Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 17:01:28 +0000 (UTC) From: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r351573 - head/lib/libfetch Message-ID: <201908281701.x7SH1SPn050508@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: markj Date: Wed Aug 28 17:01:28 2019 New Revision: 351573 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/351573 Log: Document fetchReqHTTP(). Submitted by: Farhan Khan <khanzf@gmail.com> Reviewed by: 0mp MFC after: 1 week Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18788 Modified: head/lib/libfetch/Makefile head/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 head/lib/libfetch/http.c Modified: head/lib/libfetch/Makefile ============================================================================== --- head/lib/libfetch/Makefile Wed Aug 28 16:18:23 2019 (r351572) +++ head/lib/libfetch/Makefile Wed Aug 28 17:01:28 2019 (r351573) @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ MLINKS+= fetch.3 fetchPutFTP.3 MLINKS+= fetch.3 fetchPutFile.3 MLINKS+= fetch.3 fetchPutHTTP.3 MLINKS+= fetch.3 fetchPutURL.3 +MLINKS+= fetch.3 fetchReqHTTP.3 MLINKS+= fetch.3 fetchStat.3 MLINKS+= fetch.3 fetchStatFTP.3 MLINKS+= fetch.3 fetchStatFile.3 Modified: head/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 ============================================================================== --- head/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 Wed Aug 28 16:18:23 2019 (r351572) +++ head/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 Wed Aug 28 17:01:28 2019 (r351573) @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd March 18, 2016 +.Dd August 28, 2019 .Dt FETCH 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ .Nm fetchPutHTTP , .Nm fetchStatHTTP , .Nm fetchListHTTP , +.Nm fetchReqHTTP , .Nm fetchXGetFTP , .Nm fetchGetFTP , .Nm fetchPutFTP , @@ -112,6 +113,8 @@ .Ft struct url_ent * .Fn fetchListHTTP "struct url *u" "const char *flags" .Ft FILE * +.Fn fetchReqHTTP "struct url *u" "const char *method" "const char *flags" "const char *content_type" "const char *body" +.Ft FILE * .Fn fetchXGetFTP "struct url *u" "struct url_stat *us" "const char *flags" .Ft FILE * .Fn fetchGetFTP "struct url *u" "const char *flags" @@ -355,9 +358,10 @@ and password "anonymous@<hostname>". .Sh HTTP SCHEME The .Fn fetchXGetHTTP , -.Fn fetchGetHTTP -and +.Fn fetchGetHTTP , .Fn fetchPutHTTP +and +.Fn fetchReqHTTP functions implement the HTTP/1.1 protocol. With a little luck, there is even a chance that they comply with RFC2616 and RFC2617. @@ -386,6 +390,18 @@ will send a conditional .Li If-Modified-Since HTTP header to only fetch the content if it is newer than .Va ims_time . +.Pp +The function +.Fn fetchReqHTTP +can be used to make requests with an arbitrary HTTP verb, +including POST, DELETE, CONNECT, OPTIONS, TRACE or PATCH. +This can be done by setting the argument +.Fa method +to the intended verb, such as +.Ql POST , +and +.Fa body +to the content. .Pp Since there seems to be no good way of implementing the HTTP PUT method in a manner consistent with the rest of the Modified: head/lib/libfetch/http.c ============================================================================== --- head/lib/libfetch/http.c Wed Aug 28 16:18:23 2019 (r351572) +++ head/lib/libfetch/http.c Wed Aug 28 17:01:28 2019 (r351573) @@ -2093,6 +2093,9 @@ fetchListHTTP(struct url *url __unused, const char *fl return (NULL); } +/* + * Arbitrary HTTP verb and content requests + */ FILE * fetchReqHTTP(struct url *URL, const char *method, const char *flags, const char *content_type, const char *body)
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