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28.Dd December 18, 2007
29.Dt FETCH 3
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm fetchMakeURL ,
33.Nm fetchParseURL ,
34.Nm fetchFreeURL ,
35.Nm fetchXGetURL ,
36.Nm fetchGetURL ,
37.Nm fetchPutURL ,
38.Nm fetchStatURL ,
39.Nm fetchListURL ,
40.Nm fetchXGet ,
41.Nm fetchGet ,
42.Nm fetchPut ,
43.Nm fetchStat ,
44.Nm fetchList ,
45.Nm fetchXGetFile ,
46.Nm fetchGetFile ,
47.Nm fetchPutFile ,
48.Nm fetchStatFile ,
49.Nm fetchListFile ,
50.Nm fetchXGetHTTP ,
51.Nm fetchGetHTTP ,
52.Nm fetchPutHTTP ,
53.Nm fetchStatHTTP ,
54.Nm fetchListHTTP ,
55.Nm fetchXGetFTP ,
56.Nm fetchGetFTP ,
57.Nm fetchPutFTP ,
58.Nm fetchStatFTP ,
59.Nm fetchListFTP
60.Nd file transfer functions
61.Sh LIBRARY
62.Lb libfetch
63.Sh SYNOPSIS
64.In sys/param.h
65.In stdio.h
66.In fetch.h
67.Ft struct url *
68.Fn fetchMakeURL "const char *scheme" "const char *host" "int port" "const char *doc" "const char *user" "const char *pwd"
69.Ft struct url *
70.Fn fetchParseURL "const char *URL"
71.Ft void
72.Fn fetchFreeURL "struct url *u"
73.Ft FILE *
74.Fn fetchXGetURL "const char *URL" "struct url_stat *us" "const char *flags"
75.Ft FILE *
76.Fn fetchGetURL "const char *URL" "const char *flags"
77.Ft FILE *
78.Fn fetchPutURL "const char *URL" "const char *flags"
79.Ft int
80.Fn fetchStatURL "const char *URL" "struct url_stat *us" "const char *flags"
81.Ft struct url_ent *
82.Fn fetchListURL "const char *URL" "const char *flags"
83.Ft FILE *
84.Fn fetchXGet "struct url *u" "struct url_stat *us" "const char *flags"
85.Ft FILE *
86.Fn fetchGet "struct url *u" "const char *flags"
87.Ft FILE *
88.Fn fetchPut "struct url *u" "const char *flags"
89.Ft int
90.Fn fetchStat "struct url *u" "struct url_stat *us" "const char *flags"
91.Ft struct url_ent *
92.Fn fetchList "struct url *u" "const char *flags"
93.Ft FILE *
94.Fn fetchXGetFile "struct url *u" "struct url_stat *us" "const char *flags"
95.Ft FILE *
96.Fn fetchGetFile "struct url *u" "const char *flags"
97.Ft FILE *
98.Fn fetchPutFile "struct url *u" "const char *flags"
99.Ft int
100.Fn fetchStatFile "struct url *u" "struct url_stat *us" "const char *flags"
101.Ft struct url_ent *
102.Fn fetchListFile "struct url *u" "const char *flags"
103.Ft FILE *
104.Fn fetchXGetHTTP "struct url *u" "struct url_stat *us" "const char *flags"
105.Ft FILE *
106.Fn fetchGetHTTP "struct url *u" "const char *flags"
107.Ft FILE *
108.Fn fetchPutHTTP "struct url *u" "const char *flags"
109.Ft int
110.Fn fetchStatHTTP "struct url *u" "struct url_stat *us" "const char *flags"
111.Ft struct url_ent *
112.Fn fetchListHTTP "struct url *u" "const char *flags"
113.Ft FILE *
114.Fn fetchXGetFTP "struct url *u" "struct url_stat *us" "const char *flags"
115.Ft FILE *
116.Fn fetchGetFTP "struct url *u" "const char *flags"
117.Ft FILE *
118.Fn fetchPutFTP "struct url *u" "const char *flags"
119.Ft int
120.Fn fetchStatFTP "struct url *u" "struct url_stat *us" "const char *flags"
121.Ft struct url_ent *
122.Fn fetchListFTP "struct url *u" "const char *flags"
123.Sh DESCRIPTION
124These functions implement a high-level library for retrieving and
125uploading files using Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).
126.Pp
127.Fn fetchParseURL
128takes a URL in the form of a null-terminated string and splits it into
129its components function according to the Common Internet Scheme Syntax
130detailed in RFC1738.
131A regular expression which produces this syntax is:
132.Bd -literal
133    <scheme>:(//(<user>(:<pwd>)?@)?<host>(:<port>)?)?/(<document>)?
134.Ed
135.Pp
136If the URL does not seem to begin with a scheme name, the following
137syntax is assumed:
138.Bd -literal
139    ((<user>(:<pwd>)?@)?<host>(:<port>)?)?/(<document>)?
140.Ed
141.Pp
142Note that some components of the URL are not necessarily relevant to
143all URL schemes.
144For instance, the file scheme only needs the <scheme> and <document>
145components.
146.Pp
147.Fn fetchMakeURL
148and
149.Fn fetchParseURL
150return a pointer to a
151.Vt url
152structure, which is defined as follows in
153.In fetch.h :
154.Bd -literal
155#define URL_SCHEMELEN 16
156#define URL_USERLEN 256
157#define URL_PWDLEN 256
158
159struct url {
160    char	 scheme[URL_SCHEMELEN+1];
161    char	 user[URL_USERLEN+1];
162    char	 pwd[URL_PWDLEN+1];
163    char	 host[MAXHOSTNAMELEN+1];
164    int		 port;
165    char	*doc;
166    off_t	 offset;
167    size_t	 length;
168};
169.Ed
170.Pp
171The pointer returned by
172.Fn fetchMakeURL
173or
174.Fn fetchParseURL
175should be freed using
176.Fn fetchFreeURL .
177.Pp
178.Fn fetchXGetURL ,
179.Fn fetchGetURL ,
180and
181.Fn fetchPutURL
182constitute the recommended interface to the
183.Nm fetch
184library.
185They examine the URL passed to them to determine the transfer
186method, and call the appropriate lower-level functions to perform the
187actual transfer.
188.Fn fetchXGetURL
189also returns the remote document's metadata in the
190.Vt url_stat
191structure pointed to by the
192.Fa us
193argument.
194.Pp
195The
196.Fa flags
197argument is a string of characters which specify transfer options.
198The
199meaning of the individual flags is scheme-dependent, and is detailed
200in the appropriate section below.
201.Pp
202.Fn fetchStatURL
203attempts to obtain the requested document's metadata and fill in the
204structure pointed to by its second argument.
205The
206.Vt url_stat
207structure is defined as follows in
208.In fetch.h :
209.Bd -literal
210struct url_stat {
211    off_t	 size;
212    time_t	 atime;
213    time_t	 mtime;
214};
215.Ed
216.Pp
217If the size could not be obtained from the server, the
218.Fa size
219field is set to -1.
220If the modification time could not be obtained from the server, the
221.Fa mtime
222field is set to the epoch.
223If the access time could not be obtained from the server, the
224.Fa atime
225field is set to the modification time.
226.Pp
227.Fn fetchListURL
228attempts to list the contents of the directory pointed to by the URL
229provided.
230If successful, it returns a malloced array of
231.Vt url_ent
232structures.
233The
234.Vt url_ent
235structure is defined as follows in
236.In fetch.h :
237.Bd -literal
238struct url_ent {
239    char         name[MAXPATHLEN];
240    struct url_stat stat;
241};
242.Ed
243.Pp
244The list is terminated by an entry with an empty name.
245.Pp
246The pointer returned by
247.Fn fetchListURL
248should be freed using
249.Fn free .
250.Pp
251.Fn fetchXGet ,
252.Fn fetchGet ,
253.Fn fetchPut
254and
255.Fn fetchStat
256are similar to
257.Fn fetchXGetURL ,
258.Fn fetchGetURL ,
259.Fn fetchPutURL
260and
261.Fn fetchStatURL ,
262except that they expect a pre-parsed URL in the form of a pointer to
263a
264.Vt struct url
265rather than a string.
266.Pp
267All of the
268.Fn fetchXGetXXX ,
269.Fn fetchGetXXX
270and
271.Fn fetchPutXXX
272functions return a pointer to a stream which can be used to read or
273write data from or to the requested document, respectively.
274Note that
275although the implementation details of the individual access methods
276vary, it can generally be assumed that a stream returned by one of the
277.Fn fetchXGetXXX
278or
279.Fn fetchGetXXX
280functions is read-only, and that a stream returned by one of the
281.Fn fetchPutXXX
282functions is write-only.
283.Sh FILE SCHEME
284.Fn fetchXGetFile ,
285.Fn fetchGetFile
286and
287.Fn fetchPutFile
288provide access to documents which are files in a locally mounted file
289system.
290Only the <document> component of the URL is used.
291.Pp
292.Fn fetchXGetFile
293and
294.Fn fetchGetFile
295do not accept any flags.
296.Pp
297.Fn fetchPutFile
298accepts the
299.Ql a
300(append to file) flag.
301If that flag is specified, the data written to
302the stream returned by
303.Fn fetchPutFile
304will be appended to the previous contents of the file, instead of
305replacing them.
306.Sh FTP SCHEME
307.Fn fetchXGetFTP ,
308.Fn fetchGetFTP
309and
310.Fn fetchPutFTP
311implement the FTP protocol as described in RFC959.
312.Pp
313If the
314.Ql p
315(passive) flag is specified, a passive (rather than active) connection
316will be attempted.
317.Pp
318If the
319.Ql l
320(low) flag is specified, data sockets will be allocated in the low (or
321default) port range instead of the high port range (see
322.Xr ip 4 ) .
323.Pp
324If the
325.Ql d
326(direct) flag is specified,
327.Fn fetchXGetFTP ,
328.Fn fetchGetFTP
329and
330.Fn fetchPutFTP
331will use a direct connection even if a proxy server is defined.
332.Pp
333If no user name or password is given, the
334.Nm fetch
335library will attempt an anonymous login, with user name "anonymous"
336and password "anonymous@<hostname>".
337.Sh HTTP SCHEME
338The
339.Fn fetchXGetHTTP ,
340.Fn fetchGetHTTP
341and
342.Fn fetchPutHTTP
343functions implement the HTTP/1.1 protocol.
344With a little luck, there is
345even a chance that they comply with RFC2616 and RFC2617.
346.Pp
347If the
348.Ql d
349(direct) flag is specified,
350.Fn fetchXGetHTTP ,
351.Fn fetchGetHTTP
352and
353.Fn fetchPutHTTP
354will use a direct connection even if a proxy server is defined.
355.Pp
356Since there seems to be no good way of implementing the HTTP PUT
357method in a manner consistent with the rest of the
358.Nm fetch
359library,
360.Fn fetchPutHTTP
361is currently unimplemented.
362.Sh AUTHENTICATION
363Apart from setting the appropriate environment variables and
364specifying the user name and password in the URL or the
365.Vt struct url ,
366the calling program has the option of defining an authentication
367function with the following prototype:
368.Pp
369.Ft int
370.Fn myAuthMethod "struct url *u"
371.Pp
372The callback function should fill in the
373.Fa user
374and
375.Fa pwd
376fields in the provided
377.Vt struct url
378and return 0 on success, or any other value to indicate failure.
379.Pp
380To register the authentication callback, simply set
381.Va fetchAuthMethod
382to point at it.
383The callback will be used whenever a site requires authentication and
384the appropriate environment variables are not set.
385.Pp
386This interface is experimental and may be subject to change.
387.Sh RETURN VALUES
388.Fn fetchParseURL
389returns a pointer to a
390.Vt struct url
391containing the individual components of the URL.
392If it is
393unable to allocate memory, or the URL is syntactically incorrect,
394.Fn fetchParseURL
395returns a NULL pointer.
396.Pp
397The
398.Fn fetchStat
399functions return 0 on success and -1 on failure.
400.Pp
401All other functions return a stream pointer which may be used to
402access the requested document, or NULL if an error occurred.
403.Pp
404The following error codes are defined in
405.In fetch.h :
406.Bl -tag -width 18n
407.It Bq Er FETCH_ABORT
408Operation aborted
409.It Bq Er FETCH_AUTH
410Authentication failed
411.It Bq Er FETCH_DOWN
412Service unavailable
413.It Bq Er FETCH_EXISTS
414File exists
415.It Bq Er FETCH_FULL
416File system full
417.It Bq Er FETCH_INFO
418Informational response
419.It Bq Er FETCH_MEMORY
420Insufficient memory
421.It Bq Er FETCH_MOVED
422File has moved
423.It Bq Er FETCH_NETWORK
424Network error
425.It Bq Er FETCH_OK
426No error
427.It Bq Er FETCH_PROTO
428Protocol error
429.It Bq Er FETCH_RESOLV
430Resolver error
431.It Bq Er FETCH_SERVER
432Server error
433.It Bq Er FETCH_TEMP
434Temporary error
435.It Bq Er FETCH_TIMEOUT
436Operation timed out
437.It Bq Er FETCH_UNAVAIL
438File is not available
439.It Bq Er FETCH_UNKNOWN
440Unknown error
441.It Bq Er FETCH_URL
442Invalid URL
443.El
444.Pp
445The accompanying error message includes a protocol-specific error code
446and message, e.g.\& "File is not available (404 Not Found)"
447.Sh ENVIRONMENT
448.Bl -tag -width ".Ev FETCH_BIND_ADDRESS"
449.It Ev FETCH_BIND_ADDRESS
450Specifies a hostname or IP address to which sockets used for outgoing
451connections will be bound.
452.It Ev FTP_LOGIN
453Default FTP login if none was provided in the URL.
454.It Ev FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
455If set to anything but
456.Ql no ,
457forces the FTP code to use passive mode.
458.It Ev FTP_PASSWORD
459Default FTP password if the remote server requests one and none was
460provided in the URL.
461.It Ev FTP_PROXY
462URL of the proxy to use for FTP requests.
463The document part is ignored.
464FTP and HTTP proxies are supported; if no scheme is specified, FTP is
465assumed.
466If the proxy is an FTP proxy,
467.Nm libfetch
468will send
469.Ql user@host
470as user name to the proxy, where
471.Ql user
472is the real user name, and
473.Ql host
474is the name of the FTP server.
475.Pp
476If this variable is set to an empty string, no proxy will be used for
477FTP requests, even if the
478.Ev HTTP_PROXY
479variable is set.
480.It Ev ftp_proxy
481Same as
482.Ev FTP_PROXY ,
483for compatibility.
484.It Ev HTTP_AUTH
485Specifies HTTP authorization parameters as a colon-separated list of
486items.
487The first and second item are the authorization scheme and realm
488respectively; further items are scheme-dependent.
489Currently, only basic authorization is supported.
490.Pp
491Basic authorization requires two parameters: the user name and
492password, in that order.
493.Pp
494This variable is only used if the server requires authorization and
495no user name or password was specified in the URL.
496.It Ev HTTP_PROXY
497URL of the proxy to use for HTTP requests.
498The document part is ignored.
499Only HTTP proxies are supported for HTTP requests.
500If no port number is specified, the default is 3128.
501.Pp
502Note that this proxy will also be used for FTP documents, unless the
503.Ev FTP_PROXY
504variable is set.
505.It Ev http_proxy
506Same as
507.Ev HTTP_PROXY ,
508for compatibility.
509.It Ev HTTP_PROXY_AUTH
510Specifies authorization parameters for the HTTP proxy in the same
511format as the
512.Ev HTTP_AUTH
513variable.
514.Pp
515This variable is used if and only if connected to an HTTP proxy, and
516is ignored if a user and/or a password were specified in the proxy
517URL.
518.It Ev HTTP_REFERER
519Specifies the referrer URL to use for HTTP requests.
520If set to
521.Dq auto ,
522the document URL will be used as referrer URL.
523.It Ev HTTP_USER_AGENT
524Specifies the User-Agent string to use for HTTP requests.
525This can be useful when working with HTTP origin or proxy servers that
526differentiate between user agents.
527.It Ev NETRC
528Specifies a file to use instead of
529.Pa ~/.netrc
530to look up login names and passwords for FTP sites.
531See
532.Xr ftp 1
533for a description of the file format.
534This feature is experimental.
535.It Ev NO_PROXY
536Either a single asterisk, which disables the use of proxies
537altogether, or a comma- or whitespace-separated list of hosts for
538which proxies should not be used.
539.It Ev no_proxy
540Same as
541.Ev NO_PROXY ,
542for compatibility.
543.El
544.Sh EXAMPLES
545To access a proxy server on
546.Pa proxy.example.com
547port 8080, set the
548.Ev HTTP_PROXY
549environment variable in a manner similar to this:
550.Pp
551.Dl HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080
552.Pp
553If the proxy server requires authentication, there are
554two options available for passing the authentication data.
555The first method is by using the proxy URL:
556.Pp
557.Dl HTTP_PROXY=http://<user>:<pwd>@proxy.example.com:8080
558.Pp
559The second method is by using the
560.Ev HTTP_PROXY_AUTH
561environment variable:
562.Bd -literal -offset indent
563HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080
564HTTP_PROXY_AUTH=basic:*:<user>:<pwd>
565.Ed
566.Pp
567To disable the use of a proxy for an HTTP server running on the local
568host, define
569.Ev NO_PROXY
570as follows:
571.Bd -literal -offset indent
572NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1
573.Ed
574.Sh SEE ALSO
575.Xr fetch 1 ,
576.Xr ftpio 3 ,
577.Xr ip 4
578.Rs
579.%A J. Postel
580.%A J. K. Reynolds
581.%D October 1985
582.%B File Transfer Protocol
583.%O RFC959
584.Re
585.Rs
586.%A P. Deutsch
587.%A A. Emtage
588.%A A. Marine.
589.%D May 1994
590.%T How to Use Anonymous FTP
591.%O RFC1635
592.Re
593.Rs
594.%A T. Berners-Lee
595.%A L. Masinter
596.%A M. McCahill
597.%D December 1994
598.%T Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
599.%O RFC1738
600.Re
601.Rs
602.%A R. Fielding
603.%A J. Gettys
604.%A J. Mogul
605.%A H. Frystyk
606.%A L. Masinter
607.%A P. Leach
608.%A T. Berners-Lee
609.%D January 1999
610.%B Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
611.%O RFC2616
612.Re
613.Rs
614.%A J. Franks
615.%A P. Hallam-Baker
616.%A J. Hostetler
617.%A S. Lawrence
618.%A P. Leach
619.%A A. Luotonen
620.%A L. Stewart
621.%D June 1999
622.%B HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication
623.%O RFC2617
624.Re
625.Sh HISTORY
626The
627.Nm fetch
628library first appeared in
629.Fx 3.0 .
630.Sh AUTHORS
631.An -nosplit
632The
633.Nm fetch
634library was mostly written by
635.An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@FreeBSD.org
636with numerous suggestions from
637.An Jordan K. Hubbard Aq jkh@FreeBSD.org ,
638.An Eugene Skepner Aq eu@qub.com
639and other
640.Fx
641developers.
642It replaces the older
643.Nm ftpio
644library written by
645.An Poul-Henning Kamp Aq phk@FreeBSD.org
646and
647.An Jordan K. Hubbard Aq jkh@FreeBSD.org .
648.Pp
649This manual page was written by
650.An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@FreeBSD.org .
651.Sh BUGS
652Some parts of the library are not yet implemented.
653The most notable
654examples of this are
655.Fn fetchPutHTTP ,
656.Fn fetchListHTTP ,
657.Fn fetchListFTP
658and FTP proxy support.
659.Pp
660There is no way to select a proxy at run-time other than setting the
661.Ev HTTP_PROXY
662or
663.Ev FTP_PROXY
664environment variables as appropriate.
665.Pp
666.Nm libfetch
667does not understand or obey 305 (Use Proxy) replies.
668.Pp
669Error numbers are unique only within a certain context; the error
670codes used for FTP and HTTP overlap, as do those used for resolver and
671system errors.
672For instance, error code 202 means "Command not
673implemented, superfluous at this site" in an FTP context and
674"Accepted" in an HTTP context.
675.Pp
676.Fn fetchStatFTP
677does not check that the result of an MDTM command is a valid date.
678.Pp
679The man page is incomplete, poorly written and produces badly
680formatted text.
681.Pp
682The error reporting mechanism is unsatisfactory.
683.Pp
684Some parts of the code are not fully reentrant.
685