- Better UBSAN error messages
- POSIX Advisory Locks polyfills
- Move redbean manual to /.help.txt
- System call memory safety in ASAN mode
- Character classification now does UNICODE
This change brings page faults for precompressed static asset serving
down from 27 to 20 (or fewer) after fork. This is more of an art than
science. Hopefully Blinkenlights can visualize page faults soon.
This also fix a bug where CTRL-C'ing redbean on Linux would kill the
browser process. It furthermore fixes a regression with the APE self
repair process that happened in a recent change.
See #158
A new -s flag has been added to increase silence. This change is
intended to make it a little less weird opening the redbean binary
directly from the browser and seeing an empty terminal window.
- Fix regression with `%lu`
- Added some more headers witnessed in the wild
- Added `-M INT` option to redbean to tune max payload size
- Work around InfoZIP 256 character limit on comment line size
If your redbean `/.init.lua` file defines a global callable named
`OnHttpRequest` then redbean will delegate all serving control to
your function. You may then restore the default serving paths, by
calling the new `Route()`, `RouteHost()`, and `RoutePath()` APIs.
Closes#150
redbean improvements:
- Explicitly disable corking
- Simulate Python regex API for Lua
- Send warmup requests in main process on startup
- Add Class-A granular IPv4 network classification
- Add /statusz page so you can monitor your redbean's health
- Fix regressions on OpenBSD/NetBSD caused by recent changes
- Plug Authorization header into Lua GetUser and GetPass APIs
- Recognize X-Forwarded-{For,Host} from local reverse proxies
- Add many additional functions to redbean Lua server page API
- Report resource usage of child processes on `/` listing page
- Introduce `-a` flag for logging child process resource usage
- Introduce `-t MILLIS` flag and `ProgramTimeout(ms)` init API
- Introduce `-H "Header: value"` flag and `ProgramHeader(k,v)` API
Cosmopolitan Libc improvements:
- Make strerror() simpler
- Make inet_pton() not depend on sscanf()
- Fix OpenExecutable() which broke .data section earlier
- Fix stdio in cases where it overflows kernel tty buffer
- Fix bugs in crash reporting w/o .com.dbg binary present
- Add polyfills for SO_LINGER, SO_RCVTIMEO, and SO_SNDTIMEO
- Polyfill TCP_CORK on BSD and XNU using TCP_NOPUSH magnums
New netcat clone in examples/nc.c:
While testing some of the failure conditions for redbean, I noticed that
BusyBox's `nc` command is pretty busted, if you use it as an interactive
tool, rather than having it be part of a pipeline. Unfortunately this'll
only work on UNIX since Windows doesn't let us poll on stdio and sockets
at the same time because I don't think they want tools like this running
on their platform. So if you want forbidden fruit, it's here so enjoy it
- POSIX regular expressions for Lua
- Improved protocol parsing and encoding
- Additional APIs for ZIP storage retrieval
- Fix st_mode issue on NT for regular files
- Generalized APIs for URL and Host handling
- Worked out the kinks in resource resolution
- Allow for custom error pages like /404.html
The most exciting improvement is dynamic pages will soon be able to use
the executable itself as an object store. it required a heroic technique
for overcoming ETXTBSY restrictions which lets us open the executable in
read/write mode, which means (1) wa can restore the APE header, and (2)
we can potentially containerize redbean extension code so that modules
you download for your redbean online will only impact your redbean.
Here's a list of breaking changes to redbean:
- Remove /tool/net/ prefix from magic ZIP paths
- GetHeader() now returns NIL if header is absent
Here's a list of fixes and enhancements to redbean:
- Support 64-bit ZIP archives
- Record User-Agent header in logs
- Add twelve error handlers to accept()
- Display octal st_mode on listing page
- Show ZIP file comments on listing page
- Restore APE MZ header on redbean startup
- Track request count on redbean index page
- Report server uptime on redbean index page
- Don't bind server socket using SO_REUSEPORT
- Fix#151 where Lua LoadAsset() could free twice
- Report rusage accounting when workers exit w/ -vv
- Use ZIP iattr field as text/plain vs. binary hint
- Add ParseUrl() API for parsing things like a.href
- Add ParseParams() API for parsing HTTP POST bodies
- Add IsAcceptablePath() API for checking dots, etc.
- Add IsValidHttpToken() API for validating sane ASCII
- Add IsAcceptableHostPort() for validating HOST[:PORT]
- Send 400 response to HTTP/1.1 requests without a Host
- Send 403 response if ZIP or file isn't other readable
- Add virtual hosting that tries prepending Host to path
- Route requests based on Host in Request-URI if present
- Host routing will attempt to remove or add the www. prefix
- Sign-extend UNIX timestamps and don't adjust FileTime zone
Here's some of the improvements made to Cosmopolitan Libc:
- Fix ape.S indentation
- Improve consts.sh magnums
- Write pretty good URL parser
- Improve rusage accounting apis
- Bring mremap() closer to working
- Added ZIP APIs which will change
- Check for overflow in reallocarray()
- Remove overly fancy linkage in strerror()
- Fix GDB attach on crash w/ OpenBSD msyscall()
- Make sigqueue() portable to most UNIX distros
- Make integer serialization macros more elegant
- Bring back 34x tprecode8to16() performance boost
- Make malloc() more resilient to absurdly large sizes
If an "index.lua" or "index.html" doesn't exist in zip file or the
filesystem, and no redirects have been defined for it either, then
redbean will render a listing of the zip central directory content
only if the request uri points to the root path.
You can now pass `-D directory` to redbean which will serve assets from
the local filesystem. This is useful for development since it allows us
to skip needing to shut down the server and run InfoZIP when testing an
iteration of a lua server page script.
See #97
If we keep making changes like this, redbean might not be a toy anymore.
Additional steps are also being taken now to prevent ANSI control codes
sent by the client from slipping into logs.
Buffering now has optimal performance, bugs have been fixed, and some
missing apis have been introduced. This implementation is also now more
production worthy since it's less brittle now in terms of system errors.
That's going to help redbean since lua i/o is all based on stdio.
See #97
This change only implements enough Lua support to send a Hello World
response. The redbean executable size increases from ~128kb to 260kb
and the requests per second decreases from 1000k to 600k. That's the
fastest it can go and that's extremely impressive compared to Python
See #97
We can put this back the moment someone requests it. Pain-free garbage
collection for the C language is pretty cool. All it does is overwrite
the return address with a trampoline that calls free(). It's not clear
what it should be named if it's made a public API.
The Windows fork() polyfill (which we implement using pure WIN32)
appears to be acting strangely. It's possible a regression was
introduced by recent changes that our tests didn't catch.
This change is workaround so we can upload a new working binary release
to the Redbean website until we can fully fix the problem.
See also #90
Here's why we got those `Killed: 11` failures on MacOS after modifying
the contentns of the redbean.com executable. If you were inserting a
small file, such as a HelloWorld.html file, then InfoZIP might have
decreased the size of the executable to less than what the Mach-O
section had been expecting.
That's because when zipobj.com put things like time zone data in the
executable, it aligned each zip file entry on a 64-byte boundary, simply
for the sake of readability in binary dumps. But when InfoZIP edited the
file it would rewrite every entry using ZIP's usual 2-byte alignment.
Thus causing shrinkage.
The solution was to reconfigure the linker script so that zip file bits
that get put into the executable at link-time, such as timezone data,
aren't officially part of the executable image, i.e. we don't want the
operating system to load that part.
The original decision to put the linked zip files into the .data section
was mostly made so that when the executable was run in its .com.dbg form
it would still have the zip entries be accessible, even though there was
tons of GNU debug data following the central directory. We're not going
to be able to do that. The .com executable should be the canonical
executable. We have really good tools for automatically attaching and
configuring GDB correctly with debug symbols even when the .com is run.
We'll have to rely on those in cases where zip embedding is used.
See #53
See #54
See #68
We have a webserver demo:
make -j8 o//tool/net/redbean.com
o/tool/net/redbean.com -v
It's been a little bit confusing that until now you had to visit the
following URL in order to see the default web page:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/tool/net/redbean.html
The following URLs will now redirect to the above page, but only if
nothing's been defined for those paths and they would otherwise result
in a 404 response:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.html
This program popped up on Hacker News recently. It's the only modern
compiler I've ever seen that doesn't have dependencies and is easily
modified. So I added all of the missing GNU extensions I like to use
which means it might be possible soon to build on non-Linux and have
third party not vendor gcc binaries.
A new rollup tool now exists for flattening out the headers in a way
that works better for our purposes than cpp. A lot of the API clutter
has been removed. APIs that aren't a sure thing in terms of general
recommendation are now marked internal.
There's now a smoke test for the amalgamation archive and gigantic
header file. So we can now guarantee you can use this project on the
easiest difficulty setting without the gigantic repository.
A website is being created, which is currently a work in progress:
https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/cosmopolitan/index.html
This is done without using Microsoft's internal APIs. MAP_PRIVATE
mappings are copied to the subprocess via a pipe, since Microsoft
doesn't want us to have proper COW pages. MAP_SHARED mappings are
remapped without needing to do any copying. Global variables need
copying along with the stack and the whole heap of anonymous mem.
This actually improves the reliability of the redbean http server
although one shouldn't expect 10k+ connections on a home computer
that isn't running software built to serve like Linux or FreeBSD.
- Emulator can now test the αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε bootloader
- Whipped up a webserver named redbean. It services 150k requests per
second on a single core. Bundling assets inside zip enables extremely
fast serving for two reasons. The first is that zip central directory
lookups go faster than stat() system calls. The second is that both
zip and gzip content-encoding use DEFLATE, therefore, compressed
responses can be served via the sendfile() system call which does an
in-kernel copy directly from the zip executable structure. Also note
that red bean zip executables can be deployed easily to all platforms,
since these native executables work on Linux, Mac, BSD, and Windows.
- Address sanitizer now works very well
