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+/*
+ * Copyright 2001-2007 Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
+ * Copyright 2007-2012 Niels Provos and Nick Mathewson
+ *
+ * This header file contains definitions for dealing with HTTP requests
+ * that are internal to libevent.  As user of the library, you should not
+ * need to know about these.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _HTTP_INTERNAL_H_
+#define _HTTP_INTERNAL_H_
+
+#include "event2/event_struct.h"
+#include "util-internal.h"
+#include "defer-internal.h"
+
+#define HTTP_CONNECT_TIMEOUT	45
+#define HTTP_WRITE_TIMEOUT	50
+#define HTTP_READ_TIMEOUT	50
+
+#define HTTP_PREFIX		"http://"
+#define HTTP_DEFAULTPORT	80
+
+enum message_read_status {
+	ALL_DATA_READ = 1,
+	MORE_DATA_EXPECTED = 0,
+	DATA_CORRUPTED = -1,
+	REQUEST_CANCELED = -2,
+	DATA_TOO_LONG = -3
+};
+
+enum evhttp_connection_error {
+	EVCON_HTTP_TIMEOUT,
+	EVCON_HTTP_EOF,
+	EVCON_HTTP_INVALID_HEADER,
+	EVCON_HTTP_BUFFER_ERROR,
+	EVCON_HTTP_REQUEST_CANCEL
+};
+
+struct evbuffer;
+struct addrinfo;
+struct evhttp_request;
+
+/* Indicates an unknown request method. */
+#define _EVHTTP_REQ_UNKNOWN (1<<15)
+
+enum evhttp_connection_state {
+	EVCON_DISCONNECTED,	/**< not currently connected not trying either*/
+	EVCON_CONNECTING,	/**< tries to currently connect */
+	EVCON_IDLE,		/**< connection is established */
+	EVCON_READING_FIRSTLINE,/**< reading Request-Line (incoming conn) or
+				 **< Status-Line (outgoing conn) */
+	EVCON_READING_HEADERS,	/**< reading request/response headers */
+	EVCON_READING_BODY,	/**< reading request/response body */
+	EVCON_READING_TRAILER,	/**< reading request/response chunked trailer */
+	EVCON_WRITING		/**< writing request/response headers/body */
+};
+
+struct event_base;
+
+/* A client or server connection. */
+struct evhttp_connection {
+	/* we use this tailq only if this connection was created for an http
+	 * server */
+	TAILQ_ENTRY(evhttp_connection) next;
+
+	evutil_socket_t fd;
+	struct bufferevent *bufev;
+
+	struct event retry_ev;		/* for retrying connects */
+
+	char *bind_address;		/* address to use for binding the src */
+	u_short bind_port;		/* local port for binding the src */
+
+	char *address;			/* address to connect to */
+	u_short port;
+
+	size_t max_headers_size;
+	ev_uint64_t max_body_size;
+
+	int flags;
+#define EVHTTP_CON_INCOMING	0x0001	/* only one request on it ever */
+#define EVHTTP_CON_OUTGOING	0x0002  /* multiple requests possible */
+#define EVHTTP_CON_CLOSEDETECT  0x0004  /* detecting if persistent close */
+
+	int timeout;			/* timeout in seconds for events */
+	int retry_cnt;			/* retry count */
+	int retry_max;			/* maximum number of retries */
+
+	enum evhttp_connection_state state;
+
+	/* for server connections, the http server they are connected with */
+	struct evhttp *http_server;
+
+	TAILQ_HEAD(evcon_requestq, evhttp_request) requests;
+
+	void (*cb)(struct evhttp_connection *, void *);
+	void *cb_arg;
+
+	void (*closecb)(struct evhttp_connection *, void *);
+	void *closecb_arg;
+
+	struct deferred_cb read_more_deferred_cb;
+
+	struct event_base *base;
+	struct evdns_base *dns_base;
+};
+
+/* A callback for an http server */
+struct evhttp_cb {
+	TAILQ_ENTRY(evhttp_cb) next;
+
+	char *what;
+
+	void (*cb)(struct evhttp_request *req, void *);
+	void *cbarg;
+};
+
+/* both the http server as well as the rpc system need to queue connections */
+TAILQ_HEAD(evconq, evhttp_connection);
+
+/* each bound socket is stored in one of these */
+struct evhttp_bound_socket {
+	TAILQ_ENTRY(evhttp_bound_socket) next;
+
+	struct evconnlistener *listener;
+};
+
+/* server alias list item. */
+struct evhttp_server_alias {
+	TAILQ_ENTRY(evhttp_server_alias) next;
+
+	char *alias; /* the server alias. */
+};
+
+struct evhttp {
+	/* Next vhost, if this is a vhost. */
+	TAILQ_ENTRY(evhttp) next_vhost;
+
+	/* All listeners for this host */
+	TAILQ_HEAD(boundq, evhttp_bound_socket) sockets;
+
+	TAILQ_HEAD(httpcbq, evhttp_cb) callbacks;
+
+	/* All live connections on this host. */
+	struct evconq connections;
+
+	TAILQ_HEAD(vhostsq, evhttp) virtualhosts;
+
+	TAILQ_HEAD(aliasq, evhttp_server_alias) aliases;
+
+	/* NULL if this server is not a vhost */
+	char *vhost_pattern;
+
+	int timeout;
+
+	size_t default_max_headers_size;
+	ev_uint64_t default_max_body_size;
+
+	/* Bitmask of all HTTP methods that we accept and pass to user
+	 * callbacks. */
+	ev_uint16_t allowed_methods;
+
+	/* Fallback callback if all the other callbacks for this connection
+	   don't match. */
+	void (*gencb)(struct evhttp_request *req, void *);
+	void *gencbarg;
+
+	struct event_base *base;
+};
+
+/* XXX most of these functions could be static. */
+
+/* resets the connection; can be reused for more requests */
+void evhttp_connection_reset(struct evhttp_connection *);
+
+/* connects if necessary */
+int evhttp_connection_connect(struct evhttp_connection *);
+
+/* notifies the current request that it failed; resets connection */
+void evhttp_connection_fail(struct evhttp_connection *,
+    enum evhttp_connection_error error);
+
+enum message_read_status;
+
+enum message_read_status evhttp_parse_firstline(struct evhttp_request *, struct evbuffer*);
+enum message_read_status evhttp_parse_headers(struct evhttp_request *, struct evbuffer*);
+
+void evhttp_start_read(struct evhttp_connection *);
+
+/* response sending HTML the data in the buffer */
+void evhttp_response_code(struct evhttp_request *, int, const char *);
+void evhttp_send_page(struct evhttp_request *, struct evbuffer *);
+
+#endif /* _HTTP_H */