Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[7.4.0] - 2019-11-25

• (http client) Add support for multipart HTTP POST upload
• (ixsentry) Add support for uploading a minidump to sentry

[7.3.5] - 2019-11-20

• On Darwin SSL, add ability to skip peer verification.

[7.3.4] - 2019-11-20

• 32-bits compile fix, courtesy of @fcojavmc

[7.3.1] - 2019-11-16

• ws proxy_server / remote server close not forwarded to the client

[7.3.0] - 2019-11-15

• New ws command: ws proxy_server.

[7.2.2] - 2019-11-01

• Tag a release + minor reformating.

[7.2.1] - 2019-10-26

• Add unittest to IXSentryClient to lua backtrace parsing code

[7.2.0] - 2019-10-24

• Add cobra_metrics_to_redis sub-command to create streams for each cobra metric event being received.

[7.1.0] - 2019-10-13

• Add client support for websocket subprotocol. Look for the new addSubProtocol method for details.

[7.0.0] - 2019-10-01

• TLS support in server code, only implemented for the OpenSSL SSL backend for now.

[6.3.4] - 2019-09-30

• all ws subcommands propagate tls options to servers (unimplemented) or ws or http client (implemented) (contributed by Matt DeBoer)

[6.3.3] - 2019-09-30

• ws has a --version option

[6.3.2] - 2019-09-29

• (http + websocket clients) can specify cacert and some other tls options (not implemented on all backend). This makes it so that server certs can finally be validated on windows.

[6.3.1] - 2019-09-29

• Add ability to use OpenSSL on apple platforms.

[6.3.0] - 2019-09-28

• ixcobra / fix crash in CobraConnection::publishNext when the queue is empty + handle CobraConnection_PublishMode_Batch in CobraMetricsThreadedPublisher

[6.2.9] - 2019-09-27

• mbedtls fixes / the unittest now pass on macOS, and hopefully will on Windows/AppVeyor as well.

[6.2.8] - 2019-09-26

• Http server: add options to ws https to redirect all requests to a given url. POST requests will get a 200 and an empty response.

ws httpd -L --redirect_url https://www.google.com

[6.2.7] - 2019-09-25

• Stop having ws send subcommand send a binary message in text mode, which would cause error in make ws_test shell script test.

[6.2.6] - 2019-09-24

• Fix 2 race conditions detected with TSan, one in CobraMetricsPublisher::push and another one in WebSocketTransport::sendData (that one was bad).

[6.2.5] - 2019-09-23

• Add simple Redis Server which is only capable of doing publish / subscribe. New ws redis_server sub-command to use it. The server is used in the unittest, so that we can run on CI in environment where redis isn not available like github actions env.

[6.2.4] - 2019-09-22

• Add options to configure TLS ; contributed by Matt DeBoer. Only implemented for OpenSSL TLS backend for now.

[6.2.3] - 2019-09-21

• Fix crash in the Linux unittest in the HTTP client code, in Socket::readBytes
• Cobra Metrics Publisher code returns the message id of the message that got published, to be used to validated that it got sent properly when receiving an ack.

[6.2.2] - 2019-09-19

• In DNS lookup code, make sure the weak pointer we use lives through the expected scope (if branch)

[6.2.1] - 2019-09-17

• On error while doing a client handshake, additionally display port number next to the host name

[6.2.0] - 2019-09-09

• websocket and http server: server does not close the bound client socket in many cases
• improve some websocket error messages
• add a utility function with unittest to parse status line and stop using scanf which triggers warnings on Windows
• update ws CLI11 (our command line argument parsing library) to the latest, which fix a compiler bug about optional

[6.1.0] - 2019-09-08

• move poll wrapper on top of select (only used on Windows) to the ix namespace

[6.0.1] - 2019-09-05

• add cobra metrics publisher + server unittest
• add cobra client + server unittest
• ws snake (cobra simple server) add basic support for unsubscription + subscribe send the proper subscription data + redis client subscription can be cancelled
• IXCobraConnection / pdu handlers can crash if they receive json data which is not an object

[6.0.0] - 2019-09-04

• all client autobahn test should pass !
• zlib/deflate has a bug with windowsbits == 8, so we silently upgrade it to 9/ (fix autobahn test 13.X which uses 8 for the windows size)

[5.2.0] - 2019-09-04

• Fragmentation: for sent messages which are compressed, the continuation fragments should not have the rsv1 bit set (fix all autobahn tests for zlib compression 12.X)
• Websocket Server / do a case insensitive string search when looking for an Upgrade header whose value is websocket. (some client use WebSocket with some upper-case characters)

[5.1.9] - 2019-09-03

• ws autobahn / report progress with spdlog::info to get timing info
• ws autobahn / use condition variables for stopping test case + add more logging on errors

[5.1.8] - 2019-09-03

• Per message deflate/compression: handle fragmented messages (fix autobahn test: 12.1.X and probably others)

[5.1.7] - 2019-09-03

• Receiving invalid UTF-8 TEXT message should fail and close the connection (fix remaining autobahn test: 6.X UTF-8 Handling)

[5.1.6] - 2019-09-03

• Sending invalid UTF-8 TEXT message should fail and close the connection (fix remaining autobahn test: 6.X UTF-8 Handling)
• Fix failing unittest which was sending binary data in text mode with WebSocket::send to call properly call WebSocket::sendBinary instead.
• Validate that the reason is proper utf-8. (fix autobahn test 7.5.1)
• Validate close codes. Autobahn 7.9.*

[5.1.5] - 2019-09-03

Framentation: data and continuation blocks received out of order (fix autobahn test: 5.9 through 5.20 Fragmentation)

[5.1.4] - 2019-09-03

Sending invalid UTF-8 TEXT message should fail and close the connection (fix tons of autobahn test: 6.X UTF-8 Handling)

[5.1.3] - 2019-09-03

Message type (TEXT or BINARY) is invalid for received fragmented messages (fix autobahn test: 5.3 through 5.8 Fragmentation)

[5.1.2] - 2019-09-02

Ping and Pong messages cannot be fragmented (fix autobahn test: 5.1 and 5.2 Fragmentation)

[5.1.1] - 2019-09-01

Close connections when reserved bits are used (fix autobahn test: 3.X Reserved Bits)

[5.1.0] - 2019-08-31

• ws autobahn / Add code to test websocket client compliance with the autobahn test-suite
• add utf-8 validation code, not hooked up properly yet
• Ping received with a payload too large (> 125 bytes) trigger a connection closure
• cobra / add tracking about published messages
• cobra / publish returns a message id, that can be used when
• cobra / new message type in the message received handler when publish/ok is received (can be used to implement an ack system).

[5.0.9] - 2019-08-30

• User-Agent header is set when not specified.
• New option to cap the max wait between reconnection attempts. Still default to 10s. (setMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries).

ws connect --max_wait 5000 ws://example.com # will only wait 5 seconds max between reconnection attempts

[5.0.7] - 2019-08-23

• WebSocket: add new option to pass in extra HTTP headers when connecting.
• ws connect add new option (-H, works like curl) to pass in extra HTTP headers when connecting

If you run against ws echo_server you will see the headers being received printed in the terminal.

ws connect -H "foo: bar" -H "baz: buz" ws://127.0.0.1:8008

• CobraConnection: sets a unique id field for all messages sent to cobra.
• CobraConnection: sets a counter as a field for each event published.

[5.0.6] - 2019-08-22

• Windows: silly compile error (poll should be in the global namespace)

[5.0.5] - 2019-08-22

• Windows: use select instead of WSAPoll, through a poll wrapper

[5.0.4] - 2019-08-20

• Windows build fixes (there was a problem with the use of ::poll that has a different name on Windows (WSAPoll))

[5.0.3] - 2019-08-14

• CobraMetricThreadedPublisher _enable flag is an atomic, and CobraMetricsPublisher is enabled by default

[5.0.2] - 2019-08-01

• ws cobra_subscribe has a new -q (quiet) option
• ws cobra_subscribe knows to and display msg stats (count and # of messages received per second)
• ws cobra_subscribe, cobra_to_statsd and cobra_to_sentry commands have a new option, --filter to restrict the events they want to receive

[5.0.1] - 2019-07-25

• ws connect command has a new option to send in binary mode (still default to text)
• ws connect command has readline history thanks to libnoise-cpp. Now ws connect one can use using arrows to lookup previous sent messages and edit them

[5.0.0] - 2019-06-23

Changed

• New HTTP server / still very early. ws gained a new command, httpd can run a simple webserver serving local files.
• IXDNSLookup. Uses weak pointer + smart_ptr + shared_from_this instead of static sets + mutex to handle object going away before dns lookup has resolved
• cobra_to_sentry / backtraces are reversed and line number is not extracted correctly
• mbedtls and zlib are searched with find_package, and we use the vendored version if nothing is found
• travis CI uses g++ on Linux

[4.0.0] - 2019-06-09

Changed

• WebSocket::send() sends message in TEXT mode by default
• WebSocketMessage sets a new binary field, which tells whether the received incoming message is binary or text
• WebSocket::send takes a third arg, binary which default to true (can be text too)
• WebSocket callback only take one object, a const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg
• Add explicit WebSocket::sendBinary method
• New headers + WebSocketMessage class to hold message data, still not used across the board
• Add test/compatibility folder with small servers and clients written in different languages and different libraries to test compatibility.
• ws echo_server has a -g option to print a greeting message on connect
• IXSocketMbedTLS: better error handling in close and connect

[3.1.2] - 2019-06-06

Added

• ws connect has a -x option to disable per message deflate
• Add WebSocket::disablePerMessageDeflate() option.

[3.0.0] - 2019-06-xx

Changed

• TLS, aka SSL works on Windows (websocket and http clients)
• ws command line tool build on Windows
• Async API for HttpClient
• HttpClient API changed to use shared_ptr for response and request