It has three settings: on, off, and 'only until session starts'. The
idea of the last one is that if you use something like 'ssh -v' as
your proxy command, you probably wanted to see the initial SSH
connection-setup messages while you were waiting to see if the
connection would be set up successfully at all, but probably _didn't_
want a slew of diagnostics from rekeys disrupting your terminal in
mid-emacs once the session had got properly under way.
Default is off, to avoid startling people used to the old behaviour. I
wonder if I should have set it more aggressively, though.
I'm about to want to make a change to all those functions at once, and
since they're almost identical, it seemed easiest to pull them out
into a common helper. The new source file be_misc.c is intended to
contain helper code common to all network back ends (crypto and
non-crypto, in particular), and initially it contains a
backend_socket_log() function which is the common part of ssh_log(),
telnet_log(), rlogin_log() etc.
We've always had the back-end code unconditionally print 'Looking up
host' before calling name_lookup. But name_lookup doesn't always do an
actual lookup - in cases where the connection will be proxied and
we're configured to let the proxy do the DNS for us, it just calls
sk_nonamelookup to return a dummy SockAddr with the unresolved name
still in it. It's better to print a message that varies depending on
whether we're _really_ doing DNS or not, e.g. so that people can tell
the difference between DNS failure and proxy misconfiguration.
Hence, those log messages are now generated inside name_lookup(),
which takes a couple of extra parameters for the purpose - a frontend
pointer to pass to logevent(), and a reason string so that it can say
what the hostname it's (optionally) looking up is going to be used
for. (The latter is intended for possible use in logging subsidiary
lookups for port forwarding, though the moment I haven't changed
the current setup where those connection setups aren't logged in
detail - we just pass NULL in that situation.)
A Plink invocation of the form 'plink -shareexists <session>' tests
for a currently live connection-sharing upstream for the session in
question. <session> can be any syntax you'd use with Plink to make the
actual connection (a host/port number, a bare saved session name,
-load, whatever).
I envisage this being useful for things like adaptive proxying - e.g.
if you want to connect to host A which you can't route to directly,
and you might already have a connection to either of hosts B or C
which are viable proxies, then you could write a proxy shell script
which checks whether you already have an upstream for B or C and goes
via whichever one is currently active.
Testing for the upstream's existence has to be done by actually
connecting to its socket, because on Unix the mere existence of a
Unix-domain socket file doesn't guarantee that there's a process
listening to it. So we make a test connection, and then immediately
disconnect; hence, that shows up in the upstream's event log.
Having found a lot of unfixed constness issues in recent development,
I thought perhaps it was time to get proactive, so I compiled the
whole codebase with -Wwrite-strings. That turned up a huge load of
const problems, which I've fixed in this commit: the Unix build now
goes cleanly through with -Wwrite-strings, and the Windows build is as
close as I could get it (there are some lingering issues due to
occasional Windows API functions like AcquireCredentialsHandle not
having the right constness).
Notable fallout beyond the purely mechanical changing of types:
- the stuff saved by cmdline_save_param() is now explicitly
dupstr()ed, and freed in cmdline_run_saved.
- I couldn't make both string arguments to cmdline_process_param()
const, because it intentionally writes to one of them in the case
where it's the argument to -pw (in the vain hope of being at least
slightly friendly to 'ps'), so elsewhere I had to temporarily
dupstr() something for the sake of passing it to that function
- I had to invent a silly parallel version of const_cmp() so I could
pass const string literals in to lookup functions.
- stripslashes() in pscp.c and psftp.c has the annoying strchr nature
I'm not actually sure why we've always had back ends notify ldisc of
changes to echo/edit settings by giving ldisc_send(ldisc,NULL,0,0) a
special meaning, instead of by having a separate dedicated notify
function with its own prototype and parameter set. Coverity's recent
observation that the two kinds of call don't even have the same
requirements on the ldisc (particularly, whether ldisc->term can be
NULL) makes me realise that it's really high time I separated the two
conceptually different operations into actually different functions.
While I'm here, I've renamed the confusing ldisc_update() function
which that special operation ends up feeding to, because it's not
actually a function applying to an ldisc - it applies to a front end.
So ldisc_send(ldisc,NULL,0,0) is now ldisc_echoedit_update(ldisc), and
that in turn figures out the current echo/edit settings before passing
them on to frontend_echoedit_update(). I think that should be clearer.
I've gone through everywhere we handle host names / addresses (on
command lines, in PuTTY config, in port forwarding, in X display
names, in host key storage...) and tried to make them handle IPv6
literals sensibly, by using the host_str* functions I introduced in my
previous commit. Generally it's now OK to use a bracketed IPv6 literal
anywhere a hostname might have been valid; in a few cases where no
ambiguity exists (e.g. no :port suffix is permitted anyway)
unbracketed IPv6 literals are also acceptable.
[originally from svn r10120]
treat all socket closures as clean exits (because the protocol doesn't
provide for transferring a process exit code) could usefully at least
treat _socket errors_ as unclean exits. Patch the Telnet, Rlogin and
Raw backends to retain that information and return INT_MAX to the
frontend.
I wasn't sure whether it was better to solve this by modifying each
affected frontend, or each affected backend. I chose the latter, but
neither is really ideal; this is the sort of thing that makes me wish
we had a piece of fixed middleware in between, independent of both
platform and protocol.
[originally from svn r9730]
data channels. Should comprehensively fix 'half-closed', in principle,
though it's a big and complicated change and so there's a good chance
I've made at least one mistake somewhere.
All connections should now be rigorous about propagating end-of-file
(or end-of-data-stream, or socket shutdown, or whatever) independently
in both directions, except in frontends with no mechanism for sending
explicit EOF (e.g. interactive terminal windows) or backends which are
basically always used for interactive sessions so it's unlikely that
an application would be depending on independent EOF (telnet, rlogin).
EOF should now never accidentally be sent while there's still buffered
data to go out before it. (May help fix 'portfwd-corrupt', and also I
noticed recently that the ssh main session channel can accidentally
have MSG_EOF sent before the output bufchain is clear, leading to
embarrassment when it subsequently does send the output).
[originally from svn r9279]
'Config' in putty.h, which stores all PuTTY's settings and includes an
arbitrary length limit on every single one of those settings which is
stored in string form. In place of it is 'Conf', an opaque data type
everywhere outside the new file conf.c, which stores a list of (key,
value) pairs in which every key contains an integer identifying a
configuration setting, and for some of those integers the key also
contains extra parts (so that, for instance, CONF_environmt is a
string-to-string mapping). Everywhere that a Config was previously
used, a Conf is now; everywhere there was a Config structure copy,
conf_copy() is called; every lookup, adjustment, load and save
operation on a Config has been rewritten; and there's a mechanism for
serialising a Conf into a binary blob and back for use with Duplicate
Session.
User-visible effects of this change _should_ be minimal, though I
don't doubt I've introduced one or two bugs here and there which will
eventually be found. The _intended_ visible effects of this change are
that all arbitrary limits on configuration strings and lists (e.g.
limit on number of port forwardings) should now disappear; that list
boxes in the configuration will now be displayed in a sorted order
rather than the arbitrary order in which they were added to the list
(since the underlying data structure is now a sorted tree234 rather
than an ad-hoc comma-separated string); and one more specific change,
which is that local and dynamic port forwardings on the same port
number are now mutually exclusive in the configuration (putting 'D' in
the key rather than the value was a mistake in the first place).
One other reorganisation as a result of this is that I've moved all
the dialog.c standard handlers (dlg_stdeditbox_handler and friends)
out into config.c, because I can't really justify calling them generic
any more. When they took a pointer to an arbitrary structure type and
the offset of a field within that structure, they were independent of
whether that structure was a Config or something completely different,
but now they really do expect to talk to a Conf, which can _only_ be
used for PuTTY configuration, so I've renamed them all things like
conf_editbox_handler and moved them out of the nominally independent
dialog-box management module into the PuTTY-specific config.c.
[originally from svn r9214]
if we have no better ideas, with UI shamelessly stolen from Quest PuTTY.
Off by default, which effectively reverts the change to using the local
username by default that came in with GSSAPI support in r8138. Anyone wanting
seamless single sign-on will need to set the new option. (The previous
default behaviour was getting in the way in ad-hoc scenarios.)
Note that the PSCP and Unix-Plink behaviour of using the local username by
default have remained unchanged throughout; they are not affected by the new
option. Not sure if that's the Right Thing.
[originally from svn r8324]
[r8138 == de5dd9d65c]
other reasons and I noticed that the list of TELOPTs is given twice
and hence needs to be kept in sync. Replace with my now-standard
second-order-macro approach which allows the list to be maintained
in only one place.
[originally from svn r8156]
to manually tweak the host name and port number under which the SSH
host key is read and written.
I've put it in the cross-platform Connection panel. Partly under the
flimsy pretext that other backends _can_ use it if they so wish (and
in fact it overrides the host name for title-bar purposes in all
network backends, though it has no other effect in anything but
SSH); but mostly because the SSH panel was too full already :-)
[originally from svn r8033]
Should be no significant change in behaviour.
(Well, entering usernames containing commas on Plink's command line will be
a little harder now.)
[originally from svn r7628]
instead of the previous rate of one per character. In `Flush log
file frequently' mode, the latter was causing excessive slowdown due
to fflush()ing once per byte.
[originally from svn r7076]
it's NULL. Since we already have one back end (uxpty) which doesn't
in fact talk to a network socket, and may well have more soon, I'm
replacing this TCP/IP-centric function with a nice neutral
`connected' function returning a boolean. Nothing else about its
semantics has currently changed.
[originally from svn r6810]
compiles, since I don't have a suitably awkward server to run it
against; but Ben reviewed the patch before checkin so we can share
the blame if it doesn't work.)
[originally from svn r5512]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
of polishing to bring them to what I think should in principle be
release quality. Unlike the unfix.org patches themselves, this
checkin enables IPv6 by default; if you want to leave it out, you
have to build with COMPAT=-DNO_IPV6.
I have tested that this compiles on Visual C 7 (so the nightlies
_should_ acquire IPv6 support without missing a beat), but since I
don't have IPv6 set up myself I haven't actually tested that it
_works_. It still seems to make correct IPv4 connections, but that's
all I've been able to verify for myself. Further testing is needed.
[originally from svn r5047]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
mid-session if we are not using SSHv1. I've done this by introducing
a generic `cfg_info' function which every back end can use to
communicate an int's worth of data to setup_config_box; in SSH
that's the protocol version in use, and in everything else it's
currently zero.
[originally from svn r5040]
[r5031 == d77102a8d5]
which pretty much any module can call to request a call-back in the
future. So terminal.c can do its own handling of blinking, visual
bells and deferred screen updates, without having to rely on
term_update() being called 50 times a second (fixes: pterm-timer);
and ssh.c and telnet.c both invoke a new module pinger.c which takes
care of sending keepalives, so they get sent uniformly in all front
ends (fixes: plink-keepalives, unix-keepalives).
[originally from svn r4906]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
of the SSH servers I conveniently have access to (Debian stable OpenSSH --
3.4p1 -- and lshd) seem to take a blind bit of notice, but the channel
requests look fine to me in the packet log.
I've included all the signals explicitly defined by
draft-ietf-secsh-connect-19, but I've put the more obscure ones in a submenu
of the specials menu; there's therefore been some minor upheaval to support
such submenus.
[originally from svn r4652]
the same window (Windows version only).
Policy change: it's now the backend's responsibility to call
update_specials_menu() at the start of a session (or whenever it feels ready),
if it has any special commands. Otherwise the menu won't be displayed.
[originally from svn r4649]
No very good reason, but I've occasionally wanted to frob it to see if it
makes any difference to problems I'm having, and it was easy.
Tested that it does actually cause keepalives on Windows (with tcpdump);
should also work on Unix. Not implemented on Mac (does nothing), but then
neither is TCP_NODELAY.
Quite a big checkin, much of which is adding `keepalive' alongside `nodelay'
in network function calls.
[originally from svn r4309]
sk_new() on invocation; these functions become responsible for (eventually)
freeing it. The caller must not do anything with 'addr' after it's been passed
in. (Ick.)
Why:
A SOCKS5 crash appears to have been caused by overzealous freeing of
a SockAddr (ssh.c:1.257 [r2492]), which for proxied connections is
squirreled away long-term (and this can't easily be avoided).
It would have been nice to make a copy of the SockAddr, in case the caller has
a use for it, but one of the implementations (uxnet.c) hides a "struct
addrinfo" in there, and we have no defined way to duplicate those. (None of the
current callers _do_ have a further use for the SockAddr.)
As far as I can tell, everything _except_ proxying only needs addr for the
duration of the call, so sk_addr_free()s immediately. If I'm mistaken, it
should at least be easier to find the offending free()...
[originally from svn r3383]
[r2492 == bdd6633970]
`Special Command' menu, in which any backend can place its own list
of magical things the user might want to ask the backend to do. In
particular I've implemented the recently proposed "break" extension
in SSH2 using this mechanism.
NB this checkin slightly breaks the Mac build, since it needs to
provide at least a stub form of update_specials_menu().
[originally from svn r3054]
malloc functions, which automatically cast to the same type they're
allocating the size of. Should prevent any future errors involving
mallocing the size of the wrong structure type, and will also make
life easier if we ever need to turn the PuTTY core code from real C
into C++-friendly C. I haven't touched the Mac frontend in this
checkin because I couldn't compile or test it.
[originally from svn r3014]
areas of the code. Not all back-ends have been tested, but Telnet and SSH
behave reasonably.
Incidentally, almost all of this patch was written through Mac PuTTY,
admittedly over a Telnet connection.
[originally from svn r2615]
holdout static I hadn't noticed; unicode.c had one too; and a large
number of statics that were perfectly OK due to being constants have
been made `const', with assorted `const' repercussions all over the
place. I now declare `remove-statics' to be fixed.
[originally from svn r2594]
proxy-indirection network functions (name_lookup, new_connection,
new_listener) takes a `const Config *' as an argument, and extracts
enough information from it before returning to handle that
particular network operation in accordance with the proxy settings
it specifies. This involved {win,ux}net.c due to a `const'
repercussion.
[originally from svn r2567]
and have a function to pass in a new one. (Well, actually several
back ends don't actually bother to do this because they need nothing
out of Config after the initial setup phase, but they could if they
wanted to.)
[originally from svn r2561]
any buffers used internally by telnet.c as unsigned char, and cast to/from
char * when interacting with the rest of PuTTY. Not actually tested, since
I'm some way from actually being able to link this yet.
Also clean up a couple of style warnings from Apple's compilers.
[originally from svn r2447]
SockAddr, which just contains an unresolved hostname and is created
by a stub function in *net.c. It's an error to pass this to most of
the real-meat functions in *net.c; these fake addresses should have
been dealt with by the time they get down that far. proxy.c now
contains name_lookup(), a wrapper on sk_namelookup() which decides
whether or not to do real DNS, and the individual proxy
implementations each deal sensibly with being handed an unresolved
address and avoid ever passing one down to *net.c.
[originally from svn r2353]
since the Dawn O' Time, and consisted of me putting the two halves
of a short-circuiting bounds check the wrong way round: instead of
`p_in_range && *p', I had `*p && p_in_range'. Oops. valgrind rocks.
[originally from svn r2174]
source files in which it's no longer required (it was previously
required in anything that included <putty.h>, but not any more).
Also moved a couple of stray bits of exposed WinSock back into
winnet.c (getservbyname from ssh.c and AF_INET from proxy.c).
[originally from svn r2160]
Simon Tatham
Jacob Nevins
Ben Harris