1 The test suite's file format is very simple and extensible, closely
2 resembling XML. All data for a single test case resides in a single
3 ASCII file. Labels mark the beginning and the end of all sections, and each
4 label must be written in its own line. Comments are either XML-style
5 (enclosed with <!-- and -->) or C-style (beginning with #) and must appear
6 on their own lines and not alongside actual test data. Most test data files
7 are syntactically valid XML, although a few files are not (lack of
8 support for character entities and the preservation of CR/LF characters at
9 the end of lines are the biggest differences).
11 The file begins with a 'testcase' tag, which encompasses the remainder of
16 Each file is split up in three main sections: reply, client and verify. The
17 reply section is used for the server to know what to send as a reply for the
18 requests curl sends, the client section defines how the client should behave
19 while the verify section defines how to verify that the data stored after a
20 command has been run ended up correctly.
22 Each main section has a number of available subsections that can be
23 specified, that will be checked/used if specified. This document includes all
24 the subsections currently supported.
26 Main sections are 'info', 'reply', 'client' and 'verify'.
30 A newline-separated list of keywords describing what this test case uses and
31 tests. Try to use an already used keyword. These keywords will be used for
32 statistical/informational purposes and for choosing or skipping classes
33 of tests. "Keywords" must begin with an alphabetic character, "-", "["
34 or "{" and may actually consist of multiple words separated by spaces
35 which are treated together as a single identifier.
40 <data [nocheck="yes"] [sendzero="yes"] [base64="yes"]>
41 data to be sent to the client on its request and later verified that it arrived
42 safely. Set nocheck="yes" to prevent the test script from verifying the arrival
45 If the data contains 'swsclose' anywhere within the start and end tag, and
46 this is a HTTP test, then the connection will be closed by the server after
47 this response is sent. If not, the connection will be kept persistent.
49 If the data contains 'swsbounce' anywhere within the start and end tag, the
50 HTTP server will detect if this is a second request using the same test and
51 part number and will then increase the part number with one. This is useful
52 for auth tests and similar.
54 'sendzero' set to yes means that the (FTP) server will "send" the data even if
55 the size is zero bytes. Used to verify curl's behaviour on zero bytes
58 'base64' set to yes means that the data provided in the test-file is a chunk
59 of data encoded with base64. It is the only way a test case can contain binary
60 data. (This attribute can in fact be used on any section, but it doesn't make
61 much sense for other sections than "data").
63 For FTP file listings, the <data> section will be used *only* if you make sure
64 that there has been a CWD done first to a directory named 'test-[num]' where
65 [num] is the test case number. Otherwise the ftp server can't know from which
66 test file to load the list content.
70 Send back this contents instead of the <data> one. The num is set by:
71 A) The test number in the request line is >10000 and this is the remainder
72 of [test case number]%10000.
73 B) The request was HTTP and included digest details, which adds 1000 to NUM
74 C) If a HTTP request is NTLM type-1, it adds 1001 to num
75 D) If a HTTP request is NTLM type-3, it adds 1002 to num
76 E) If a HTTP request is Basic and num is already >=1000, it adds 1 to num
78 Dynamically changing num in this way allows the test harness to be used to
79 test authentication negotiation where several different requests must be sent
80 to complete a transfer. The response to each request is found in its own data
81 section. Validating the entire negotiation sequence can be done by
82 specifying a datacheck section.
85 The connect section is used instead of the 'data' for all CONNECT
86 requests. The remainder of the rules for the data section then apply but with
89 <datacheck [nonewline="yes"]>
90 if the data is sent but this is what should be checked afterwards. If
91 'nonewline' is set, we will cut off the trailing newline of this given data
92 before comparing with the one actually received by the client
95 number to return on a ftp SIZE command (set to -1 to make this command fail)
98 what to send back if the client sends a (FTP) MDTM command, set to -1 to
99 have it return that the file doesn't exist
102 special purpose server-command to control its behavior *after* the
104 For HTTP/HTTPS, these are supported:
107 - Pause for the given time
110 Special-commands for the server.
111 For FTP/SMTP/POP/IMAP, these are supported:
113 REPLY [command] [return value] [response string]
114 - Changes how the server responds to the [command]. [response string] is
115 evaluated as a perl string, so it can contain embedded \r\n, for example.
116 There's a special [command] named "welcome" (without quotes) which is the
117 string sent immediately on connect as a welcome.
118 COUNT [command] [num]
119 - Do the REPLY change for [command] only [num] times and then go back to the
121 DELAY [command] [secs]
122 - Delay responding to this command for the given time
124 - Enable the "weirdo" RETR case when multiple response lines appear at once
125 when a file is transfered
127 - Make sure the RETR response doesn't contain the size of the file
129 - Don't actually save what is received
131 - Send FTP responses with 0.01 sec delay between each byte
133 - makes PASV send back an illegal IP in its 227 response
135 - Enables support for and specifies a list of space separated capabilities to
136 return to the client for the IMAP CAPABILITY, POP3 CAPA and SMTP EHLO
139 - Enables support for SASL authentication and specifies a list of space
140 separated mechanisms for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP
143 auth_required if this is set and a POST/PUT is made without auth, the
144 server will NOT wait for the full request body to get sent
145 idle do nothing after receiving the request, just "sit idle"
146 stream continuously send data to the client, never-ending
147 writedelay: [secs] delay this amount between reply packets
148 pipe: [num] tell the server to expect this many HTTP requests before
149 sending back anything, to allow pipelining tests
150 skip: [num] instructs the server to ignore reading this many bytes from a PUT
153 rtp: part [num] channel [num] size [num]
154 stream a fake RTP packet for the given part on a chosen channel
155 with the given payload size
157 connection-monitor When used, this will log [DISCONNECT] to the server.input
158 log when the connection is disconnected.
162 writedelay: [secs] delay this amount between reply packets (each packet being
170 What server(s) this test case requires/uses:
193 Give only one per line. This subsection is mandatory.
197 A list of features that MUST be present in the client/library for this test to
198 be able to run (if these features are not present, the test will be
199 SKIPPED). Features testable here are:
220 as well as each protocol that curl supports. A protocol only needs to be
221 specified if it is different from the server (useful when the server
226 Using the same syntax as in <server> but when mentioned here these servers
227 are explicitly KILLED when this test case is completed. Only use this if there
228 is no other alternatives. Using this of course requires subsequent tests to
233 A command line that if set gets run by the test script before the test. If an
234 output is displayed by the command or if the return code is non-zero, the test
235 will be skipped and the (single-line) output will be displayed as reason for
236 not running the test. Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
240 A command line that if set gets run by the test script after the test. If
241 the command exists with a non-zero status code, the test will be considered
242 to have failed. Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
246 Name of tool to use instead of "curl". This tool must be built and exist
247 either in the libtest/ directory (if the tool starts with 'lib') or in the
248 unit/ directory (if the tool starts with 'unit').
252 test case description
259 Set the given environment variables to the specified value before the actual
260 command is run. They are cleared again after the command has been run.
261 Variables are first substituted as in the <command> section.
264 <command [option="no-output/no-include"] [timeout="secs"] [delay="secs"]
266 command line to run, there's a bunch of %variables that get replaced
269 Note that the URL that gets passed to the server actually controls what data
270 that is returned. The last slash in the URL must be followed by a number. That
271 number (N) will be used by the test-server to load test case N and return the
272 data that is defined within the <reply><data></data></reply> section.
274 If there's no test number found above, the HTTP test server will use the
275 number following the last dot in the given hostname (made so that a CONNECT
276 can still pass on test number) so that "foo.bar.123" gets treated as test case
277 123. Alternatively, if an ipv6-address is provided to CONNECT, the last
278 hexadecimal group in the address will be used as the test numer! For example
279 the address "[1234::ff]" would be treated as test case 255.
281 Set type="perl" to write the test case as a perl script. It implies that
282 there's no memory debugging and valgrind gets shut off for this test.
284 Set option="no-output" to prevent the test script to slap on the --output
285 argument that directs the output to a file. The --output is also not added if
286 the verify/stdout section is used.
288 Set option="no-include" to prevent the test script to slap on the --include
291 Set timeout="secs" to override default server logs advisor read lock timeout.
292 This timeout is used by the test harness, once that the command has completed
293 execution, to wait for the test server to write out server side log files and
294 remove the lock that advised not to read them. The "secs" parameter is the not
295 negative integer number of seconds for the timeout. This 'timeout' attribute
296 is documented for completeness sake, but is deep test harness stuff and only
297 needed for very singular and specific test cases. Avoid using it.
299 Set delay="secs" to introduce a time delay once that the command has completed
300 execution and before the <postcheck> section runs. The "secs" parameter is the
301 not negative integer number of seconds for the delay. This 'delay' attribute
302 is intended for very specific test cases, and normally not needed.
304 Available substitute variables include:
305 %CLIENTIP - IPv4 address of the client running curl
306 %CLIENT6IP - IPv6 address of the client running curl
307 %HOSTIP - IPv4 address of the host running this test
308 %HTTPPORT - Port number of the HTTP server
309 %HOST6IP - IPv6 address of the host running this test
310 %HTTP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the HTTP server
311 %HTTPSPORT - Port number of the HTTPS server
312 %PROXYPORT - Port number of the HTTP proxy
313 %FTPPORT - Port number of the FTP server
314 %FTP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the FTP server
315 %FTPSPORT - Port number of the FTPS server
316 %FTP2PORT - Port number of the FTP server 2
317 %FTPTIME2 - Timeout in seconds that should be just sufficient to receive
318 a response from the test FTP server
319 %TFTPPORT - Port number of the TFTP server
320 %TFTP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the TFTP server
321 %SSHPORT - Port number of the SCP/SFTP server
322 %SOCKSPORT - Port number of the SOCKS4/5 server
323 %RTSPPORT - Port number of the RTSP server
324 %RTSP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the RTSP server
325 %SRCDIR - Full path to the source dir
326 %PWD - Current directory
327 %CURL - Path to the curl executable
328 %USER - Login ID of the user running the test
331 <file name="log/filename">
332 This creates the named file with this content before the test case is run,
333 which is useful if the test case needs a file to act on.
334 Variables are substituted on the contents of the file as in the <command>
338 <stdin [nonewline="yes"]>
339 Pass this given data on stdin to the tool.
341 If 'nonewline' is set, we will cut off the trailing newline of this given data
342 before comparing with the one actually received by the client
349 numerical error code curl is supposed to return. Specify a list of accepted
350 error codes by separating multiple numbers with comma. See test 237 for an
354 One regex per line that is removed from the protocol dumps before the
355 comparison is made. This is very useful to remove dependencies on dynamically
356 changing protocol data such as port numbers or user-agent strings.
359 One perl op per line that operates on the protocol dump. This is pretty
360 advanced. Example: "s/^EPRT .*/EPRT stripped/"
363 <protocol [nonewline="yes"]>
365 the protocol dump curl should transmit, if 'nonewline' is set, we will cut off
366 the trailing newline of this given data before comparing with the one actually
367 sent by the client Variables are substituted as in the <command> section. The
368 <strip> and <strippart> rules are applied before comparisons are made.
372 <proxy [nonewline="yes"]>
374 The protocol dump curl should transmit to a HTTP proxy (when the http-proxy
375 server is used), if 'nonewline' is set, we will cut off the trailing newline
376 of this given data before comparing with the one actually sent by the client
377 Variables are substituted as in the <command> section. The <strip> and
378 <strippart> rules are applied before comparisons are made.
382 <stdout [mode="text"] [nonewline="yes"]>
383 This verifies that this data was passed to stdout. Variables are
384 substituted as in the <command> section.
386 Use the mode="text" attribute if the output is in text mode on platforms that
387 have a text/binary difference.
389 If 'nonewline' is set, we will cut off the trailing newline of this given data
390 before comparing with the one actually received by the client
392 <file name="log/filename" [mode="text"]>
393 The file's contents must be identical to this after the test is complete.
394 Use the mode="text" attribute if the output is in text mode on platforms that
395 have a text/binary difference.
396 Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
399 One perl op per line that operates on the file before being compared. This is
400 pretty advanced. Example: "s/^EPRT .*/EPRT stripped/"
403 the contents of the upload data curl should have sent
406 disable - disables the valgrind log check for this test