[PATCH 1/4] uclient-fetch: --header option to pass additional raw HTTP headers

Andre Heider a.heider at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 22:33:44 PDT 2022


Hi Sergey,

any update on this series? I'd be interested in the --header option.

Thanks,
Andre

On 10/05/2022 11:11, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
> Hi Sergey,
> 
> a minor nitpick inline below.
> 
> On 5/9/22 11:59 PM, Sergey Ponomarev wrote:
>> You can add a custom HTTP header(s) to request:
>>
>>      wget --header='Authorization: Bearer TOKEN' \
>>          --header='If-Modified-Since: Wed, 9 May 2021 12:16:00 GMT' \
>>          https://example.com/
>>
>> Some headers like Authorization or User-Agent may be already set by --password or --user-agent.
>> We may override them but it's a protection from user itself.
>> To keep code concise the logic omitted.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergey Ponomarev <stokito at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> [...]
>> +			case L_HEADER:
>> +				if (!raw_headers) {
>> +					/* Max possible count of headers is the count of args (argc) - 2
>> +					 Since the first arg is program and last is a URL.
>> +					 But user may forget the URL and raw_headers is null terminated so allocate argc */
>> +					raw_headers = calloc(argc, sizeof(char *));
> 
> Please handle a possible calloc() error here. Maybe consider introducing an
> "xalloc()" or similar helper which wraps calloc() and invokes abort() on NULL
> return.
> 
>> +				}
>> +				raw_headers[raw_headers_count] = optarg;
>> +				raw_headers_count++;
>> +				break;
>>   			case L_POST_DATA:
>>   				post_data = optarg;
>>   				break;
>> [...]
> 
> 
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