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/*
** A small, simple HTTP server.
**
** Features:
**
**     * Launched from inetd
**     * One process per request
**     * Deliver static content or run CGI
**     * Virtual sites based on the "Host:" property of the HTTP header


**     * Very small code base (1 file) to facilitate security auditing
**     * Simple setup - no configuration files to mess with.
** 
** This file implements a small and simple but secure and effective web
** server.  There are no frills.  Anything that could be reasonably
** omitted has been.
**
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**
**            httpd -logfile logfile -root /home/www -user nobody
**
**        It will automatically chroot to /home/www and become user nobody.
**        The logfile name should be relative to the chroot jail.
**
**    (2) Directories of the form "*.website" (ex: www_hwaci_com.website)
**        contain content.  The directory is chosen based on HOST.  If no
**        HOST or the host directory is not found, "default.website" is used.




**
**    (3) Any file or directory whose name begins with "." or "-" is ignored.
**
**    (4) Characters other than a-zA-Z0-9_.,*~/ in the filename are translated
**        into _.  This is a defense against cross-site scripting attacks and
**        other mischief.
**
**    (5) Executable files are run as CGI.  All other files are delivered
**        as is.
**
**    (6) For SSL support use stunnel and add the -https 1 option on the
**        httpd command-line.
**
**    (7) If a file named "-auth" exists in the same directory as file to
**        be run as CGI or to be delivered, then it contains information
**        for HTTP Basic authorization.  See file format details below.



















































































**
**
** Basic Authorization:
**
** If the file "-auth" exists in the same directory as the content file
** (for both static content and CGI) then it contains the information used
** for basic authorization.  The file format is as follows:
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      Malfunction(__LINE__, "no such user [%s]", zPermUser);
    }
  }
  if( getuid()==0 ){
    Malfunction(__LINE__, "cannot run as root");
  }

  /* Get the IP address from when the request originates
  */
  {
    address remoteAddr;
    unsigned int size = sizeof(remoteAddr);
    char zHost[NI_MAXHOST];
    if( getpeername(0, &remoteAddr.sa, &size)>=0 ){
      getnameinfo(&remoteAddr.sa, size, zHost, sizeof(zHost), 0, 0,

/*
** A small, simple HTTP server.
**
** Features:
**
**     * Launched from inetd, or as a stand-alone server
**     * One process per request
**     * Deliver static content or run CGI
**     * Virtual sites based on the "Host:" property of the HTTP header
**     * Runs in a chroot jail
**     * Unified log file in a CSV format
**     * Very small code base (1 file) to facilitate security auditing
**     * Simple setup - no configuration files to mess with.
** 
** This file implements a small and simple but secure and effective web
** server.  There are no frills.  Anything that could be reasonably
** omitted has been.
**
................................................................................
**
**            httpd -logfile logfile -root /home/www -user nobody
**
**        It will automatically chroot to /home/www and become user nobody.
**        The logfile name should be relative to the chroot jail.
**
**    (2) Directories of the form "*.website" (ex: www_hwaci_com.website)
**        contain content.  The directory is chosen based on the HTTP_HOST
**        request header.  If there is no HTTP_HOST header or if the
**        corresponding host directory does not exist, then the
**        "default.website" is used.  If the HTTP_HOST header contains any
**        charaters other than [a-zA-Z0-9_.,*~/] then a 403 error is
**        generated.
**
**    (3) Any file or directory whose name begins with "." or "-" is ignored.
**
**    (4) Characters other than [0-9a-zA-Z,-./:_~] and any %HH characters
**        escapes in the filename are all translated into "_".  This is
**        a defense against cross-site scripting attacks and other mischief.
**
**    (5) Executable files are run as CGI.  All other files are delivered
**        as is.
**
**    (6) For SSL support use stunnel and add the -https 1 option on the
**        httpd command-line.
**
**    (7) If a file named "-auth" exists in the same directory as the file to
**        be run as CGI or to be delivered, then it contains information
**        for HTTP Basic authorization.  See file format details below.
**
**    (8) To run as a stand-alone server, simply add the "-port N" command-line
**        option to define which TCP port to listen on.
**
** Command-line Options:
**
**  --root DIR       Defines the directory that contains the various
**                   $HOST.website subdirectories, each containing web content 
**                   for a single virtual host.  If launched as root and if
**                   "--user USER" also appears on the command-line and if
**                   "--jail 0" is omitted, then the process runs in a chroot
**                   jail rooted at this directory and under the userid USER.
**                   This option is required for xinetd launch but defaults
**                   to "." for a stand-alone web server.
**
**  --user USER      Define the user under which the process should run if
**                   originally launched as root.  This process will refuse to
**                   run as root (for security).  If this option is omitted and
**                   the process is launched as root, it will abort without
**                   processing any HTTP requests.
**
**  --logfile FILE   Append a single-line, CSV-format, log file entry to FILE
**                   for each HTTP request.  FILE should be a full pathname.
**                   The FILE name is interpreted inside the chroot jail.
**
**  --https          Indicates that input is coming over SSL and is being
**                   decoded upstream, perhaps by stunnel.  (This program
**                   only understands plaintext.)
**
**  --family ipv4    Only accept input from IPV4 or IPV6, respectively.
**  --family ipv6    These options are only meaningful if althttpd is run
**                   as a stand-alone server.
**
**  --jail BOOLEAN   Indicates whether or not to form a chroot jail if 
**                   initially run as root.  The default is true, so the only
**                   useful variant of this option is "--jail 0" which prevents
**                   the formation of the chroot jail.
**
**  --debug          Disables input timeouts.  This is useful for debugging
**                   when inputs is being typed in manually.
**
** Command-line options can take either one or two initial "-" characters.
** So "--debug" and "-debug" mean the same thing, for example.
**
**
** Security Features:
**
** (1)  This program automatically puts itself inside a chroot jail if
**      it can and if not specifically prohibited by the "--jail 0"
**      command-line option.  The root of the jail is the directory that
**      contains the various $HOST.website content subdirectories.
**
** (2)  No input is read while this process has root privileges.  Root
**      privileges are dropped prior to reading any input (but after entering
**      the chroot jail, of course).  If root privileges cannot be dropped
**      (for example because the --user command-line option was omitted or
**      because the user specified by the --user option does not exist), 
**      then the process aborts with an error prior to reading any input.
**
** (3)  The length of an HTTP request is limited to MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH bytes
**      (default: 20 million).  Any HTTP request longer than this fails
**      with an error.
**
** (4)  There are hard-coded time-outs on each HTTP request.  If this process
**      waits longer than the timeout for the complete request, or for CGI
**      to finish running, then this process aborts.  (The timeout feature
**      can be disabled using the --debug command-line option.)
**
** (5)  If the HTTP_HOST request header contains characters other than
**      [0-9a-zA-Z,-./:_~] then the entire request is rejected.
**
** (6)  Any characters in the URI pathname other than [0-9a-zA-Z,-./:_~]
**      are converted into "_".  This applies to the pathname only, not
**      to the query parameters or fragment.
**
** (7)  If the first character of any URI pathname component is "." or "-"
**      then a 404 Not Found reply is generated.  This prevents attacks
**      such as including ".." or "." directory elements in the pathname
**      and allows placing files and directories in the content subdirectory
**      that are invisible to all HTTP requests, by making the first 
**      character of the file or subdirectory name "-" or ".".
**
** (8)  The request URI must begin with "/" or else a 404 error is generated.
**
**
** Basic Authorization:
**
** If the file "-auth" exists in the same directory as the content file
** (for both static content and CGI) then it contains the information used
** for basic authorization.  The file format is as follows:
................................................................................
      Malfunction(__LINE__, "no such user [%s]", zPermUser);
    }
  }
  if( getuid()==0 ){
    Malfunction(__LINE__, "cannot run as root");
  }

  /* Get the IP address from whence the request originates
  */
  {
    address remoteAddr;
    unsigned int size = sizeof(remoteAddr);
    char zHost[NI_MAXHOST];
    if( getpeername(0, &remoteAddr.sa, &size)>=0 ){
      getnameinfo(&remoteAddr.sa, size, zHost, sizeof(zHost), 0, 0,