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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+ * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+ * are met:
+ * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+ * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+ * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+ * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+ * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+ * 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
+ * derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
+ *
+ * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
+ * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
+ * OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
+ * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
+ * INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
+ * NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
+ * DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
+ * THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+ * (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
+ * THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+ */
+#ifndef _EVHTTP_H_
+#define _EVHTTP_H_
+
+#include <event.h>
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+#ifdef WIN32
+#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
+#include <winsock2.h>
+#include <windows.h>
+#undef WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
+#endif
+
+/** @file evhttp.h
+ *
+ * Basic support for HTTP serving.
+ *
+ * As libevent is a library for dealing with event notification and most
+ * interesting applications are networked today, I have often found the
+ * need to write HTTP code. The following prototypes and definitions provide
+ * an application with a minimal interface for making HTTP requests and for
+ * creating a very simple HTTP server.
+ */
+
+/* Response codes */
+#define HTTP_OK 200
+#define HTTP_NOCONTENT 204
+#define HTTP_MOVEPERM 301
+#define HTTP_MOVETEMP 302
+#define HTTP_NOTMODIFIED 304
+#define HTTP_BADREQUEST 400
+#define HTTP_NOTFOUND 404
+#define HTTP_SERVUNAVAIL 503
+
+struct evhttp;
+struct evhttp_request;
+struct evkeyvalq;
+
+/** Create a new HTTP server
+ *
+ * @param base (optional) the event base to receive the HTTP events
+ * @return a pointer to a newly initialized evhttp server structure
+ */
+struct evhttp *evhttp_new(struct event_base *base);
+
+/**
+ * Binds an HTTP server on the specified address and port.
+ *
+ * Can be called multiple times to bind the same http server
+ * to multiple different ports.
+ *
+ * @param http a pointer to an evhttp object
+ * @param address a string containing the IP address to listen(2) on
+ * @param port the port number to listen on
+ * @return a newly allocated evhttp struct
+ * @see evhttp_free()
+ */
+int evhttp_bind_socket(struct evhttp *http, const char *address, u_short port);
+
+/**
+ * Makes an HTTP server accept connections on the specified socket
+ *
+ * This may be useful to create a socket and then fork multiple instances
+ * of an http server, or when a socket has been communicated via file
+ * descriptor passing in situations where an http servers does not have
+ * permissions to bind to a low-numbered port.
+ *
+ * Can be called multiple times to have the http server listen to
+ * multiple different sockets.
+ *
+ * @param http a pointer to an evhttp object
+ * @param fd a socket fd that is ready for accepting connections
+ * @return 0 on success, -1 on failure.
+ * @see evhttp_free(), evhttp_bind_socket()
+ */
+int evhttp_accept_socket(struct evhttp *http, int fd);
+
+/**
+ * Free the previously created HTTP server.
+ *
+ * Works only if no requests are currently being served.
+ *
+ * @param http the evhttp server object to be freed
+ * @see evhttp_start()
+ */
+void evhttp_free(struct evhttp* http);
+
+/** Set a callback for a specified URI */
+void evhttp_set_cb(struct evhttp *, const char *,
+ void (*)(struct evhttp_request *, void *), void *);
+
+/** Removes the callback for a specified URI */
+int evhttp_del_cb(struct evhttp *, const char *);
+
+/** Set a callback for all requests that are not caught by specific callbacks
+ */
+void evhttp_set_gencb(struct evhttp *,
+ void (*)(struct evhttp_request *, void *), void *);
+
+/**
+ * Set the timeout for an HTTP request.
+ *
+ * @param http an evhttp object
+ * @param timeout_in_secs the timeout, in seconds
+ */
+void evhttp_set_timeout(struct evhttp *, int timeout_in_secs);
+
+/* Request/Response functionality */
+
+/**
+ * Send an HTML error message to the client.
+ *
+ * @param req a request object
+ * @param error the HTTP error code
+ * @param reason a brief explanation of the error
+ */
+void evhttp_send_error(struct evhttp_request *req, int error,
+ const char *reason);
+
+/**
+ * Send an HTML reply to the client.
+ *
+ * @param req a request object
+ * @param code the HTTP response code to send
+ * @param reason a brief message to send with the response code
+ * @param databuf the body of the response
+ */
+void evhttp_send_reply(struct evhttp_request *req, int code,
+ const char *reason, struct evbuffer *databuf);
+
+/* Low-level response interface, for streaming/chunked replies */
+void evhttp_send_reply_start(struct evhttp_request *, int, const char *);
+void evhttp_send_reply_chunk(struct evhttp_request *, struct evbuffer *);
+void evhttp_send_reply_end(struct evhttp_request *);
+
+/**
+ * Start an HTTP server on the specified address and port
+ *
+ * DEPRECATED: it does not allow an event base to be specified
+ *
+ * @param address the address to which the HTTP server should be bound
+ * @param port the port number on which the HTTP server should listen
+ * @return an struct evhttp object
+ */
+struct evhttp *evhttp_start(const char *address, u_short port);
+
+/*
+ * Interfaces for making requests
+ */
+enum evhttp_cmd_type { EVHTTP_REQ_GET, EVHTTP_REQ_POST, EVHTTP_REQ_HEAD };
+
+enum evhttp_request_kind { EVHTTP_REQUEST, EVHTTP_RESPONSE };
+
+/**
+ * the request structure that a server receives.
+ * WARNING: expect this structure to change. I will try to provide
+ * reasonable accessors.
+ */
+struct evhttp_request {
+#if defined(TAILQ_ENTRY)
+ TAILQ_ENTRY(evhttp_request) next;
+#else
+struct {
+ struct evhttp_request *tqe_next;
+ struct evhttp_request **tqe_prev;
+} next;
+#endif
+
+ /* the connection object that this request belongs to */
+ struct evhttp_connection *evcon;
+ int flags;
+#define EVHTTP_REQ_OWN_CONNECTION 0x0001
+#define EVHTTP_PROXY_REQUEST 0x0002
+
+ struct evkeyvalq *input_headers;
+ struct evkeyvalq *output_headers;
+
+ /* address of the remote host and the port connection came from */
+ char *remote_host;
+ u_short remote_port;
+
+ enum evhttp_request_kind kind;
+ enum evhttp_cmd_type type;
+
+ char *uri; /* uri after HTTP request was parsed */
+
+ char major; /* HTTP Major number */
+ char minor; /* HTTP Minor number */
+
+ int response_code; /* HTTP Response code */
+ char *response_code_line; /* Readable response */
+
+ struct evbuffer *input_buffer; /* read data */
+ ev_int64_t ntoread;
+ int chunked;
+
+ struct evbuffer *output_buffer; /* outgoing post or data */
+
+ /* Callback */
+ void (*cb)(struct evhttp_request *, void *);
+ void *cb_arg;
+
+ /*
+ * Chunked data callback - call for each completed chunk if
+ * specified. If not specified, all the data is delivered via
+ * the regular callback.
+ */
+ void (*chunk_cb)(struct evhttp_request *, void *);
+};
+
+/**
+ * Creates a new request object that needs to be filled in with the request
+ * parameters. The callback is executed when the request completed or an
+ * error occurred.
+ */
+struct evhttp_request *evhttp_request_new(
+ void (*cb)(struct evhttp_request *, void *), void *arg);
+
+/** enable delivery of chunks to requestor */
+void evhttp_request_set_chunked_cb(struct evhttp_request *,
+ void (*cb)(struct evhttp_request *, void *));
+
+/** Frees the request object and removes associated events. */
+void evhttp_request_free(struct evhttp_request *req);
+
+/**
+ * A connection object that can be used to for making HTTP requests. The
+ * connection object tries to establish the connection when it is given an
+ * http request object.
+ */
+struct evhttp_connection *evhttp_connection_new(
+ const char *address, unsigned short port);
+
+/** Frees an http connection */
+void evhttp_connection_free(struct evhttp_connection *evcon);
+
+/** sets the ip address from which http connections are made */
+void evhttp_connection_set_local_address(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
+ const char *address);
+
+/** sets the local port from which http connections are made */
+void evhttp_connection_set_local_port(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
+ unsigned short port);
+
+/** Sets the timeout for events related to this connection */
+void evhttp_connection_set_timeout(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
+ int timeout_in_secs);
+
+/** Sets the retry limit for this connection - -1 repeats indefnitely */
+void evhttp_connection_set_retries(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
+ int retry_max);
+
+/** Set a callback for connection close. */
+void evhttp_connection_set_closecb(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
+ void (*)(struct evhttp_connection *, void *), void *);
+
+/**
+ * Associates an event base with the connection - can only be called
+ * on a freshly created connection object that has not been used yet.
+ */
+void evhttp_connection_set_base(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
+ struct event_base *base);
+
+/** Get the remote address and port associated with this connection. */
+void evhttp_connection_get_peer(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
+ char **address, u_short *port);
+
+/** The connection gets ownership of the request */
+int evhttp_make_request(struct evhttp_connection *evcon,
+ struct evhttp_request *req,
+ enum evhttp_cmd_type type, const char *uri);
+
+const char *evhttp_request_uri(struct evhttp_request *req);
+
+/* Interfaces for dealing with HTTP headers */
+
+const char *evhttp_find_header(const struct evkeyvalq *, const char *);
+int evhttp_remove_header(struct evkeyvalq *, const char *);
+int evhttp_add_header(struct evkeyvalq *, const char *, const char *);
+void evhttp_clear_headers(struct evkeyvalq *);
+
+/* Miscellaneous utility functions */
+
+
+/**
+ Helper function to encode a URI.
+
+ The returned string must be freed by the caller.
+
+ @param uri an unencoded URI
+ @return a newly allocated URI-encoded string
+ */
+char *evhttp_encode_uri(const char *uri);
+
+
+/**
+ Helper function to decode a URI.
+
+ The returned string must be freed by the caller.
+
+ @param uri an encoded URI
+ @return a newly allocated unencoded URI
+ */
+char *evhttp_decode_uri(const char *uri);
+
+
+/**
+ * Helper function to parse out arguments in a query.
+ *
+ * Parsing a uri like
+ *
+ * http://foo.com/?q=test&s=some+thing
+ *
+ * will result in two entries in the key value queue.
+
+ * The first entry is: key="q", value="test"
+ * The second entry is: key="s", value="some thing"
+ *
+ * @param uri the request URI
+ * @param headers the head of the evkeyval queue
+ */
+void evhttp_parse_query(const char *uri, struct evkeyvalq *headers);
+
+
+/**
+ * Escape HTML character entities in a string.
+ *
+ * Replaces <, >, ", ' and & with &lt;, &gt;, &quot;,
+ * &#039; and &amp; correspondingly.
+ *
+ * The returned string needs to be freed by the caller.
+ *
+ * @param html an unescaped HTML string
+ * @return an escaped HTML string
+ */
+char *evhttp_htmlescape(const char *html);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _EVHTTP_H_ */