libmicrohttpd/scripts/d_options.rec

# *-* mode: rec -*-
#
# MHD option registry
#
%rec: D_Options
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# MHD behaviour

Name: WORK_MODE
Value: 40
Comment: Set MHD work (threading and polling) mode.
+ Consider use of #MHD_D_OPTION_WM_EXTERNAL_PERIODIC(), #MHD_D_OPTION_WM_EXTERNAL_EVENT_LOOP_CB_LEVEL(), #MHD_D_OPTION_WM_EXTERNAL_EVENT_LOOP_CB_EDGE(), #MHD_D_OPTION_WM_EXTERNAL_SINGLE_FD_WATCH(), #MHD_D_OPTION_WM_WORKER_THREADS() or #MHD_D_OPTION_WM_THREAD_PER_CONNECTION() instead of direct use of this parameter.
Argument1: struct MHD_WorkModeWithParam wmp
Description1: the object created by one of the next functions/macros: #MHD_WM_OPTION_EXTERNAL_PERIODIC(), #MHD_WM_OPTION_EXTERNAL_EVENT_LOOP_CB_LEVEL(), #MHD_WM_OPTION_EXTERNAL_EVENT_LOOP_CB_EDGE(), #MHD_WM_OPTION_EXTERNAL_SINGLE_FD_WATCH(), #MHD_WM_OPTION_WORKER_THREADS(), #MHD_WM_OPTION_THREAD_PER_CONNECTION()

Name: poll_syscall
Value: 41
Comment: Select a sockets watch system call used for internal polling.
Argument1: enum MHD_SockPollSyscall els

Name: log_callback
Value: 60
Comment: Set a callback to use for logging
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueLog
Argument1: MHD_LoggingCallback log_cb
Description1: the callback to use for logging,
+ NULL to disable logging
Argument2: void *lob_cb_cls
Description2: the closure for the logging callback

# Listen socket

Name: bind_port
Value: 80
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueBind
Comment: Bind to the given TCP port and address family.
+
+ Does not work with #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_SA() or #MHD_D_OPTION_LISTEN_SOCKET().
+
+ If no listen socket optins (#MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_PORT(), #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_SA(), #MHD_D_OPTION_LISTEN_SOCKET()) are used, MHD does not listen for incoming connection.
Argument1: enum MHD_AddressFamily af
Description1: the address family to use,
+ the #MHD_AF_NONE to disable listen socket (the same effect as if this option is not used)
Argument2: uint_fast16_t port
Description2: port to use, 0 to let system assign any free port,
+ ignored if @a af is #MHD_AF_NONE

Name: bind_sa
Value: 81
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueSA
Comment: Bind to the given socket address.
+
+ Does not work with #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_PORT() or #MHD_D_OPTION_LISTEN_SOCKET().
+
+ If no listen socket optins (#MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_PORT(), #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_SA(), #MHD_D_OPTION_LISTEN_SOCKET()) are used, MHD does not listen for incoming connection.
Argument1: size_t sa_len
Description1: the size of the socket address pointed by @a sa.
Argument2: const struct sockaddr *sa
Description2: the address to bind to; can be IPv4 (AF_INET), IPv6 (AF_INET6) or even a UNIX domain socket (AF_UNIX)

Name: listen_socket
Value: 82
Comment: Accept connections from the given socket.  Socket
+ must be a TCP or UNIX domain (SOCK_STREAM) socket.
+
+ Does not work with #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_PORT() or #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_SA().
+
+ If no listen socket optins (#MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_PORT(), #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_SA(), #MHD_D_OPTION_LISTEN_SOCKET()) are used, MHD does not listen for incoming connection.
Argument1: MHD_socket listen_fd
Description1: the listen socket to use, ignored if set to #MHD_INVALID_SOCKET

Name: listen addr reuse
Value: 100
Comment: Select mode of reusing address:port listen address.
+
+ Works only when #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_PORT() or #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_SA() are used.
Argument1: enum MHD_DaemonOptionBindType reuse_type

Name: tcp_fastopen
Value: 101
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueTFO
Comment: Configure TCP_FASTOPEN option, including setting a
+ custom @a queue_length.
+
+ Note that having a larger queue size can cause resource exhaustion
+ attack as the TCP stack has to now allocate resources for the SYN
+ packet along with its DATA.
+
+ Works only when #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_PORT() or #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_SA() are used.
Argument1: enum MHD_TCPFastOpenType option
Description1: the type use of of TCP FastOpen
Argument2: unsigned int queue_length
Description2: the length of the queue, zero to use system or MHD default,
+ silently ignored on platforms without support for custom queue size

Name: LISTEN_BACKLOG
Value: 102
Comment: Use the given backlog for the listen() call.
+
+ Works only when #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_PORT() or #MHD_D_OPTION_BIND_SA() are used.
Argument1: unsigned int backlog_size

Name: sigpipe suppressed
Value: 103
Type: enum MHD_Bool
Comment: Inform that SIGPIPE is suppressed or handled by application.
+ If suppressed/handled, MHD uses network functions that could generate SIGPIPE, like `sendfile()`.
+ Silently ignored when MHD creates internal threads as for them SIGPIPE is suppressed automatically.

# TLS settings

Name: TLS
Value: 120
Comment: Enable TLS (HTTPS) and select TLS backend
Argument1: enum MHD_TlsBackend backend
Description1: the TLS backend to use,
+ #MHD_TLS_BACKEND_NONE for non-TLS (plain TCP) connections

Name: tls_key_cert
Value: 121
Comment: Provide TLS key and certificate data in-memory.
+ Works only if TLS mode is enabled.
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueTlsCert
Argument1: const char *mem_key
Description1: the private key loaded into memory (not a filename)
Argument2: const char *mem_cert
Description2: the certificate loaded into memory (not a filename)
Argument3: const char *mem_pass
Description3: the option passphrase phrase to decrypt the private key,
+ could be NULL is private does not need a password

Name: tls_client_ca
Value: 122
Comment: Provide the certificate of the certificate authority (CA) to be used by the MHD daemon for client authentication.
+ Works only if TLS mode is enabled.
Argument1: const char *mem_client_ca
Description1: the CA certificate in memory (not a filename)

Name: tls_psk_callback
Value: 130
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueTlsPskCB
Comment: Configure PSK to use for the TLS key exchange.
Argument1: MHD_PskServerCredentialsCallback psk_cb
Description1: the function to call to obtain pre-shared key
Argument2: void *psk_cb_cls
Description2: the closure for @a psk_cb

Name: no alpn
Value: 140
Type: enum MHD_Bool
Comment: Control ALPN for TLS connection.
+ Silently ignored for non-TLS.
+ By default ALPN is automatically used for TLS connections.

# Connection handling

Name: DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
Value: 160
Comment: Specify inactivity timeout for connection.
+ When no activity for specified time on connection, it is closed automatically.
+ Use zero for no timeout, which is also the (unsafe!) default.
Argument1: unsigned int timeout
Description1: the in seconds, zero for no timeout

Name: GLOBAL_CONNECTION_LIMIT
Value: 161
Comment: Maximum number of (concurrent) network connections served by daemon
Argument1: unsigned int glob_limit

Name: PER_IP_LIMIT
Value: 162
Comment: Limit on the number of (concurrent) network connections made to the server from the same IP address.
+ Can be used to prevent one IP from taking over all of the allowed connections. If the same IP tries to establish more than the specified number of connections, they will be immediately rejected.
Argument1: unsigned int per_ip_limit

Name: accept_policy
Value: 163
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueAcceptPol
Comment: Set a policy callback that accepts/rejects connections based on the client's IP address.  The callbeck function will be called before servicing any new incoming connection.
Argument1: MHD_AcceptPolicyCallback apc
Description1: the accept policy callback
Argument2: void *apc_cls
Description2: the closure for the callback

# Requests processing

Name: protocol_strict_level
Value: 200
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueStrctLvl
Comment: Set how strictly MHD will enforce the HTTP protocol.
Argument1: enum MHD_ProtocolStrictLevel sl
Description1: the level of strictness
Argument2: enum MHD_UseStictLevel how
Description2: the way how to use the requested level

Name: early_uri_logger
Value: 201
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueUriCB
Comment: Set a callback to be called first for every request when the request line is received (before any parsing of the header).
+ This callback is the only way to get raw (unmodified) request URI as URI is parsed and modified by MHD in-place.
+ Mandatory URI modification may apply before this call, like binary zero replacement, as required by RFCs.
Argument1: MHD_EarlyUriLogCallback cb
Description1: the early URI callback
Argument2: void *cls
Description2: the closure for the callback

Name: DISABLE_URI_QUERY_PLUS_AS_SPACE
Value: 202
Type: enum MHD_Bool
Comment: Disable converting plus ('+') character to space in GET parameters (URI part after '?').
+ Plus conversion is not required by HTTP RFCs, however it required by HTML specifications, see https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#application/x-www-form-urlencoded for details.
+ By default plus is converted to space in the query part of URI.

# Responses processing

Name: SUPPRESS_DATE_HEADER
Value: 240
Type: enum MHD_Bool
Comment: Suppresse use of "Date:" header.
+ According to RFC should be suppressed only if the system has no RTC.
+ The "Date:" is not suppressed (the header is enabled) by default.

Name: ENABLE_SHOUTCAST
Value: 241
Type: enum MHD_Bool
Comment: Use SHOUTcast for responses.
+ This will cause *all* responses to begin with the SHOUTcast "ICY" line instead of "HTTP".

# MHD limits

Name: conn memory limit
Value: 280
Type: size_t
Comment: Maximum memory size per connection.
+ Default is 32kb.
+ Values above 128kb are unlikely to result in much performance benefit, as half of the memory will be typically used for IO, and TCP buffers are unlikely to support window sizes above 64k on most systems.
+ The size should be large enough to fit all request headers (together with internal parsing information).

Name: large pool size
Value: 281
Type: size_t
Comment: The size of the shared memory pool for accamulated upload processing.
+ The same "large" pool is shared for all connections server by MHD and used when application requests avoiding of incremental upload processing to accamulate complete content upload before giving it to the application.
+ Default is 8Mb.
+ Can be set to zero to disable share pool.

Name: stack size
Value: 282
Type: size_t
Comment: Desired size of the stack for the threads started by MHD.
+ Use 0 for system default, which is also MHD default.
+ Works only with #MHD_D_OPTION_WM_WORKER_THREADS() or #MHD_D_OPTION_WM_THREAD_PER_CONNECTION().

Name: fd_number_limit
Value: 283
Comment: The the maximum FD value.
+ The limit is applied to all sockets used by MHD.
+ If listen socket FD is equal or higher that specified value, the daemon fail to start.
+ If new connection FD is equal or higher that specified value, the connection is rejected.
+ Useful if application uses select() for polling the sockets, system FD_SETSIZE is good value for this option in such case.
+ Does not work with #MHD_D_OPTION_WM_WORKER_THREADS() or #MHD_D_OPTION_WM_THREAD_PER_CONNECTION().
+ Does not work on W32 (WinSock sockets).
Argument1: MHD_socket max_fd

# MHD optimisations

Name: TURBO
Value: 320
Type: enum MHD_Bool
Comment: Enable `turbo`.
+ Disables certain calls to `shutdown()`, enables aggressive non-blocking optimistic reads and other potentially unsafe optimisations.
+ Most effects only happen with internal threads with epoll.
+ The 'turbo' mode is not enabled (mode is disabled) by default.

Name: DISABLE_THREAD_SAFETY
Value: 321
Type: enum MHD_Bool
Comment: Disable some internal thread safety.
+ Indicates that MHD daemon will be used by application in single-threaded mode only.  When this flag is set then application must call any MHD function only within a single thread.
+ This flag turns off some internal thread-safety and allows MHD making some of the internal optimisations suitable only for single-threaded environment.
+ Not compatible with any internal threads modes.
+ If MHD is compiled with custom configuration for embedded projects without threads support, this option is mandatory.
+ Thread safety is not disabled (safety is enabled) by default.

Name: DISALLOW_UPGRADE
Value: 322
Type: enum MHD_Bool
Comment: You need to set this option if you want to disable use of HTTP "Upgrade".
+ "Upgrade" may require usage of additional internal resources, which we can avoid providing if they will not be used.
+ You should only use this option if you do not use "Upgrade" functionality and need a generally minor boost in performance and resources saving.
+ The "Upgrade" is not disallowed ("upgrade" is allowed) by default.

Name: DISALLOW_SUSPEND_RESUME
Value: 323
Type: enum MHD_Bool
Comment: Disable #MHD_action_suspend() functionality.
+
+ You should only use this function if you do not use suspend functionality and need a generally minor boost in performance.
+ The suspend is not disallowed (suspend is allowed) by default.

# Notification callbacks

Name: daemon_ready_callback
Value: 360
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueReadyCB
Comment: Set a callback to be called for pre-start finalisation.
+
+ The specified callback will be called one time, after network initialisation, TLS pre-initialisation, but before the start of the internal threads (if allowed)
Argument1: MHD_DaemonReadyCallback cb
Description1: the pre-start callback
Argument2: void *cb_cls
Description2: the closure for the callback

Name: notify_connection
Value: 361
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueNotifConnCB
Comment: Set a function that should be called whenever a connection is started or closed.
Argument1: MHD_NotifyConnectionCallback ncc
Description1: the callback for notifications
Argument2: void *cls
Description2: the closure for the callback

Name: notify_stream
Value: 362
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueNotifStreamCB
Comment: Register a function that should be called whenever a stream is started or closed.
+ For HTTP/1.1 this callback is called one time for every connection.
Argument1: MHD_NotifyStreamCallback nsc
Description1: the callback for notifications
Argument2: void *cls
Description2: the closure for the callback

# Digest Auth settings

Name: random entropy
Value: 400
Type: struct MHD_DaemonOptionValueRand
Comment: Set strong random data to be used by MHD.
+ Currently the data is only needed for Digest Auth module.
+ The recommended size is between 8 and 32 bytes. Security can be lower for sizes less or equal four.
+ Sizes larger then 32 (or, probably, larger than 16 - debatable) will not increase the security.
Argument1: size_t buf_size
Description1: the size of the buffer
Argument2: const void *buf
Description2: the buffer with strong random data, the content will be copied by MHD

Name: dauth_map_size
Value: 401
Comment: Specify the size of the internal hash map array that tracks generated digest nonces usage.
+ When the size of the map is too small then need to handle concurrent DAuth requests, a lot of "stale nonce" results will be produced.
+ By default the size is 8 bytes (very small).
Argument1: size_t size
Description1: the size of the map array

Name: dauth_nonce_bind_type
Value: 402
Type: enum MHD_DaemonOptionValueDAuthBindNonce
Comment: Control the scope of validity of MHD-generated nonces.
+ This regulates how "nonces" are generated and how "nonces" are checked by #MHD_digest_auth_check() and similar functions.
+ This option allows bitwise OR combination of #MHD_DaemonOptionValueDAuthBindNonce values.
+ When this option is not used then default value is #MHD_D_OPTION_VALUE_DAUTH_BIND_NONCE_NONE.
Argument1: bind_type

Name: dauth_def_nonce_timeout
Value: 403
Comment: Default nonce timeout value (in seconds) used for Digest Auth.
+ Silently ignored if followed by zero value.
+ @see #MHD_digest_auth_check(), MHD_digest_auth_check_digest()
Argument1: unsigned int timeout

Name: dauth_def_max_nc
Value: 404
Comment: Default maximum nc (nonce count) value used for Digest Auth.
+ Silently ignored if followed by zero value.
+ @see #MHD_digest_auth_check(), MHD_digest_auth_check_digest()
Argument1: uint_fast32_t max_nc