing either an ioctl callback or a seek callback.
>
> This patch adds an ioctl callback, which should be usable on older
> curl versions (since 7.12.3) than the seek callback (introduced in
> curl 7.18.0).
>
> Some HTTP servers (such as Apache) give an 401 error reply immediately
> after receiving the headers (so no data has been read from the read
> buffers, and thus no rewinding is needed), but other servers (such
> as Lighttpd) only replies after the whole request has been sent and
> all data has been read from the read buffers, making rewinding necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjo <martin@martin.st>
Looks good, thanks.

Mike, how does this interact with your effort for defining a simplified dependency rules on libcurl versions?

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> Updated comment to better describe the potential need for this.
>
>  http-push.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  http.c      |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  http.h      |    7 +++++++
>  3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/http-push.c b/http-push.c
> index 6ce5a1d..7dc0dd4 100644
> --- a/http-push.c
> +++ b/http-push.c
> @@ -567,6 +567,10 @@ static void start_put(struct transfer_request *request)
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, &request->buffer);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, request->buffer.buf.len);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, fread_buffer);
> +#ifndef NO_CURL_IOCTL
> +	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION, ioctl_buffer);
> +	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA, &request->buffer);
> +#endif
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, fwrite_null);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, DAV_PUT);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1);
> @@ -1267,6 +1271,10 @@ static struct remote_lock *lock_remote(const char *path, long timeout)
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, &out_buffer);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, out_buffer.buf.len);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, fread_buffer);
> +#ifndef NO_CURL_IOCTL
> +	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION, ioctl_buffer);
> +	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA, &out_buffer);
> +#endif
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_FILE, &in_buffer);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, fwrite_buffer);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
> @@ -1508,6 +1516,10 @@ static void remote_ls(const char *path, int flags,
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, &out_buffer);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, out_buffer.buf.len);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, fread_buffer);
> +#ifndef NO_CURL_IOCTL
> +	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION, ioctl_buffer);
> +	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA, &out_buffer);
> +#endif
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_FILE, &in_buffer);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, fwrite_buffer);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
> @@ -1584,6 +1596,10 @@ static int locking_available(void)
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, &out_buffer);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, out_buffer.buf.len);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, fread_buffer);
> +#ifndef NO_CURL_IOCTL
> +	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION, ioctl_buffer);
> +	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA, &out_buffer);
> +#endif
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_FILE, &in_buffer);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, fwrite_buffer);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_URL, repo->url);
> @@ -1766,6 +1782,10 @@ static int update_remote(unsigned char *sha1, struct remote_lock *lock)
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, &out_buffer);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, out_buffer.buf.len);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, fread_buffer);
> +#ifndef NO_CURL_IOCTL
> +	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION, ioctl_buffer);
> +	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA, &out_buffer);
> +#endif
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, fwrite_null);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, DAV_PUT);
>  	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, dav_headers);
> @@ -1910,6 +1930,10 @@ static void update_remote_info_refs(struct remote_lock *lock)
>  		curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, &buffer);
>  		curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, buffer.buf.len);
>  		curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, fread_buffer);
> +#ifndef NO_CURL_IOCTL
> +		curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION, ioctl_buffer);
> +		curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA, &buffer);
> +#endif
>  		curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, fwrite_null);
>  		curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, DAV_PUT);
>  		curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, dav_headers);
> diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
> index eae74aa..3e8d548 100644
> --- a/http.c
> +++ b/http.c
> @@ -44,6 +44,25 @@ size_t fread_buffer(void *ptr, size_t eltsize, size_t nmemb, void *buffer_)
>  	return size;
>  }
>  
> +#ifndef NO_CURL_IOCTL
> +curlioerr ioctl_buffer(CURL *handle, int cmd, void *clientp)
> +{
> +	struct buffer *buffer = clientp;
> +
> +	switch (cmd) {
> +	case CURLIOCMD_NOP:
> +		return CURLIOE_OK;
> +
> +	case CURLIOCMD_RESTARTREAD:
> +		buffer->posn = 0;
> +		return CURLIOE_OK;
> +
> +	default:
> +		return CURLIOE_UNKNOWNCMD;
> +	}
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  size_t fwrite_buffer(const void *ptr, size_t eltsize, size_t nmemb, void *buffer_)
>  {
>  	size_t size = eltsize * nmemb;
> diff --git a/http.h b/http.h
> index 905b462..26abebe 100644
> --- a/http.h
> +++ b/http.h
> @@ -37,6 +37,10 @@
>  #define CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR CURLE_HTTP_NOT_FOUND
>  #endif
>  
> +#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM < 0x070c03
> +#define NO_CURL_IOCTL
> +#endif
> +
>  struct slot_results
>  {
>  	CURLcode curl_result;
> @@ -67,6 +71,9 @@ struct buffer
>  extern size_t fread_buffer(void *ptr, size_t eltsize, size_t nmemb, void *strbuf);
>  extern size_t fwrite_buffer(const void *ptr, size_t eltsize, size_t nmemb, void *strbuf);
>  extern size_t fwrite_null(const void *ptr, size_t eltsize, size_t nmemb, void *strbuf);
> +#ifndef NO_CURL_IOCTL
> +extern curlioerr ioctl_buffer(CURL *handle, int cmd, void *clientp);
> +#endif
>  
>  /* Slot lifecycle functions */
>  extern struct active_request_slot *get_active_slot(void);
> -- 
> 1.6.0.2
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