A filemap is a way of telling Kore to serve files from a directory
much like a traditional webserver can do.
Kore filemaps only handles files. Kore does not generate directory
indexes or deal with non-regular files.
The way files are sent to a client differs a bit per platform and
build options:
default:
- mmap() backed file transfer due to TLS.
NOTLS=1
- sendfile() under FreeBSD, macOS and Linux.
- mmap() backed file for OpenBSD.
The opened file descriptors/mmap'd regions are cached and reused when
appropriate. If a file is no longer in use it will be closed and evicted
from the cache after 30 seconds.
New API's are available allowing developers to use these facilities via:
void net_send_fileref(struct connection *, struct kore_fileref *);
void http_response_fileref(struct http_request *, struct kore_fileref *);
Kore will attempt to match media types based on file extensions. A few
default types are built-in. Others can be added via the new "http_media_type"
configuration directive.
This option allows a user to finetune the number of milliseconds
a worker process will max spend inside the http_process() loop.
By default this is 10ms.
The HTTP layer used to make a copy of each incoming header and its
value for a request. Stop doing that and make HTTP headers zero-copy
all across the board.
This change comes with some api function changes, notably the
http_request_header() function which now takes a const char ** rather
than a char ** out pointer.
This commit also constifies several members of http_request, beware.
Additional rework how the worker processes deal with the accept lock.
Before:
if a worker held the accept lock and it accepted a new connection
it would release the lock for others and back off for 500ms before
attempting to grab the lock again.
This approach worked but under high load this starts becoming obvious.
Now:
- workers not holding the accept lock and not having any connections
will wait less long before returning from kore_platform_event_wait().
- workers not holding the accept lock will no longer blindly wait
an arbitrary amount in kore_platform_event_wait() but will look
at how long until the next lock grab is and base their timeout
on that.
- if a worker its next_lock timeout is up and failed to grab the
lock it will try again in half the time again.
- the worker process holding the lock will when releasing the lock
double check if it still has space for newer connections, if it does
it will keep the lock until it is full. This prevents the lock from
bouncing between several non busy worker processes all the time.
Additional fixes:
- Reduce the number of times we check the timeout list, only do it twice
per second rather then every event tick.
- Fix solo worker count for TLS (we actually hold two processes, not one).
- Make sure we don't accidentally miscalculate the idle time causing new
connections under heavy load to instantly drop.
- Swap from gettimeofday() to clock_gettime() now that MacOS caught up.
Before http_request_limit just constrained the number of HTTP
requests we'd deal with in a single http_process_requests() call.
But it should really mean how many maximum HTTP requests are allowed
to be alive in the worker process before we start sending 503s back.
While here, drop the lock timeout for a worker to 100ms down from 500ms
and do not allow a worker to grab the accept lock if their HTTP request
queue is full.
This makes things much more pleasant memory wise as the http_request_pool
won't just grow over time.
Before params get would mean querystring and anything else
would just count toward a www-encoded body.
Now you can prefix the params block with "qs" indicating that
those configured parameters are allowed to occur in the query
string regardless of the method used.
This means you can do something like:
params qs:post /uri {
...
}
to specify what the allowed parameters are in the querystring for
a POST request towards /uri.
inspired by and properly fixes#205.
When the pgsql layer was introduced it was tightly coupled with the
http layer in order to make async work fluently.
The time has come to split these up and follow the same method we
used for tasks, allowing either http requests to be tied to a pgsql
data structure or a simple callback function.
This also reworks the internal queueing of pgsql requests until
connections to the db are available again.
The following API functions were changes:
- kore_pgsql_query_init() -> kore_pgsql_setup()
no longer takes an http_request parameter.
- NEW kore_pgsql_init()
must be called before operating on an kore_pgsql structure.
- NEW kore_pgsql_bind_request()
binds an http_request to a kore_pgsql data structure.
- NEW kore_pgsql_bind_callback()
binds a callback to a kore_pgsql data structure.
With all of this you can now build kore with PGSQL=1 NOHTTP=1.
The pgsql/ example has been updated to reflect these changes and
new features.
Also let this function reset offset and lengths for http_body_read().
Make sure of this function in the python code so req.body can be called
multiple times in succession.
The only reason you would want to directly modify the cookie
after creating it should be to unset the HTTPONLY or SECURE flags
if that is what you *really* want to do.
Change http_response_cookie() to take all required parameters instead
of having to marshall those in yourself after.
Now you set a sane default cookie in one shot:
http_response_cookie(req, "key", "value", "/", 0, -1, NULL);
Which would create a session cookie key=value for / under the current domain.
We now default to httponly & secure for newly created cookies.
This should've been the default all along.
The http_response_cookie() no longer returns a pointer to http_cookie
but rather takes it as a parameter and will populate the pointer with
the newly created http_cookie if not NULL.
Additionally http_response_cookie() automatically sets the domain
based on the http_request passed into the function.
Having the create, build, run tools baked into the kore binary
made things harder then they had to be for multiple projects with
each different build flavors.
So move away this functionality into a new "kodev" (name may change)
binary that is installed next to kore.
The new build tools will automatically pick up the correct flavors
the kore binary it points to is installed with. Or for single builds
what flavors where enabled.
The new tool also will honor looking into PREFIX for the kore binary
when doing a `kodev run`.
Additionally add a new command "info" that shows some basic info
about your project and how it will be built. For example it will
show you the flavors of the kore binary installed on the system
or the flavors you configured for a single binary build.
Obligitory, hacking on a plane comment.
- split up writing of cookies into its own function.
- turn maxage into a signed int and use -1 for it not being set.
- lots of style fixes
- remove HTTP_COOKIE_DEFAULT, just pass 0 if you don't want flags.
This commit adds the ability to use python "await" to suspend
execution of your page handler until the query sent to postgresql
has returned a result.
This is built upon the existing asynchrous query framework Kore had.
With this you can now write stuff like:
async def page(req):
result = await req.pgsql("db", "SELECT name FROM table");
req.response(200, json.dumps(result).encode("utf-8"))
The above code will fire off a query and suspend itself so Kore can
take care of business as usual until the query is successful at which
point Kore will jump back into the handler and resume.
This does not use threading, it's purely based on Python's excellent
coroutines and generators and Kore its built-in pgsql support.
These functions are created by the cli tool when building
and follow the naming format: asset_serve_<name>_<ext>().
Those serving functions can be used directly in handlers and
callthrough to a http_serveable() function that uses the SHA1
of the asset as its ETag and automatically checks for if-none-match.
Joris Vink
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Stanislav Yudin
Yorick de Wid