Merge pull request #6695

ddf98d1 Make RPC tests cope with server-side timeout between requests (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2190ea6 rpc: Split option -rpctimeout into -rpcservertimeout and -rpcclienttimeout (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
8b2d6ed http: Disable libevent debug logging, if not explicitly enabled (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
5ce43da init: Ignore SIGPIPE (Wladimir J. van der Laan)

Author: laanwj

contrib/debian/examples/bitcoin.conf

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 
 # How many seconds bitcoin will wait for a complete RPC HTTP request.
 # after the HTTP connection is established. 
-#rpctimeout=30
+#rpcclienttimeout=30
 
 # By default, only RPC connections from localhost are allowed.
 # Specify as many rpcallowip= settings as you like to allow connections from other hosts,

qa/rpc-tests/test_framework/authproxy.py

@@ -106,6 +106,26 @@ def __getattr__(self, name):
             name = "%s.%s" % (self.__service_name, name)
         return AuthServiceProxy(self.__service_url, name, connection=self.__conn)
 
+    def _request(self, method, path, postdata):
+        '''
+        Do a HTTP request, with retry if we get disconnected (e.g. due to a timeout).
+        This is a workaround for https://bugs.python.org/issue3566 which is fixed in Python 3.5.
+        '''
+        headers = {'Host': self.__url.hostname,
+                   'User-Agent': USER_AGENT,
+                   'Authorization': self.__auth_header,
+                   'Content-type': 'application/json'}
+        try:
+            self.__conn.request(method, path, postdata, headers)
+            return self._get_response()
+        except httplib.BadStatusLine as e:
+            if e.line == "''": # if connection was closed, try again
+                self.__conn.close()
+                self.__conn.request(method, path, postdata, headers)
+                return self._get_response()
+            else:
+                raise
+
     def __call__(self, *args):
         AuthServiceProxy.__id_count += 1
 
@@ -115,13 +135,7 @@ def __call__(self, *args):
                                'method': self.__service_name,
                                'params': args,
                                'id': AuthServiceProxy.__id_count}, default=EncodeDecimal)
-        self.__conn.request('POST', self.__url.path, postdata,
-                            {'Host': self.__url.hostname,
-                             'User-Agent': USER_AGENT,
-                             'Authorization': self.__auth_header,
-                             'Content-type': 'application/json'})
-
-        response = self._get_response()
+        response = self._request('POST', self.__url.path, postdata)
         if response['error'] is not None:
             raise JSONRPCException(response['error'])
         elif 'result' not in response:
@@ -133,13 +147,7 @@ def __call__(self, *args):
     def _batch(self, rpc_call_list):
         postdata = json.dumps(list(rpc_call_list), default=EncodeDecimal)
         log.debug("--> "+postdata)
-        self.__conn.request('POST', self.__url.path, postdata,
-                            {'Host': self.__url.hostname,
-                             'User-Agent': USER_AGENT,
-                             'Authorization': self.__auth_header,
-                             'Content-type': 'application/json'})
-
-        return self._get_response()
+        return self._request('POST', self.__url.path, postdata)
 
     def _get_response(self):
         http_response = self.__conn.getresponse()

src/bitcoin-cli.cpp

@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 
 using namespace std;
 
+static const int DEFAULT_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=900;
+
 std::string HelpMessageCli()
 {
     string strUsage;
@@ -37,6 +39,7 @@ std::string HelpMessageCli()
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcwait", _("Wait for RPC server to start"));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcuser=<user>", _("Username for JSON-RPC connections"));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcpassword=<pw>", _("Password for JSON-RPC connections"));
+    strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcclienttimeout=<n>", strprintf(_("Timeout during HTTP requests (default: %d)"), DEFAULT_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT));
 
     return strUsage;
 }
@@ -150,7 +153,7 @@ UniValue CallRPC(const string& strMethod, const UniValue& params)
     struct evhttp_connection *evcon = evhttp_connection_base_new(base, NULL, host.c_str(), port); // TODO RAII
     if (evcon == NULL)
         throw runtime_error("create connection failed");
-    evhttp_connection_set_timeout(evcon, GetArg("-rpctimeout", 30));
+    evhttp_connection_set_timeout(evcon, GetArg("-rpcclienttimeout", DEFAULT_HTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT));
 
     HTTPReply response;
     struct evhttp_request *req = evhttp_request_new(http_request_done, (void*)&response); // TODO RAII

src/httpserver.cpp

@@ -320,6 +320,15 @@ static void HTTPWorkQueueRun(WorkQueue<HTTPClosure>* queue)
     queue->Run();
 }
 
+/** libevent event log callback */
+static void libevent_log_cb(int severity, const char *msg)
+{
+    if (severity >= EVENT_LOG_WARN) // Log warn messages and higher without debug category
+        LogPrintf("libevent: %s\n", msg);
+    else
+        LogPrint("libevent", "libevent: %s\n", msg);
+}
+
 bool InitHTTPServer()
 {
     struct evhttp* http = 0;
@@ -335,6 +344,16 @@ bool InitHTTPServer()
         return false;
     }
 
+    // Redirect libevent's logging to our own log
+    event_set_log_callback(&libevent_log_cb);
+#if LIBEVENT_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x02010100
+    // If -debug=libevent, set full libevent debugging.
+    // Otherwise, disable all libevent debugging.
+    if (LogAcceptCategory("libevent"))
+        event_enable_debug_logging(EVENT_DBG_ALL);
+    else
+        event_enable_debug_logging(EVENT_DBG_NONE);
+#endif
 #ifdef WIN32
     evthread_use_windows_threads();
 #else
@@ -355,7 +374,7 @@ bool InitHTTPServer()
         return false;
     }
 
-    evhttp_set_timeout(http, GetArg("-rpctimeout", DEFAULT_HTTP_TIMEOUT));
+    evhttp_set_timeout(http, GetArg("-rpcservertimeout", DEFAULT_HTTP_SERVER_TIMEOUT));
     evhttp_set_max_body_size(http, MAX_SIZE);
     evhttp_set_gencb(http, http_request_cb, NULL);
 

src/httpserver.h

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 static const int DEFAULT_HTTP_THREADS=4;
 static const int DEFAULT_HTTP_WORKQUEUE=16;
-static const int DEFAULT_HTTP_TIMEOUT=30;
+static const int DEFAULT_HTTP_SERVER_TIMEOUT=30;
 
 struct evhttp_request;
 struct event_base;

src/init.cpp

@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode mode)
         strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-limitdescendantcount=<n>", strprintf("Do not accept transactions if any ancestor would have <n> or more in-mempool descendants (default: %u)", DEFAULT_DESCENDANT_LIMIT));
         strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-limitdescendantsize=<n>", strprintf("Do not accept transactions if any ancestor would have more than <n> kilobytes of in-mempool descendants (default: %u).", DEFAULT_DESCENDANT_SIZE_LIMIT));
     }
-    string debugCategories = "addrman, alert, bench, coindb, db, lock, rand, rpc, selectcoins, mempool, mempoolrej, net, proxy, prune, http"; // Don't translate these and qt below
+    string debugCategories = "addrman, alert, bench, coindb, db, lock, rand, rpc, selectcoins, mempool, mempoolrej, net, proxy, prune, http, libevent"; // Don't translate these and qt below
     if (mode == HMM_BITCOIN_QT)
         debugCategories += ", qt";
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-debug=<category>", strprintf(_("Output debugging information (default: %u, supplying <category> is optional)"), 0) + ". " +
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode mode)
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcthreads=<n>", strprintf(_("Set the number of threads to service RPC calls (default: %d)"), DEFAULT_HTTP_THREADS));
     if (showDebug) {
         strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcworkqueue=<n>", strprintf("Set the depth of the work queue to service RPC calls (default: %d)", DEFAULT_HTTP_WORKQUEUE));
-        strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpctimeout=<n>", strprintf("Timeout during HTTP requests (default: %d)", DEFAULT_HTTP_TIMEOUT));
+        strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcservertimeout=<n>", strprintf("Timeout during HTTP requests (default: %d)", DEFAULT_HTTP_SERVER_TIMEOUT));
     }
 
     if (mode == HMM_BITCOIN_QT)
@@ -716,10 +716,8 @@ bool AppInit2(boost::thread_group& threadGroup, CScheduler& scheduler)
     sa_hup.sa_flags = 0;
     sigaction(SIGHUP, &sa_hup, NULL);
 
-#if defined (__SVR4) && defined (__sun)
-    // ignore SIGPIPE on Solaris
+    // Ignore SIGPIPE, otherwise it will bring the daemon down if the client closes unexpectedly
     signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
-#endif
 #endif
 
     // ********************************************************* Step 2: parameter interactions