On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Patrick Pelletier <ppellet...@oblong.com> wrote: > On 11/19/2012 06:48 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Patrick Pelletier >> <ppellet...@oblong.com <mailto:ppellet...@oblong.com>> wrote: >> [...] >> >> Not sure what the proper solution is for this, though. I'm not >> enough of a sockets expert. Although I'm curious why we need to >> create the socket before we've looked up the name. If we looked up >> the name first, then we could create the socket with the proper >> address family in the first place. >> >> >> My first thought would be that binding before doing the name lookup >> isn't going to work: we need to find out what address family we're going >> to connect to before we can find out what address family we're going to >> bind to? > > > I definitely agree that is what ought to be happening. Unfortunately, I'm > having trouble understanding the code well enough in order to submit a patch > to make it do that. > > Here's what I've figured out so far: > > * In http.c, evhttp_connection_connect_ calls bind_socket, which creates the > socket (with AF_INET, which is what we don't want). The file descriptor is > stored in evcon->fd, and also stored in the bufferevent with > bufferevent_setfd.
Hi, if I understand correct, "AF_INET" is not installed always. First "make_addrinfo()" is called in "bind_socket()" and installing "AF_UNSPEC" https://github.com/libevent/libevent/blob/0c2bacca43ffe452d4f5cdc4b57fd29a7795777d/http.c#L4057 With means that and IPV4 and IPV6 is allowed. Than only if "ai" is NULL in "bind_socket_ai()", "AF_INET" is installed. in https://github.com/libevent/libevent/blob/0c2bacca43ffe452d4f5cdc4b57fd29a7795777d/http.c#L4018 But "ai" can't be NULL in "bind_socket_ai()", see https://github.com/libevent/libevent/blob/0c2bacca43ffe452d4f5cdc4b57fd29a7795777d/http.c#L4088 > > * Then, evhttp_connection_connect_ calls bufferevent_socket_connect_hostname > > * In bufferevent_sock.c, bufferevent_socket_connect_hostname calls > evutil_getaddrinfo_async_, with bufferevent_connect_getaddrinfo_cb as the > callback > > * bufferevent_connect_getaddrinfo_cb calls bufferevent_socket_connect > > * bufferevent_socket_connect checks if fd < 0, and calls evutil_socket to > create the socket if necessary > > So, at first glance, it seems like we could avoid creating the socket in > evhttp_connection_connect_, and just wait for bufferevent_socket_connect to > create the socket for us, after it has done the name lookup, and knows what > the proper address family is. > > The only potential problem seemed to be that the http code wants the file > descriptor in evcon->fd, in addition to being in the buffer event. > > So, I tried the following: > > * Commented out the lines from "bind_socket" through "bufferevent_setfd" in > evhttp_connection_connect_ > > * In evhttp_error_cb (which seems to be a callback for more than just > errors), I added "evcon->fd = bufferevent_getfd(bufev);" in the (currently > empty) if branch for what == BEV_EVENT_CONNECTED, under the theory that this > would compensate for not having set evcon->fd in evhttp_connection_connect_ > > However, when I did this, the tests failed horribly, so there's obviously > something I don't understand about what's happening and the order in which > it needs to happen. > > >> Or alternatively, if we have already bound to a socket, we need to limit >> our name lookup to the address family we bound to. If we've bound to >> 127.0.0.1, there's no point in doing an AF_UNSPEC name lookup -- we can >> only connect to AF_INET addresses in that case. > > > That's a potential workaround that would allow localhost (or any dual-stack > host) to work, but it would still mean that evhttp client connections are > always IPv4-only, and wouldn't work with IPv6-only hosts. So it's better > than the current situation, but not entirely satisfying. > > > --Patrick > > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with > unsubscribe libevent-users in the body. -- Azat Khuzhin *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.