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2013-10-26license: allow all future versions of the GNU GPL
There is currently no GPLv4, so this change has no effect at the moment. In case the GPLv4 arrives and I am not alive to approve/review it, the lesser of evils is have give blanket approval of all future GPL versions (as published by the FSF). The worse evil is to be stuck with a license which cannot guarantee the Free-ness of this project in the future. This unfortunately means the FSF can theoretically come out with license terms I do not agree with, but the GPLv2 and GPLv3 will always be an option to all users.
2013-05-08HttpParser#next? becomes response_start_sent-aware
This could allow servers with persistent connection support[1] to support our check_client_connection in the future. [1] - Rainbows!/zbatery, possibly others
2012-11-29Begin writing HTTP request headers early to detect disconnected clients
This patch checks incoming connections and avoids calling the application if the connection has been closed. It works by sending the beginning of the HTTP response before calling the application to see if the socket can successfully be written to. By enabling this feature users can avoid wasting application rendering time only to find the connection is closed when attempting to write, and throwing out the result. When a client disconnects while being queued or processed, Nginx will log HTTP response 499 but the application will log a 200. Enabling this feature will minimize the time window during which the problem can arise. The feature is disabled by default and can be enabled by adding 'check_client_connection true' to the unicorn config. [ew: After testing this change, Tom Burns wrote: So we just finished the US Black Friday / Cyber Monday weekend running unicorn forked with the last version of the patch I had sent you. It worked splendidly and helped us handle huge flash sales without increased response time over the weekend. Whereas in previous flash traffic scenarios we would see the number of HTTP 499 responses grow past the number of real HTTP 200 responses, over the weekend we saw no growth in 499s during flash sales. Unexpectedly the patch also helped us ward off a DoS attack where the attackers were disconnecting immediately after making a request. ref: <CAK4qKG3rkfVYLyeqEqQyuNEh_nZ8yw0X_cwTxJfJ+TOU+y8F+w@mail.gmail.com> ] Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2011-08-29add GPLv3 option to the license
Existing license terms (Ruby-specific) and GPLv2 remain in place, but GPLv3 is preferred as it helps with distribution of AGPLv3 code and is explicitly compatible with Apache License (v2.0). Many more reasons are documented by the FSF: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html http://gplv3.fsf.org/rms-why.html ref: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.unicorn.general/933
2011-06-15http: delay CoW string invalidations in filter_body
Not all invocations of filter_body will trigger CoW on the given destination string. We can also avoid an unnecessary rb_str_set_len() in the non-chunked path, too.
2011-06-15http: remove tainting flag
Needless line noise, kgio doesn't support tainting anyways.
2011-06-14http: fix documentation for dechunk!
chunk_ready! was my original name for it, but I'm indecisive when it comes to naming things.
2011-06-13http: dechunk! method to enter dechunk mode
This allows one to enter the dechunker without parsing HTTP headers beforehand. Since we skipped header parsing, trailer parsing is not supported since we don't know what trailers might be (to our knowledge, nobody uses trailers anyways)
2011-06-13http: document reasoning for memcpy in filter_body
copy-on-write behavior doesn't help you if your common use case triggers copies.
2011-06-13http: rename variables in filter_body implementation
Makes things easier-to-understand since it's based on memcpy()
2011-05-23http: call rb_str_modify before rb_str_resize
Ruby 1.9.3dev (trunk) requires it if the string size is unchanged.
2011-05-23strip trailing and leading linear whitespace in headers
RFC 2616, section 4.2: > The field-content does not include any leading or trailing LWS: > linear white space occurring before the first non-whitespace > character of the field-value or after the last non-whitespace > character of the field-value. Such leading or trailing LWS MAY be > removed without changing the semantics of the field value. Any LWS > that occurs between field-content MAY be replaced with a single SP > before interpreting the field value or forwarding the message > downstream.
2011-05-05http_parser: add max_header_len accessor
Rainbows! wants to be able to lower this eventually...
2011-05-04http_parser: new add_parse method
Combines the following sequence: http_parser.buf << socket.readpartial(0x4000) http_parser.parse Into: http_parser.add_parse(socket.readpartial(0x4000)) It was too damn redundant otherwise...
2011-05-04return 414 for URI length violations
There's an HTTP status code allocated for it in <http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes>, so return that instead of 400.
2011-02-02http: parser handles IPv6 bracketed IP hostnames
Just in case we have people that don't use DNS, we can support folks who enter ugly IPv6 addresses... IPv6 uses brackets around the address to avoid confusing the colons used in the address with the colon used to denote the TCP port number in URIs.
2011-01-05http_parser: add clear method, deprecate reset
But allows small optimizations to be made to avoid constant/instance variable lookups later :)
2011-01-04http_response: implement httpdate in C
This can return a static string and be significantly faster as it reduces object allocations and Ruby method calls for the fastest websites that serve thousands of requests a second. It assumes the Ruby runtime is single-threaded, but that is the case of Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 and also what Unicorn is all about. This change is safe for Rainbows! under 1.8 and 1.9.
2010-12-26http: #keepalive? and #headers? work after #next?
We need to preserve our internal flags and only clear them on HttpParser#parse. This allows the async concurrency models in Rainbows! to work properly.
2010-12-21http: hook up "trust_x_forwarded" to configurator
More config bloat, sadly this is necessary for Rainbows! :<
2010-12-20http: allow ignoring X-Forwarded-* for url_scheme
Evil clients may be exposed to the Unicorn parser via Rainbows!, so we'll allow people to turn off blindly trusting certain X-Forwarded* headers for "rack.url_scheme" and rely on middleware to handle it.
2010-12-20http: refactor finalize_header function
rack.url_scheme handling and SERVER_{NAME,PORT} handling each deserve their own functions.
2010-12-20http: update setting of "https" for rack.url_scheme
The first value of X-Forwarded-Proto in rack.url_scheme should be used as it can be chained. This header can be set multiple times via different proxies in the chain, but consider the first one to be valid. Additionally, respect X-Forwarded-SSL as it may be passed with the "on" flag instead of X-Forwarded-Proto. ref: rack commit 85ca454e6143a3081d90e4546ccad602a4c3ad2e and 35bb5ba6746b5d346de9202c004cc926039650c7
2010-12-20http: support keepalive_requests directive
This limits the number of keepalive requests of a single connection to prevent a single client from monopolizing server resources. On multi-process servers (e.g. Rainbows!) with many keepalive clients per worker process, this can force a client to reconnect and increase its chances of being accepted on a less-busy worker process. This directive is named after the nginx directive which is identical in function.
2010-12-19http: delay clearing env on HttpParser#next?
This allows apps/middlewares on Rainbows! that rely on env in the response_body#close to hold onto the env.
2010-11-07tee_input: switch to simpler API for parsing trailers
Not that anybody uses trailers extensively, but it's good to know it's there.
2010-11-06http_parser: add HttpParser#next? method
An easy combination of the existing HttpParser#keepalive? and HttpParser#reset methods, this makes it easier to implement persistence.
2010-11-06enable HTTP keepalive support for all methods
Yes, this means even POST/PUT bodies may be kept alive, but only if the body (and trailers) are fully-consumed.
2010-10-07http: fix behavior with pipelined requests
We cannot clear the buffer between requests because clients may send multiple requests that get taken in one read()/recv() call.
2010-10-07http: remove unnecessary rb_str_update() calls
Rubinius no longer uses it, and it conflicts with a public method in MRI.
2010-10-07http: allow this to be used as a request object
The parser and request object become one and the same, since the parser lives for the lifetime of the request.
2010-10-05http: raise empty backtrace for HttpParserError
It's expensive to generate a backtrace and this exception is only triggered by bad clients. So make it harder for them to DoS us by sending bad requests.
2010-06-24http: avoid (re-)declaring the Unicorn module
It makes for messy documentation.
2010-06-08http: move Version: header check into a less common path
Since the "Version" header is uncommon and never hits our optimized case, we don't need to check for it in the common case.
2010-06-08http: ignore Version: header if explicitly set by client
When Unicorn receives a request with a "Version" header, the HttpParser transforms it into "HTTP_VERSION". After that tries to add it to the request hash which already contains a "HTTP_VERSION" key with the actual http version of the request. So it tries to append the new value separated by a comma. But since the http version is a freezed constant, the TypeError exception is raised. According to the HTTP RFC (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html#sec7.1) a "Version" header is valid. However, it's not supported in rack, since rack has a HTTP_VERSION env variable for the http version. So I think the easiest way to deal with this problem is to just ignore the header since it is extremely unusual. We were getting it from a crappy bot. ref: http://mid.gmane.org/AANLkTimuGgcwNAMcVZdViFWdF-UcW_RGyZAue7phUXps@mail.gmail.com Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2010-04-26http: pedantic fix for trailer-less chunked requests
HTTP requests without trailers still need a CRLF after the last chunk, that is: it must end as: "0\r\n\r\n", not "0\r\n". So we'll always pretend there are trailers to parse for the sake of TeeInput. This is mostly a pedantic fix, as the two bytes in the socket buffer are unlikely to trigger protocol errors.
2010-02-18http: const correctness fixes
Not fun, but maybe this can help us spot _real_ problems more easily in the future.
2010-02-18http: cleanup globals and ABI namespace
* init_globals() is a static function, avoid conflicting with any potential libraries out there... * mUnicorn and cHttpParser do not need to be static globals they're not used outside of Init_unicorn_http().
2010-02-18http: avoid signedness warnings
We never come close to the signed limits anywhere, so it should be safe either way, but make paranoid compiler settings less noisy if possible.
2010-02-13http: fix memory leak exposed in concurrent servers
First off, this memory leak DOES NOT affect Unicorn itself. Unicorn allocates the HttpParser once and always reuses it in every sequential request. This leak affects applications which repeatedly allocate a new HTTP parser. Thus this bug affects _all_ deployments of Rainbows! and Zbatery. These servers allocate a new parser for every client connection. I misread the Data_Make_Struct/Data_Wrap_Struct documentation and ended up passing NULL as the "free" argument instead of -1, causing the memory to never be freed. From README.EXT in the MRI source which I misread: > The free argument is the function to free the pointer > allocation. If this is -1, the pointer will be just freed. > The functions mark and free will be called from garbage > collector.
2009-11-04http: allow headers/trailers to be written byte-wise
This allows clients to trickle headers and trailers. While Unicorn itself does not support slow clients for many reasons, this affects servers that depend on our parser like Rainbows!. This actually does affect Unicorn when handling trailers, but HTTP trailers are very ever rarely used in requests. Fortunately this stupid bug does not seem able to trigger out-of-bounds conditions.
2009-09-15http: cleanup assertion for memoized header strings
assert_frozen() should not be checking what type of object it is, instead put an extra assertion in there to ensure we have a string.
2009-09-14http: create a new string buffer on empty values
Since empty values on one line can be a heuristic to determine future lines are continuation lines (and a as a result, a decently long header), pre-allocate a string buffer just in case. This is to workaround what appears to be bug in the Rubinius C API, but it could be considered (intended) DWIM behavior, too...
2009-09-14http: use rb_str_{update,flush} if available
Rubinius supports these functions as of 039091066244cfcf483310b86b5c4989aaa6302b This allows the test_http_parser_ng.rb test to run under Rubinius db612aa62cad9e5cc41a4a4be645642362029d20
2009-09-14http: support Rubies without the OBJ_FROZEN macro
Rubinius does not support frozen objects, maybe other Rubies lack support for it as well.
2009-09-06http: ignore Host: continuation lines with absolute URIs
This probably doesn't affect anyone with HTTP/1.1, but future versions of HTTP will use absolute URIs and maybe we'll eventually get clients that (mistakenly) send us Host: headers along with absolute URIs.
2009-09-06http: rb_gc_mark already ignores immediates
No need to add an extra check, even if it does avoid a function call.
2009-09-06http: NIL_P(var) instead of var == Qnil
This should be more inline with Ruby standards/coding style and probably more future-proof, as well.
2009-09-06http: verbose assertions
This makes it easier for bug reporters to tell us what's wrong in case line numbers change.
2009-09-06http: extra assertion when advancing p manually
Just in case, it'll be easier to track down if bugs pop up.