openssl/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod
Dr. David von Oheimb 29f178bddf Generalize the HTTP client so far implemented mostly in crypto/ocsp/ocsp_ht.c
The new client has become an independent libcrpyto module in crypto/http/ and
* can handle any types of requests and responses (ASN.1-encoded and plain)
* does not include potentially busy loops when waiting for responses but
* makes use of a new timeout mechanism integrated with socket-based BIO
* supports the use of HTTP proxies and TLS, including HTTPS over proxies
* supports HTTP redirection via codes 301 and 302 for GET requests
* returns more useful diagnostics in various error situations
Also adapts - and strongly simplifies - hitherto uses of HTTP in crypto/ocsp/,
crypto/x509/x_all.c, apps/lib/apps.c, and apps/{ocsp,s_client,s_server}.c

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: David von Oheimb <david.von.oheimb@siemens.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10667)
2020-02-10 16:49:37 +01:00

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=pod
=head1 NAME
OSSL_HTTP_get,
OSSL_HTTP_get_asn1,
OSSL_HTTP_post_asn1,
OSSL_HTTP_transfer,
OSSL_HTTP_bio_cb_t,
OSSL_HTTP_proxy_connect,
OSSL_HTTP_parse_url
- http client functions
=head1 SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/http.h>
typedef BIO *(*OSSL_HTTP_bio_cb_t)(BIO *bio, void *arg,
int connect, int detail);
BIO *OSSL_HTTP_get(const char *url, const char *proxy, const char *proxy_port,
BIO *bio, BIO *rbio,
OSSL_HTTP_bio_cb_t bio_update_fn, void *arg,
const STACK_OF(CONF_VALUE) *headers,
int maxline, unsigned long max_resp_len, int timeout,
const char *expected_content_type, int expect_asn1);
ASN1_VALUE *OSSL_HTTP_get_asn1(const char *url,
const char *proxy, const char *proxy_port,
BIO *bio, BIO *rbio,
OSSL_HTTP_bio_cb_t bio_update_fn, void *arg,
const STACK_OF(CONF_VALUE) *headers,
int maxline, unsigned long max_resp_len,
int timeout, const char *expected_content_type,
const ASN1_ITEM *it);
ASN1_VALUE *OSSL_HTTP_post_asn1(const char *server, const char *port,
const char *path, int use_ssl,
const char *proxy, const char *proxy_port,
BIO *bio, BIO *rbio,
OSSL_HTTP_bio_cb_t bio_update_fn, void *arg,
const STACK_OF(CONF_VALUE) *headers,
const char *content_type,
ASN1_VALUE *req, const ASN1_ITEM *req_it,
int maxline, unsigned long max_resp_len,
int timeout, const char *expected_ct,
const ASN1_ITEM *rsp_it);
BIO *OSSL_HTTP_transfer(const char *server, const char *port, const char *path,
int use_ssl, const char *proxy, const char *proxy_port,
BIO *bio, BIO *rbio,
OSSL_HTTP_bio_cb_t bio_update_fn, void *arg,
const STACK_OF(CONF_VALUE) *headers,
const char *content_type, BIO *req_mem,
int maxline, unsigned long max_resp_len, int timeout,
const char *expected_ct, int expect_asn1,
char **redirection_url);
int OSSL_HTTP_proxy_connect(BIO *bio, const char *server, const char *port,
const char *proxyuser, const char *proxypass,
int timeout, BIO *bio_err, const char *prog);
int OSSL_HTTP_parse_url(const char *url, char **phost, char **pport,
char **ppath, int *pssl);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
OSSL_HTTP_get() uses HTTP GET to obtain data (of any type) from the given B<url>
and returns it as a memory BIO.
OSSL_HTTP_get_asn1() uses HTTP GET to obtain an ASN.1-encoded value
(e.g., an X.509 certificate) with the expected structure specified by B<it>
(e.g., I<ASN1_ITEM_rptr(X509)>) from the given B<url>
and returns it on success as a pointer to I<ASN1_VALUE>.
OSSL_HTTP_post_asn1() uses the HTTP POST method to send a request B<req>
with the ASN.1 structure defined in B<req_it> and the given B<content_type> to
the given B<server> and optional B<port> and B<path>, which defaults to "/".
If B<use_ssl> is nonzero a TLS connection is requested and the B<bio_update_fn>
parameter, described below, must be provided.
The optional list B<headers> may contain additional custom HTTP header lines.
The expected structure of the response is specified by B<rsp_it>.
On success it returns the response as a pointer to B<ASN1_VALUE>.
OSSL_HTTP_transfer() exchanges an HTTP request and response with
the given B<server> and optional B<port> and B<path>, which defaults to "/".
If B<use_ssl> is nonzero a TLS connection is requested and the B<bio_update_fn>
parameter, described below, must be provided.
If B<req_mem> is NULL it uses the HTTP GET method, else it uses HTTP POST to
send a request with the contents of the memory BIO and optional B<content_type>.
The optional list B<headers> may contain additional custom HTTP header lines.
If B<req_mem> is NULL (i.e., the HTTP method is GET) and B<redirection_url>
is not NULL the latter pointer is used to provide any new location that
the server may return with HTTP code 301 (MOVED_PERMANENTLY) or 302 (FOUND).
In this case the caller is responsible for deallocating this URL with
L<OPENSSL_free(3)>.
The above functions have the following parameters in common.
If the B<proxy> parameter is not NULL the HTTP client functions connect
via the given proxy and the optionally given B<proxy_port>.
Proxying plain HTTP is supported directly,
while using a proxy for HTTPS connections requires a suitable callback function
such as OSSL_HTTP_proxy_connect(), described below.
Typically the B<bio> and B<rbio> parameters are NULL and the client creates a
network BIO internally for connecting to the given server and port (optionally
via a proxy and its port), and uses it for exchanging the request and response.
If B<bio> is given and B<rbio> is NULL then the client uses this BIO instead.
If both B<bio> and B<rbio> are given (which may be memory BIOs for instance)
then no explicit connection is attempted,
B<bio> is used for writing the request, and B<rbio> for reading the response.
As soon as the client has flushed B<bio> the server must be ready to provide
a response or indicate a waiting condition via B<rbio>.
The B<maxline> parameter specifies the response header maximum line length,
where 0 indicates the default value, which currently is 4k.
The B<max_resp_len> parameter specifies the maximum response length,
where 0 indicates the default value, which currently is 100k.
An ASN.1-encoded response is expected by OSSL_HTTP_get_asn1() and
OSSL_HTTP_post_asn1(), while for OSSL_HTTP_get() or OSSL_HTTP_transfer()
this is only the case if the B<expect_asn1> parameter is nonzero.
If the response header contains one or more Content-Length header lines and/or
an ASN.1-encoded response is expected, which should include a total length,
the length indications received are checked for consistency
and for not exceeding the maximum response length.
If the parameter B<expected_content_type> (or B<expected_ct>, respectively)
is not NULL then the HTTP client checks that the given content type string
is included in the HTTP header of the response and returns an error if not.
If the B<timeout> parameter is > 0 this indicates the maximum number of seconds
to wait until the transfer is complete.
A value of 0 enables waiting indefinitely,
while a value < 0 immediately leads to a timeout condition.
The optional parameter B<bio_update_fn> with its optional argument B<arg> may
be used to modify the connection BIO used by the HTTP client (and cannot be
used when both B<bio> and B<rbio> are given).
B<bio_update_fn> is a BIO connect/disconnect callback function with prototype
BIO *(*OSSL_HTTP_bio_cb_t)(BIO *bio, void *arg, int connect, int detail)
The callback may modify the HTTP BIO provided in the B<bio> argument,
whereby it may make use of a custom defined argument B<arg>,
which may for instance refer to an I<SSL_CTX> structure.
During connection establishment, just after calling BIO_connect_retry(),
the function is invoked with the B<connect> argument being 1 and the B<detail>
argument being 1 if HTTPS is requested, i.e., SSL/TLS should be enabled.
On disconnect B<connect> is 0 and B<detail> is 1 if no error occurred, else 0.
For instance, on connect the function may prepend a TLS BIO to implement HTTPS;
after disconnect it may do some diagnostic output and/or specific cleanup.
The function should return NULL to indicate failure.
Here is a simple example that supports TLS connections (but not via a proxy):
BIO *http_tls_cb(BIO *hbio, void *arg, int connect, int detail)
{
SSL_CTX *ctx = (SSL_CTX *)arg;
if (connect && detail) { /* connecting with TLS */
BIO *sbio = BIO_new_ssl(ctx, 1);
hbio = sbio != NULL ? BIO_push(sbio, hbio) : NULL;
} else if (!connect && !detail) { /* disconnecting after error */
/* optionally add diagnostics here */
}
return hbio;
}
After disconnect the modified BIO will be deallocated using BIO_free_all().
OSSL_HTTP_proxy_connect() may be used by an above BIO connect callback function
to set up an SSL/TLS connection via an HTTP proxy.
It promotes the given BIO B<bio> representing a connection
pre-established with a TLS proxy using the HTTP CONNECT method,
optionally using proxy client credentials B<proxyuser> and B<proxypass>,
to connect with TLS protection ultimately to B<server> and B<port>.
The B<timeout> parameter is used as described above.
Since this function is typically called by appplications such as
L<openssl-s_client(1)> it uses the B<bio_err> and B<prog> parameters (unless
NULL) to print additional diagnostic information in a user-oriented way.
OSSL_HTTP_parse_url() parses its input string B<url> as a URL and splits it up
into host, port and path components and a flag whether it begins with 'https'.
The host component may be a DNS name or an IPv4 or an IPv6 address.
The port component is optional and defaults to "443" for HTTPS, else "80".
The path component is also optional and defaults to "/".
As far as the result pointer arguments are not NULL it assigns via
them copies of the respective string components.
The strings returned this way must be deallocated by the caller using
L<OPENSSL_free(3)> unless they are NULL, which is their default value on error.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
OSSL_HTTP_get(), OSSL_HTTP_get_asn1(), OSSL_HTTP_post_asn1(), and
OSSL_HTTP_transfer() return on success the data received via HTTP, else NULL.
Error conditions include connection/transfer timeout, parse errors, etc.
OSSL_HTTP_proxy_connect() and OSSL_HTTP_parse_url()
return 1 on success, 0 on error.
=head1 HISTORY
OSSL_HTTP_get(), OSSL_HTTP_get_asn1(), OSSL_HTTP_post_asn1(),
OSSL_HTTP_proxy_connect(), and OSSL_HTTP_parse_url() were added in OpenSSL 3.0.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2019-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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