The C library reads /etc/localtime on the first use of local time and
connects to /dev/log on the first syslog() call. With a chroot before
either, every local time became UTC and every syslog message was lost.
The time zone is now loaded before chroot() and openlog() connects at
once. The chroot entry of 3proxy.cfg(5) lists what PAM, LDAP and ODBC
still need inside the chroot.
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-s takes the directions to splice: -s1 what the server sends (downloads),
-s2 what the client sends (uploads), -s3 both. -s alone (-s7) splices both
only where it pays, as -s5 and -s6 do for one direction:
- a body of known length is spliced if at least 16K of it is left to read
once what is already buffered is counted, so an answer read whole with
its headers is just copied;
- a stream of unknown length starts copied, is spliced after 2 reads in a
row of at least 16K, and goes back to copying after 3 splices in a row
of less than 4K, once its pipe is empty.
Pipes are made when a direction first splices and kept with the
connection for its next mappings, so a kept-alive connection no longer
makes and closes two pipes per request; one left holding data by an
error or a timeout is closed. The direction not spliced keeps its buffer.
Before, -s spliced both directions and every mapping made both pipes,
which made small answers slower than without splice: with kept-alive
50K answers 2 pipe2() and 4 close() per request, now none.
Also corrects the default buffer size in the -b help (65536 for TCP).
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extport binds a local port out of its range and connects from it. A port
which is free to bind may still be half of a pair which is closing from an
earlier connection to the same destination, and Windows fails the connect
with WSAEADDRINUSE where other systems fail the bind and fall back. The
request then failed with error 13 for a reason another port would have
avoided, which is what the range is searched for in the first place.
Retry the connect with another port from the range. Only for that error, so
a destination which is simply unreachable still costs one attempt, and out of
the same ten tries the bind already spends, so the attempts parentretries
makes are not multiplied. EADDRINUSE joins the errno values proxy.h maps to
their Winsock numbers, without which the test would never match on Windows.
parent_ports gave its three services one window between them, which is how
the case met the collision on the Windows runner. Each has its own now.
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nserver and authnserver parse their argument with parsehost(), which reads
the first colon as the address/port separator, so a bare IPv6 address picks
up a bogus port number. Document the bracket form in 3proxy.cfg(5) and in
both HOWTOs.
Refs #1275, #460
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pop3p, imapp and smtpp are built with MAILPROXY=true, and ftppr and the
ftp:// scheme of the HTTP proxy with FTP=true; with CMake the switches are
3PROXY_USE_MAILPROXY and 3PROXY_USE_FTP. Neither is in a default build, and
the standalone binaries follow what was built.
A configuration naming one of them is still read either way. The three mail
protocols amount to a STARTTLS negotiation now that mail is carried over
TLS, so without a proxy of their own those names are tlspr speaking the
protocol: the file holds a stand-in which sets the protocol for the
connection and returns tlspr for the caller to run, which serves the
service name and a parent chain alike and leaves conf.c and the redirect
table untouched. FTP has no such fallback, so the service is known, answers
nothing and logs the refusal.
The Linux workflow builds both, so all of it is still compiled and run.
A rewrite only reached the copy of the request kept for logging. On a
direct connection the server is sent the request line held in the header
buffer, which was parsed and reduced to its path before the filters ran, so
the rewrite showed up in the log and nowhere else. Through an HTTP parent
the rewritten copy is what goes out, which is why it appeared to work
there.
Splice the new path back into that buffer. The destination was chosen, and
the access rules applied to it, before the rewrite happened, so a rewrite
that changes the method or the authority is left alone: acting on it would
send the request somewhere the rules never saw. Say so in the manual.
The copy needed to notice a rewrite is only taken when a request filter
exists, so a proxy without one does no extra work.
The filter walked its list of access rules but tested the first entry each
time round, so anything pcre_extend appended was never consulted and the
command did nothing at all. Test the entry the loop is on.
pcre_extend takes an ACE and no FILTER_ACTION - the rule keeps the action it
was given - so correct the manual, which documented an argument the command
does not read.
The tests cover matching and denial, rule order, client headers, matching
options, the access rule a pcre rule carries, pcre_extend, and rewriting a
reply header and reply data. Request rewriting is covered through an HTTP
parent, which is the path where it reaches the wire.
The MITM case reached its origin by address, so it depended on the
certificate 3proxy spoofs carrying an IP alternative name. It does when the
upstream certificate is copied, which is what happens on Linux and macOS
but not on Windows, where the client then refused the connection. Point a
name at 127.0.0.1 with nsrecord instead, and check the chain rather than
the name: an intercepted certificate names the upstream host, not the one
that was asked for. The log assertions gain from it too, since the name is
better evidence than a port that the request was seen.
nsrecord needs nserver as well as nscache, and has to follow nscache, so
say that in the manual: the record goes into the table nscache allocates,
and the table is only consulted when nserver is set.
The port-range fallback was exercised with a range the same case had
already used, so on a busy machine it could fail to bind for the ordinary
reason rather than the one under test. Use privileged ports, which nothing
can take.
When a case fails, print what its servers wrote: the reason usually goes to
the server's stderr, which was captured and then thrown away.
After 'parent ha' sends the PROXY v1 header, continue negotiating the
real parent protocol (SOCKS5/CONNECT/etc.) instead of returning early.
'ha' used alone still sends the header and relays plain TCP.
- authcache switched to use hashtables, size parameter added
- overflow fixed on hashinit
- hashtable prefers new values on insert if table is full
- hashtable is able to compact/grow
`proxy -g8000,3,10`
First parameter is average read size we want to keep, second parameter is
minimal number of packets in the same direction to apply algorythm,
last value is delay added after polling and prior to reading data.
An example above adds 10 millisecond delay before reading data if average
polling size is below 8000 bytes and 3 read operations are made in the same
direction. It's specially usefule with splice. `logdump 1 1` is useful
to see how grace delays work, choose delay value to avoid filling the read
pipe/buffer (typically 64K) but keep the request sizes close to chosen average
on large file upload/download.
