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2017-12-13report transient errors as transient errorsDavid Kalnischkies
The Fail method for acquire methods has a boolean parameter indicating the transient-nature of a reported error. The problem with this is that Fail is called very late at a point where it is no longer easily identifiable if an error is indeed transient or not, so some calls were and some weren't and the acquire system would later mostly ignore the transient flag and guess by using the FailReason instead. Introducing a tri-state enum we can pass the information about fatal or transient errors through the callstack to generate the correct fails.
2017-12-13mark some 500 HTTP codes as transient acquire errorsDavid Kalnischkies
If retries are enabled only transient errors are retried, which are very few errors. At least for some HTTP codes it could be beneficial to retry them through so adding them seems like a good idea if only to be more consistent in what we report.
2017-12-13avoid some useless casts reported by -Wuseless-castDavid Kalnischkies
The casts are useless, but the reports show some where we can actually improve the code by replacing them with better alternatives like converting whatever int type into a string instead of casting to a specific one which might in the future be too small. Reported-By: gcc -Wuseless-cast
2017-10-22methods/basehttp.cc: Remove proxy autodetect debugging codeJulian Andres Klode
This was a left over from the autodetect move. Gbp-Dch: ignore
2017-10-22Run Proxy-Auto-Detect script from main processJulian Andres Klode
This avoids running the Proxy-Auto-Detect script inside the untrusted (well, less trusted for now) sandbox. This will allow us to restrict the http method from fork()ing or exec()ing via seccomp.
2017-07-26allow the auth.conf to be root:root ownedDavid Kalnischkies
Opening the file before we drop privileges in the methods allows us to avoid chowning in the acquire main process which can apply to the wrong file (imagine Binary scoped settings) and surprises users as their permission setup is overridden. There are no security benefits as the file is open, so an evil method could as before read the contents of the file, but it isn't worse than before and we avoid permission problems in this setup.
2017-07-26lookup login info for proxies in auth.confDavid Kalnischkies
On HTTP Connect we since recently look into the auth.conf file for login information, so we should really look for all proxies into the file as the argument is the same as for sources entries and it is easier to document (especially as the manpage already mentions it as supported).
2017-07-26reimplement and document auth.confDavid Kalnischkies
We have support for an netrc-like auth.conf file since 0.7.25 (closing 518473), but it was never documented in apt that it even exists and netrc seems to have fallen out of usage as a manpage for it no longer exists making the feature even more arcane. On top of that the code was a bit of a mess (as it is written in c-style) and as a result the matching of machine tokens to URIs also a bit strange by checking for less specific matches (= without path) first. We now do a single pass over the stanzas. In practice early adopters of the undocumented implementation will not really notice the differences and the 'new' behaviour is simpler to document and more usual for an apt user. Closes: #811181
2017-07-26fail early in http if server answer is too small as wellDavid Kalnischkies
Failing on too much data is good, but we can do better by checking for exact filesizes as we know with hashsums how large a file should be, so if we get a file which has a size we do not expect we can drop it directly, regardless of if the file is larger or smaller than what we expect which should catch most cases which would end up as hashsum errors later now a lot sooner.
2017-07-26don't try to parse all fields starting with HTTP as status-lineDavid Kalnischkies
It is highly unlikely to encounter fields which start with HTTP in practice, but we should really be a bit more restrictive here.
2017-07-12Reformat and sort all includes with clang-formatJulian Andres Klode
This makes it easier to see which headers includes what. The changes were done by running git grep -l '#\s*include' \ | grep -E '.(cc|h)$' \ | xargs sed -i -E 's/(^\s*)#(\s*)include/\1#\2 include/' To modify all include lines by adding a space, and then running ./git-clang-format.sh.
2017-07-01http: A response with Content-Length: 0 has no contentJulian Andres Klode
APT considered any response with a Content-Length to have a body, even if the value of the header was 0. A 0 length body however, is equal to no body.
2017-06-26deal with 3xx httpcodes as required by HTTP/1.1 specDavid Kalnischkies
An unknown code should be handled the same as the x00 code of this group, but for redirections we used to treat 300 (and a few others) as an error while unknown codes were considered redirections. Instead we check now explicitly for the redirection codes we support for redirecting (and add the 308 defined in RFC 7538) to avoid future problems if new 3xx codes are added expecting certain behaviours. Potentially strange would have been e.g. "305 Use Proxy" sending a Location for the proxy to use – which wouldn't have worked and resulted in an error anyhow, but probably confused users in the process.
2017-01-24basehttp: Only read Content-Range on 416 and 206 responsesJulian Andres Klode
This fixes issues with sourceforge where the redirector includes such a Content-Range in a 302 redirect. Since we do not really know what file is meant in a redirect, let's just ignore it for all responses other than 416 and 206. Maybe we should also get rid of the other errors, and just ignore the field in those cases as well? LP: #1657567
2017-01-19fix various typos reported by spellintianDavid Kalnischkies
Most of them in (old) code comments. The two instances of user visible string changes the po files of the manpages are fixed up as well. Gbp-Dch: Ignore Reported-By: spellintian
2016-12-31rename ServerMethod to BaseHttpMethodDavid Kalnischkies
This 'method' is the abstract base for http and https and should as such be called out like this rather using an easily confused name. Gbp-Dch: Ignore