While implementing netty-handler-proxy, I realized various issues in our
current socksx package. Here's the list of the modifications and their
background:
- Split message types into interfaces and default implementations
- so that a user can implement an alternative message implementations
- Use classes instead of enums when a user might want to define a new
constant
- so that a user can extend SOCKS5 protocol, such as:
- defining a new error code
- defining a new address type
- Rename the message classes
- to avoid abbreviated class names. e.g:
- Cmd -> Command
- Init -> Initial
- so that the class names align better with the protocol
specifications. e.g:
- AuthRequest -> PasswordAuthRequest
- AuthScheme -> AuthMethod
- Rename the property names of the messages
- so that the property names align better when the field names in the
protocol specifications
- Improve the decoder implementations
- Give a user more control over when a decoder has to be removed
- Use DecoderResult and DecoderResultProvider to handle decode failure
gracefully. i.e. no more Unknown* message classes
- Add SocksPortUnifinicationServerHandler since it's useful to the users
who write a SOCKS server
- Cleaned up and moved from the socksproxy example
Related issue: #1133
Motivation:
There is no support for client socket connections via a proxy server in
Netty.
Modifications:
- Add a new module 'handler-proxy'
- Add ProxyHandler and its subclasses to support SOCKS 4a/5 and HTTP(S)
proxy connections
- Add a full parameterized test for most scenarios
- Clean up pom.xml
Result:
A user can make an outgoing connection via proxy servers with only
trivial effort.
Motivation:
Socks5CmdRequestDecoder uses ByteBuf.array() naively assuming that the
array's base offset is always 0, which is not the case.
Modification:
- Allocate a new byte array and copy the content there instead
Result:
Another bug fixed
Motivation:
The unit tests in codec-socks contained redundant casts and empty test classes.
Modifications:
- Remove redundant casts
- Delete empty test classes
Result:
Cleanup
- SocksV[45] -> Socks[45]
- Make encodeAsByteBuf package private with some hassle
- Split SocksMessageEncoder into Socks4MessageEncoder and
Socks5MessageEncoder, and remove the original
- Remove lazy singleton instantiation; we don't need it.
- Remove the deprecated methods
- Fix Javadoc errors
Motivation:
SOCKS 4 and 5 are very different protocols although they share the same
name. It is not possible to incorporate the two protocol versions into
a single package.
Modifications:
- Add a new package called 'socksx' to supercede 'socks' package.
- Add SOCKS 4/4a support to the 'socksx' package
Result:
codec-socks now supports all SOCKS versions
Motivation:
The examples have not been updated since long time ago, showing various
issues fixed in this commit.
Modifications:
- Overall simplification to reduce LoC
- Use system properties to get options instead of parsing args.
- Minimize option validation
- Just use System.out/err instead of Logger
- Do not pass config as parameters - just access it directly
- Move the main logic to main(String[]) instead of creating a new
instance meaninglessly
- Update netty-build-21 to make checkstyle not complain
- Remove 'throws Exception' clause if possible
- Line wrap at 120 (previously at 80)
- Add an option to enable SSL for most examples
- Use ChannelFuture.sync() instead of await()
- Use System.out for the actual result. Use System.err otherwise.
- Delete examples that are not very useful:
- applet
- websocket/html5
- websocketx/sslserver
- localecho/multithreaded
- Add run-example.sh which simplifies launching an example from command
line
- Rewrite FileServer example
Result:
Shorter and simpler examples. A user can focus more on what it actually
does than miscellaneous stuff. A user can launch an example very
easily.
Motivation:
Ports range check is not correct
Modification:
Allow port between 0 and 65535. 0 is wildcard / unknown port here
Result:
Correct validation
Motivation:
In the Internet Protocol, the valid port number range is from 1 to 65535
(inclusive on the both side.) However, SocksCmdRequest and SocksCmdResponse
refuses to construct itself when the port number 65535 is specified. Beside
this it excepts 0 as port number which should not allowed.
Modification:
* Not raise an exception when the specified port number is 65535.
* Raise an exception when the specified port number is 0
Result:
Fixes#2428
Motivation:
In the Internet Protocol, the valid port number range is from 1 to 65535
(inclusive on the both side.) However, SocksCmdRequest refuses to
construct itself when the port number 65535 is specified.
Modification:
Do not raise an exception when the specified port number is 65535.
Result:
Fixes#2428
- Fixes#2003 properly
- Instead of using 'bundle' packaging, use 'jar' packaging. This is
more robust because some strict build tools fail to retrieve the
artifacts from a Maven repository unless their packaging is not 'jar'.
- All artifacts now contain META-INF/io.netty.version.properties, which
provides the detailed information about the build and repository.
- Removed OSGi testsuite temporarily because it gives false errors
during split package test and examination.
- Add io.netty.util.Version for easy retrieval of version information