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FETCH(3)		    Library Functions Manual		      FETCH(3)

NAME
       fetchMakeURL,  fetchParseURL,  fetchFreeURL, fetchXGetURL, fetchGetURL,
       fetchPutURL, fetchStatURL, fetchListURL,	fetchXGet, fetchGet, fetchPut,
       fetchStat,  fetchList,	fetchXGetFile,	 fetchGetFile,	 fetchPutFile,
       fetchStatFile,	   fetchListFile,     fetchXGetHTTP,	 fetchGetHTTP,
       fetchPutHTTP, fetchStatHTTP, fetchListHTTP, fetchReqHTTP, fetchXGetFTP,
       fetchGetFTP, fetchPutFTP, fetchStatFTP, fetchListFTP --	file  transfer
       functions

LIBRARY
       File Transfer Library (libfetch,	-lfetch)

SYNOPSIS
       #include	<sys/param.h>
       #include	<stdio.h>
       #include	<fetch.h>

       struct url *
       fetchMakeURL(const   char   *scheme,   const   char  *host,  int	 port,
	   const char *doc, const char *user, const char *pwd);

       struct url *
       fetchParseURL(const char	*URL);

       void
       fetchFreeURL(struct url *u);

       FILE *
       fetchXGetURL(const char *URL, struct url_stat *us, const	char *flags);

       FILE *
       fetchGetURL(const char *URL, const char *flags);

       FILE *
       fetchPutURL(const char *URL, const char *flags);

       int
       fetchStatURL(const char *URL, struct url_stat *us, const	char *flags);

       struct url_ent *
       fetchListURL(const char *URL, const char	*flags);

       FILE *
       fetchXGet(struct	url *u,	struct url_stat	*us, const char	*flags);

       FILE *
       fetchGet(struct url *u, const char *flags);

       FILE *
       fetchPut(struct url *u, const char *flags);

       int
       fetchStat(struct	url *u,	struct url_stat	*us, const char	*flags);

       struct url_ent *
       fetchList(struct	url *u,	const char *flags);

       FILE *
       fetchXGetFile(struct url	*u, struct url_stat *us, const char *flags);

       FILE *
       fetchGetFile(struct url *u, const char *flags);

       FILE *
       fetchPutFile(struct url *u, const char *flags);

       int
       fetchStatFile(struct url	*u, struct url_stat *us, const char *flags);

       struct url_ent *
       fetchListFile(struct url	*u, const char *flags);

       FILE *
       fetchXGetHTTP(struct url	*u, struct url_stat *us, const char *flags);

       FILE *
       fetchGetHTTP(struct url *u, const char *flags);

       FILE *
       fetchPutHTTP(struct url *u, const char *flags);

       int
       fetchStatHTTP(struct url	*u, struct url_stat *us, const char *flags);

       struct url_ent *
       fetchListHTTP(struct url	*u, const char *flags);

       FILE *
       fetchReqHTTP(struct url *u, const  char	*method,  const	 char  *flags,
	   const char *content_type, const char	*body);

       FILE *
       fetchXGetFTP(struct url *u, struct url_stat *us,	const char *flags);

       FILE *
       fetchGetFTP(struct url *u, const	char *flags);

       FILE *
       fetchPutFTP(struct url *u, const	char *flags);

       int
       fetchStatFTP(struct url *u, struct url_stat *us,	const char *flags);

       struct url_ent *
       fetchListFTP(struct url *u, const char *flags);

DESCRIPTION
       These  functions	 implement a high-level	library	for retrieving and up-
       loading files using Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).

       fetchParseURL() takes a URL in the form of a null-terminated string and
       splits it into its components function according	to the Common Internet
       Scheme Syntax detailed in RFC1738.  A regular expression	which produces
       this syntax is:

	   <scheme>:(//(<user>(:<pwd>)?@)?<host>(:<port>)?)?/(<document>)?

       If the URL does not seem	to begin with a	 scheme	 name,	the  following
       syntax is assumed:

	   ((<user>(:<pwd>)?@)?<host>(:<port>)?)?/(<document>)?

       Note  that  some	 components of the URL are not necessarily relevant to
       all URL schemes.	 For instance, the file	scheme only needs the <scheme>
       and <document> components.

       fetchMakeURL() and fetchParseURL() return a pointer to a	url structure,
       which is	defined	as follows in <fetch.h>:

       #define URL_SCHEMELEN 16
       #define URL_USERLEN 256
       #define URL_PWDLEN 256

       struct url {
	   char		scheme[URL_SCHEMELEN+1];
	   char		user[URL_USERLEN+1];
	   char		pwd[URL_PWDLEN+1];
	   char		host[MAXHOSTNAMELEN+1];
	   int		port;
	   char	       *doc;
	   off_t	offset;
	   size_t	length;
	   time_t	ims_time;
       };

       The ims_time field stores the time value	for If-Modified-Since HTTP re-
       quests.

       The pointer returned by fetchMakeURL()  or  fetchParseURL()  should  be
       freed using fetchFreeURL().

       fetchXGetURL(),	fetchGetURL(), and fetchPutURL() constitute the	recom-
       mended interface	to the fetch library.  They examine the	URL passed  to
       them  to	determine the transfer method, and call	the appropriate	lower-
       level functions to perform the actual  transfer.	  fetchXGetURL()  also
       returns	the  remote  document's	 metadata  in  the  url_stat structure
       pointed to by the us argument.

       The flags argument is a string of characters which specify transfer op-
       tions.  The meaning of the individual flags is scheme-dependent,	and is
       detailed	in the appropriate section below.

       fetchStatURL() attempts to obtain the requested document's metadata and
       fill in the structure pointed to	by its second argument.	 The  url_stat
       structure is defined as follows in <fetch.h>:

       struct url_stat {
	   off_t	size;
	   time_t	atime;
	   time_t	mtime;
       };

       If  the	size  could not	be obtained from the server, the size field is
       set to -1.  If the modification time could not  be  obtained  from  the
       server,	the mtime field	is set to the epoch.  If the access time could
       not be obtained from the	server,	the atime field	is set to the  modifi-
       cation time.

       fetchListURL()  attempts	 to list the contents of the directory pointed
       to by the URL provided.	If successful, it returns a malloced array  of
       url_ent	structures.   The  url_ent  structure is defined as follows in
       <fetch.h>:

       struct url_ent {
	   char		name[PATH_MAX];
	   struct url_stat stat;
       };

       The list	is terminated by an entry with an empty	name.

       The pointer returned by fetchListURL() should be	freed using free().

       fetchXGet(), fetchGet(),	fetchPut()  and	 fetchStat()  are  similar  to
       fetchXGetURL(), fetchGetURL(), fetchPutURL() and	fetchStatURL(),	except
       that  they expect a pre-parsed URL in the form of a pointer to a	struct
       url rather than a string.

       All of the fetchXGetXXX(), fetchGetXXX()	 and  fetchPutXXX()  functions
       return  a  pointer  to a	stream which can be used to read or write data
       from or to the requested	document, respectively.	  Note	that  although
       the  implementation  details  of	the individual access methods vary, it
       can generally  be  assumed  that	 a  stream  returned  by  one  of  the
       fetchXGetXXX()  or  fetchGetXXX()  functions  is	 read-only, and	that a
       stream returned by one of the fetchPutXXX() functions is	write-only.

FILE SCHEME
       fetchXGetFile(),	fetchGetFile() and fetchPutFile()  provide  access  to
       documents  which	 are files in a	locally	mounted	file system.  Only the
       <document> component of the URL is used.

       fetchXGetFile() and fetchGetFile() do not accept	any flags.

       fetchPutFile() accepts the `a' (append to file) flag.  If that flag  is
       specified,  the	data  written to the stream returned by	fetchPutFile()
       will be appended	to the previous	contents of the	file, instead  of  re-
       placing them.

FTP SCHEME
       fetchXGetFTP(),	fetchGetFTP() and fetchPutFTP()	implement the FTP pro-
       tocol as	described in RFC959.

       If the `P' (not passive)	flag is	specified, an active (rather than pas-
       sive) connection	will be	attempted.

       The `p' flag is supported for compatibility with	earlier	versions where
       active connections were the default.  It	has precedence	over  the  `P'
       flag, so	if both	are specified, fetchMakeURL will use a passive connec-
       tion.

       If  the	`l' (low) flag is specified, data sockets will be allocated in
       the low (or default) port range instead of the  high  port  range  (see
       ip(4)).

       If  the	`d'  (direct) flag is specified, fetchXGetFTP(), fetchGetFTP()
       and fetchPutFTP() will use a direct connection even if a	 proxy	server
       is defined.

       If no user name or password is given, the fetch library will attempt an
       anonymous  login,  with	user  name  "anonymous"	 and  password "anony-
       mous@<hostname>".

HTTP SCHEME
       The fetchXGetHTTP(), fetchGetHTTP(), fetchPutHTTP() and	fetchReqHTTP()
       functions  implement  the HTTP/1.1 protocol.  With a little luck, there
       is even a chance	that they comply with RFC2616 and RFC2617.

       If the `d' (direct) flag	is specified, fetchXGetHTTP(),	fetchGetHTTP()
       and  fetchPutHTTP() will	use a direct connection	even if	a proxy	server
       is defined.

       If the `i' (if-modified-since) flag  is	specified,  and	 the  ims_time
       field  is  set  in  struct url, then fetchXGetHTTP() and	fetchGetHTTP()
       will send a conditional If-Modified-Since HTTP header to	only fetch the
       content if it is	newer than ims_time.

       The function fetchReqHTTP() can be used to make requests	with an	 arbi-
       trary  HTTP  verb,  including  POST, DELETE, CONNECT, OPTIONS, TRACE or
       PATCH.  This can	be done	by setting the argument	method to the intended
       verb, such as `POST', and body to the content.

       Since there seems to be no good way of implementing the HTTP PUT	method
       in  a  manner  consistent  with	the  rest  of	the   fetch   library,
       fetchPutHTTP() is currently unimplemented.

HTTPS SCHEME
       Based  on HTTP SCHEME.  The CA bundle used for peer verification	can be
       changed by setting the environment variables SSL_CA_CERT_FILE to	 point
       to  a  concatenated bundle of trusted certificates and SSL_CA_CERT_PATH
       to  point  to  a	 directory  containing	hashes	of  trusted  CAs  (see
       verify(1)).

       A certificate revocation	list (CRL) can be used by setting the environ-
       ment variable SSL_CRL_FILE (see crl(1)).

       Peer  verification  can be disabled by setting the environment variable
       SSL_NO_VERIFY_PEER.  Note that this also	disables CRL checking.

       By default the service identity is verified according to	the rules  de-
       tailed  in RFC6125 (also	known as hostname verification).  This feature
       can   be	   disabled    by    setting	the    environment    variable
       SSL_NO_VERIFY_HOSTNAME.

       Client  certificate based authentication	is supported.  The environment
       variable	SSL_CLIENT_CERT_FILE should be set to point to a file contain-
       ing key and client certificate to be used in PEM	format.	 When  a  PEM-
       format key is in	a separate file	from the client	certificate, the envi-
       ronment	variable  SSL_CLIENT_KEY_FILE  can  be set to point to the key
       file.  In case the key uses a password, the user	will  be  prompted  on
       standard	input.

       By  default  libfetch  allows TLSv1 and newer when negotiating the con-
       necting with the	remote peer.  You can change this behavior by  setting
       the  SSL_NO_TLS1, SSL_NO_TLS1_1 and SSL_NO_TLS1_2 environment variables
       to disable TLS 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 respectively.

AUTHENTICATION
       Apart from setting the appropriate environment variables	and specifying
       the user	name and password in the URL or	the struct  url,  the  calling
       program	has the	option of defining an authentication function with the
       following prototype:

       int myAuthMethod(struct url *u)

       The callback function should fill in the	user and  pwd  fields  in  the
       provided	 struct	url and	return 0 on success, or	any other value	to in-
       dicate failure.

       To register the authentication callback,	simply set fetchAuthMethod  to
       point  at  it.	The callback will be used whenever a site requires au-
       thentication and	the appropriate	environment variables are not set.

       This interface is experimental and may be subject to change.

RETURN VALUES
       fetchParseURL() returns a pointer to a struct url containing the	 indi-
       vidual  components  of the URL.	If it is unable	to allocate memory, or
       the URL is syntactically	 incorrect,  fetchParseURL()  returns  a  NULL
       pointer.

       The fetchStat() functions return	0 on success and -1 on failure.

       All other functions return a stream pointer which may be	used to	access
       the requested document, or NULL if an error occurred.

       The following error codes are defined in	<fetch.h>:

       [FETCH_ABORT]	   Operation aborted

       [FETCH_AUTH]	   Authentication failed

       [FETCH_DOWN]	   Service unavailable

       [FETCH_EXISTS]	   File	exists

       [FETCH_FULL]	   File	system full

       [FETCH_INFO]	   Informational response

       [FETCH_MEMORY]	   Insufficient	memory

       [FETCH_MOVED]	   File	has moved

       [FETCH_NETWORK]	   Network error

       [FETCH_OK]	   No error

       [FETCH_PROTO]	   Protocol error

       [FETCH_RESOLV]	   Resolver error

       [FETCH_SERVER]	   Server error

       [FETCH_TEMP]	   Temporary error

       [FETCH_TIMEOUT]	   Operation timed out

       [FETCH_UNAVAIL]	   File	is not available

       [FETCH_UNKNOWN]	   Unknown error

       [FETCH_URL]	   Invalid URL

       The  accompanying error message includes	a protocol-specific error code
       and message, like "File is not available	(404 Not Found)"

ENVIRONMENT
       FETCH_BIND_ADDRESS  Specifies a hostname	or IP address to which sockets
			   used	for outgoing connections will be bound.

       FTP_LOGIN	   Default FTP login if	none was provided in the URL.

       FTP_PASSIVE_MODE	   If set to `no', forces the FTP code to  use	active
			   mode.   If  set  to any other value,	forces passive
			   mode	even if	the application	requested active mode.

       FTP_PASSWORD	   Default FTP password	if the remote server  requests
			   one and none	was provided in	the URL.

       FTP_PROXY	   URL of the proxy to use for FTP requests.  The doc-
			   ument  part	is  ignored.  FTP and HTTP proxies are
			   supported; if no scheme is specified,  FTP  is  as-
			   sumed.  If the proxy	is an FTP proxy, libfetch will
			   send	 `user@host'  as user name to the proxy, where
			   `user' is the real user name,  and  `host'  is  the
			   name	of the FTP server.

			   If  this  variable  is  set	to an empty string, no
			   proxy will be used for FTP requests,	 even  if  the
			   HTTP_PROXY variable is set.

       ftp_proxy	   Same	as FTP_PROXY, for compatibility.

       HTTP_ACCEPT	   Specifies  the  value of the	Accept header for HTTP
			   requests.  If empty,	no Accept header is sent.  The
			   default is "*/*".

       HTTP_AUTH	   Specifies HTTP authorization	parameters as a	colon-
			   separated list of items.  The first and second item
			   are the  authorization  scheme  and	realm  respec-
			   tively;  further  items are scheme-dependent.  Cur-
			   rently,  the	 "basic"  and  "digest"	 authorization
			   methods are supported.

			   Both	 methods require two parameters: the user name
			   and password, in that order.

			   This	variable is only used if the  server  requires
			   authorization  and  no  user	 name  or password was
			   specified in	the URL.

       HTTP_PROXY	   URL of the proxy to use  for	 HTTP  requests.   The
			   document  part  is  ignored.	 Only HTTP proxies are
			   supported for HTTP requests.	 If no port number  is
			   specified, the default is 3128.

			   Note	that this proxy	will also be used for FTP doc-
			   uments, unless the FTP_PROXY	variable is set.

       http_proxy	   Same	as HTTP_PROXY, for compatibility.

       HTTP_PROXY_AUTH	   Specifies  authorization  parameters	 for  the HTTP
			   proxy in the	same format as the HTTP_AUTH variable.

			   This	variable is used if and	only if	 connected  to
			   an  HTTP  proxy,  and is ignored if a user and/or a
			   password were specified in the proxy	URL.

       HTTP_REFERER	   Specifies the referrer URL  to  use	for  HTTP  re-
			   quests.  If set to "auto", the document URL will be
			   used	as referrer URL.

       HTTP_USER_AGENT	   Specifies the User-Agent string to use for HTTP re-
			   quests.   This can be useful	when working with HTTP
			   origin or proxy servers that	differentiate  between
			   user	 agents.   If defined but empty, no User-Agent
			   header is sent.

       NETRC		   Specifies a file to use instead of ~/.netrc to look
			   up login names and passwords	for FTP	and HTTP sites
			   as well as HTTP proxies.  See ftp(1)	for a descrip-
			   tion	of the file format.

       NO_PROXY		   Either a single asterisk, which disables the	use of
			   proxies altogether, or a comma- or whitespace-sepa-
			   rated list of hosts for which proxies should	not be
			   used.

       no_proxy		   Same	as NO_PROXY, for compatibility.

       SOCKS5_PROXY	   Uses	SOCKS version 5	to make	connection.  The  for-
			   mat	must be	the IP or hostname followed by a colon
			   for the port.  IPv6 addresses must enclose the  ad-
			   dress  in  brackets.	  If no	port is	specified, the
			   default is 1080.  This  setting  will  supercede  a
			   connection to an HTTP_PROXY.

       SSL_CA_CERT_FILE	   CA  certificate  bundle  containing trusted CA cer-
			   tificates.  Default value: See HTTPS	SCHEME above.

       SSL_CA_CERT_PATH	   Path	containing trusted CA hashes.

       SSL_CLIENT_CERT_FILE
			   PEM encoded client certificate/key  which  will  be
			   used	in client certificate authentication.

       SSL_CLIENT_KEY_FILE
			   PEM	encoded	client key in case key and client cer-
			   tificate are	stored separately.

       SSL_CRL_FILE	   File	containing certificate revocation list.

       SSL_NO_TLS1	   Do not allow	TLS version 1.0	when  negotiating  the
			   connection.

       SSL_NO_TLS1_1	   Do  not  allow TLS version 1.1 when negotiating the
			   connection.

       SSL_NO_TLS1_2	   Do not allow	TLS version 1.2	when  negotiating  the
			   connection.

       SSL_NO_VERIFY_HOSTNAME
			   If set, do not verify that the hostname matches the
			   subject of the certificate presented	by the server.

       SSL_NO_VERIFY_PEER  If  set, do not verify the peer certificate against
			   trusted CAs.

EXAMPLES
       To access a proxy  server  on  proxy.example.com	 port  8080,  set  the
       HTTP_PROXY environment variable in a manner similar to this:

	     HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080

       If  the	proxy  server  requires	 authentication, there are two options
       available for passing the authentication	data.  The first method	is  by
       using the proxy URL:

	     HTTP_PROXY=http://<user>:<pwd>@proxy.example.com:8080

       The second method is by using the HTTP_PROXY_AUTH environment variable:

	     HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080
	     HTTP_PROXY_AUTH=basic:*:<user>:<pwd>

       To  disable  the	use of a proxy for an HTTP server running on the local
       host, define NO_PROXY as	follows:

	     NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1

       To use a	SOCKS5 proxy, set the SOCKS5_PROXY environment variable	 to  a
       valid  host or IP followed by an	optional colon and the port.  IPv6 ad-
       dresses must be enclosed	in brackets.  The following  are  examples  of
       valid settings:

	     SOCKS5_PROXY=proxy.example.com
	     SOCKS5_PROXY=proxy.example.com:1080
	     SOCKS5_PROXY=192.0.2.0
	     SOCKS5_PROXY=198.51.100.0:1080
	     SOCKS5_PROXY=[2001:db8::1]
	     SOCKS5_PROXY=[2001:db8::2]:1080

       Access HTTPS website without any	certificate verification whatsoever:

	     SSL_NO_VERIFY_PEER=1
	     SSL_NO_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=1

       Access  HTTPS website using client certificate based authentication and
       a private CA:

	     SSL_CLIENT_CERT_FILE=/path/to/client.pem
	     SSL_CA_CERT_FILE=/path/to/myca.pem

SEE ALSO
       fetch(1), ip(4)

       J. Postel and J.	K. Reynolds, File  Transfer  Protocol,	October	 1985,
       RFC959.

       P.  Deutsch,  A.	 Emtage, and A.	Marine., How to	Use Anonymous FTP, May
       1994, RFC1635.

       T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, and	M. McCahill, Uniform Resource Locators
       (URL), December 1994, RFC1738.

       R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L.	 Masinter,  P.	Leach,
       and  T.	Berners-Lee,  Hypertext	Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, January
       1999, RFC2616.

       J. Franks, P. Hallam-Baker, J. Hostetler, S.  Lawrence,	P.  Leach,  A.
       Luotonen,  and L. Stewart, HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest	Access
       Authentication, June 1999, RFC2617.

HISTORY
       The fetch library first appeared	in FreeBSD 3.0.

AUTHORS
       The  fetch  library  was	 mostly	  written   by	 Dag-Erling   Smorgrav
       <des@FreeBSD.org>  with	numerous  suggestions  and  contributions from
       Jordan  K.  Hubbard  <jkh@FreeBSD.org>,	Eugene	Skepner	 <eu@qub.com>,
       Hajimu  Umemoto <ume@FreeBSD.org>, Henry	Whincup	<henry@techiebod.com>,
       Jukka A.	Ukkonen	<jau@iki.fi>,  Jean-Francois  Dockes  <jf@dockes.org>,
       Michael	Gmelin	<freebsd@grem.de>  and	others.	 It replaces the older
       ftpio library written by	Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> and	Jordan
       K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>.

       This manual page	was written by Dag-Erling  Smorgrav  <des@FreeBSD.org>
       and Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>.

BUGS
       Some  parts  of	the library are	not yet	implemented.  The most notable
       examples	of this	are  fetchPutHTTP(),  fetchListHTTP(),	fetchListFTP()
       and FTP proxy support.

       There  is  no  way to select a proxy at run-time	other than setting the
       HTTP_PROXY or FTP_PROXY environment variables as	appropriate.

       libfetch	does not understand or obey 305	(Use Proxy) replies.

       Error numbers are unique	only within a certain context; the error codes
       used for	FTP and	HTTP overlap, as do those used for resolver and	system
       errors.	For instance, error code 202 means "Command  not  implemented,
       superfluous  at	this site" in an FTP context and "Accepted" in an HTTP
       context.

       fetchStatFTP() does not check that the result of	an MDTM	command	 is  a
       valid date.

       In  case	 password protected keys are used for client certificate based
       authentication the user is prompted for the password on each and	 every
       fetch operation.

       The man page is incomplete, poorly written and produces badly formatted
       text.

       The error reporting mechanism is	unsatisfactory.

       Some parts of the code are not fully reentrant.

FreeBSD	13.2			October	7, 2023			      FETCH(3)

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