From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:24:13 +0000 (-0700) Subject: webapi.txt: some editing, and remove the localfile feature and the manifest feature X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/vdrive/%22news.html/index.php?a=commitdiff_plain;h=89d2e1ac579998aaa0e2ce921d3822885de1a806;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git webapi.txt: some editing, and remove the localfile feature and the manifest feature My motivation to remove these features is as per: http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2007-August/000067.html However, I haven't heard back from Brian yet, so I'm actually going to put them back in the next patch so that I can compare the two versions of webapi.txt side by side. --- diff --git a/docs/webapi.txt b/docs/webapi.txt index eb70cc13..33ed0516 100644 --- a/docs/webapi.txt +++ b/docs/webapi.txt @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ == connecting to the tahoe node == -Writing "8011" into NODEDIR/webport causes the node to run a webserver on -port 8011. Writing "tcp:8011:interface=127.0.0.1" into NODEDIR/webport does +Writing "8011" into $NODEDIR/webport causes the node to run a webserver on +port 8011. Writing "tcp:8011:interface=127.0.0.1" into $NODEDIR/webport does the same but binds to the loopback interface, ensuring that only the programs on the local host can connect. Using "ssl:8011:privateKey=mykey.pem:certKey=cert.pem" would run an SSL server. See twisted.application.strports for more details. -If NODEDIR/webpassword exists, it will be used (somehow) to require HTTP +If $NODEDIR/webpassword exists, it will be used (somehow) to require HTTP Digest Authentication for all webserver connections. XXX specify how @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ In addition, each directory has a corresponding URL. The Pictures URL is: http://localhost:8011/vdrive/private/Pictures -Now, what can we do with these URLs? By varying the HTTP "method" +Now, what can we do with these URLs? By varying the HTTP method (GET/PUT/POST/DELETE) and by appending a type-indicating query argument, we control how what we want to do with the data and how it should be presented. @@ -108,14 +108,6 @@ nothing exists. Before writing code that uses these results, please see the important note below about TOCTTOU bugs. - DELETE $URL - - This deletes the given file or directory from the vdrive. If it is a - directory then this deletes all of its chilren. Note that this *does not* - delete any parent directories, so a sequence of 'PUT NEWURL' and 'DELETE - NEWURL' does not necessarily return the vdrive to its original state (it - may leave some intermediate directory nodes). - GET $URL?t=uri This returns the URI of the given file or directory in the HTTP response @@ -130,44 +122,25 @@ nothing exists. (Currently all files are immutable so everyone has read-only access to all files.) - GET $URL?t=download&localfile=$LOCALPATH - - This instructs the node to download the given file or directory and write - it into the local filesystem at $LOCALPATH. This request will only be - accepted from an HTTP client connection originating at 127.0.0.1 . This - request is most useful when the client node and the HTTP client are - operated by the same user. $LOCALPATH should be an absolute pathname. - - PUT $NEWURL?t=upload&localfile=$LOCALPATH - - This uploads a file or directory from the node's local filesystem to the - vdrive. As with "GET $URL?t=download&localfile=$LOCALPATH", this request - will only be accepted from an HTTP connection originating from 127.0.0.1. - - If $LOCALPATH points to a directory on the node's local filesystem, then - the node performs a recursive upload of the directory into the vdrive at - the given location. $NEWURL will be created if necessary. When the - operation is complete, the directory referenced by $NEWURL will contain all - of the files and directories that were present in $LOCALPATH, so this is - equivalent to the unix commands: + PUT $URL?t=uri - mkdir -p $NEWURL; cp -r $LOCALPATH/* $NEWURL/ + This attaches a child (either a file or a directory) to the vdrive at the + given location. The URI of the child is provided in the body of the HTTP + request. This can be used to attach a shared directory to the + vdrive. Intermediate directories are created on-demand just like with the + regular PUT command. - Note that the "curl" utility can be used to provoke this sort of recursive - upload, since the -T option will make it use an HTTP 'PUT': + DELETE $URL - curl -T /dev/null 'http://localhost:8011/vdrive/global/newdir?t=upload&localdir=/home/user/directory-to-upload' + This deletes the given file or directory from the vdrive. If it is a + directory then this deletes all of its chilren. Note that this *does not* + delete any parent directories, so a sequence of 'PUT $NEWURL' and 'DELETE + $NEWURL' does not necessarily return the vdrive to its original state (it + may leave some intermediate directory nodes). === files by name === - GET $URL?t=file - - If the given place in the vdrive contains a file, then this simply - retrieves the contents of the file, exactly as described in the "GET $URL" - paragraph of the "Files and Directories" section. If the given place does - not contain a file then this returns an error. XYZ specify the error - PUT $NEWURL This uploads a file to the given place in the vdrive. It will create @@ -183,10 +156,6 @@ nothing exists. === directories by name === - GET $URL?t=manifest - - Return an HTML-formatted manifest of the given directory, for debugging. - PUT $NEWURL?t=mkdir Create a new empty directory at the given path. The HTTP response contains @@ -198,26 +167,26 @@ nothing exists. This provides a useful facility to browser-based user interfaces. It returns a page containing a form targetting the "POST $URL t=rename" functionality described below, with the provided $CHILDNAME present in the - 'from_name' field of that form. i.e. this presents a form offering to + 'from_name' field of that form. I.e. this presents a form offering to rename $CHILDNAME, requesting the new name, and submitting POST rename. == URIs == -A separate top-level resource namespace ("uri" instead of "vdrive") is used +A separate top-level resource namespace ("uri/" instead of "vdrive/") is used to get access to files and dirnodes that are indexed directly by URI, rather than by going through the vdrive. The resource thus referenced is used the -same way as if it were accessed through the vdrive, (including accessing a +same way as if it were accessed through the vdrive (including accessing a directory's children with "$URI/childname"). For example, this identifies a file or directory: http://localhost:8011/uri/$URI -And this identifies a file or directory in a subdirectory of the identified -directory: +And this identifies a file or directory "foo" in a subdirectory "somedir" of +the identified directory: -http://localhost:8011/uri/$URI/subdir/foo +http://localhost:8011/uri/$URI/somedir/foo In the following examples, "$URI_URL" is a shorthand for a URL like the one above, with "uri/" as the top level, followed by a URI. @@ -230,24 +199,17 @@ allmydata.org uri format to relieve the user of this requirement. GET $URI_URL - This behaves the same way a "GET $URL", described in the "files and - directories" section above, but which file or directory you get does not - depend on the contents of parent directories as it does with the name-based - URLs, since a URI uniquely identifies an object regardless of its location. + This behaves the same way that a "GET $URL" does, described in the "files + and directories" section above. The difference is that which file or + directory you get does not depend on the contents of parent directories as + it does with the name-based URLs, since a URI uniquely identifies an object + regardless of its location. - If the URI identifies a file, then this retrieves the contents of the - file. Since files accessed this way do not have a filename (from which a + Since files accessed this way do not have a filename (from which a MIME-type can be derived), one can be specified using a 'filename=' query argument. This filename is also the one used if the 'save=true' argument is set. - PUT $URL?t=uri - - This attaches a child (either a file or a directory) to the vdrive at the - given location. The URI is provided in the body of the HTTP request. This - can be used to attach a shared directory to the vdrive. Intermediate - directories are created on-demand just like with the regular PUT command. - GET http://localhost:8011/uri?uri=$URI This causes a redirect to /uri/$URI, and retains any additional query