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").
64 Send back this contents instead of the <data> one. The num is set by:
65 A) The test number in the request line is >10000 and this is the remainder
66 of [test case number]%10000.
67 B) The request was HTTP and included digest details, which adds 1000 to NUM
68 C) If a HTTP request is NTLM type-1, it adds 1001 to num
69 D) If a HTTP request is NTLM type-3, it adds 1002 to num
70 E) If a HTTP request is Basic and num is already >=1000, it adds 1 to num
72 Dynamically changing num in this way allows the test harness to be used to
73 test authentication negotiation where several different requests must be sent
74 to complete a transfer. The response to each request is found in its own data
75 section. Validating the entire negotiation sequence can be done by
76 specifying a datacheck section.
78 <datacheck [nonewline="yes"]>
79 if the data is sent but this is what should be checked afterwards. If
80 'nonewline' is set, we will cut off the trailing newline of this given data
81 before comparing with the one actually received by the client
84 number to return on a ftp SIZE command (set to -1 to make this command fail)
87 what to send back if the client sends a (FTP) MDTM command, set to -1 to
88 have it return that the file doesn't exist
91 special purpose server-command to control its behavior *after* the
93 For HTTP/HTTPS, these are supported:
96 - Pause for the given time
99 Special-commands for the server.
100 For FTP, these are supported:
102 REPLY [command] [return value] [response string]
103 - Changes how the server responds to the [command]. [response string] is
104 evaluated as a perl string, so it can contain embedded \r\n, for example.
105 COUNT [command] [num]
106 - Do the REPLY change for [command] only [num] times and then go back to the
108 DELAY [command] [secs]
109 - Delay responding to this command for the given time
111 - Enable the "weirdo" RETR case when multiple response lines appear at once
112 when a file is transfered
114 - Make sure the RETR response doesn't contain the size of the file
116 - Don't actually save what is received
118 - Send FTP responses with 0.01 sec delay between each byte
120 - makes PASV send back an illegal IP in its 227 response
123 auth_required if this is set and a POST/PUT is made without auth, the
124 server will NOT wait for the full request body to get sent
125 idle do nothing after receiving the request, just "sit idle"
126 stream continuously send data to the client, never-ending
127 writedelay: [secs] delay this amount between reply packets
128 pipe: [num] tell the server to expect this many HTTP requests before
129 sending back anything, to allow pipelining tests
130 skip: [num] instructs the server to ignore reading this many bytes from a PUT
133 rtp: part [num] channel [num] size [num]
134 stream a fake RTP packet for the given part on a chosen channel
135 with the given payload size
142 What server(s) this test case requires/uses:
162 Give only one per line. This subsection is mandatory.
166 A list of features that MUST be present in the client/library for this test to
167 be able to run (if these features are not present, the test will be
168 SKIPPED). Features testable here are:
184 as well as each protocol that curl supports. A protocol only needs to be
185 specified if it is different from the server (useful when the server
190 Using the same syntax as in <server> but when mentioned here these servers
191 are explicitly KILLED when this test case is completed. Only use this if there
192 is no other alternatives. Using this of course requires subsequent tests to
197 A command line that if set gets run by the test script before the test. If an
198 output is displayed by the command or if the return code is non-zero, the test
199 will be skipped and the (single-line) output will be displayed as reason for
200 not running the test. Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
204 A command line that if set gets run by the test script after the test. If
205 the command exists with a non-zero status code, the test will be considered
206 to have failed. Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
210 Name of tool to use instead of "curl". This tool must be built and exist
211 in the libtest/ directory.
215 test case description
222 Set the given environment variables to the specified value before the actual
223 command is run. They are cleared again after the command has been run.
224 Variables are first substituted as in the <command> section.
227 <command [option="no-output"] [timeout="secs"] [delay="secs"] [type="perl"]>
228 command line to run, there's a bunch of %variables that get replaced
231 Note that the URL that gets passed to the server actually controls what data
232 that is returned. The last slash in the URL must be followed by a number. That
233 number (N) will be used by the test-server to load test case N and return the
234 data that is defined within the <reply><data></data></reply> section.
236 If a CONNECT is used to the server (to emulate HTTPS etc over proxy), the port
237 number given in the CONNECT request will be used to identify which test that
238 is being run, if the proxy host name is said to start with 'test'.
240 Set type="perl" to write the test case as a perl script. It implies that
241 there's no memory debugging and valgrind gets shut off for this test.
243 Set option="no-output" to prevent the test script to slap on the --output
244 argument that directs the output to a file. The --output is also not added if
245 the verify/stdout section is used.
247 Set timeout="secs" to override default server logs advisor read lock timeout.
248 This timeout is used by the test harness, once that the command has completed
249 execution, to wait for the test server to write out server side log files and
250 remove the lock that advised not to read them. The "secs" parameter is the not
251 negative integer number of seconds for the timeout. This 'timeout' attribute
252 is documented for completeness sake, but is deep test harness stuff and only
253 needed for very singular and specific test cases. Avoid using it.
255 Set delay="secs" to introduce a time delay once that the command has completed
256 execution and before the <postcheck> section runs. The "secs" parameter is the
257 not negative integer number of seconds for the delay. This 'delay' attribute
258 is intended for very specific test cases, and normally not needed.
260 Available substitute variables include:
261 %CLIENTIP - IPv4 address of the client running curl
262 %CLIENT6IP - IPv6 address of the client running curl
263 %HOSTIP - IPv4 address of the host running this test
264 %HOSTPORT - Port number of the HTTP server
265 %HOST6IP - IPv6 address of the host running this test
266 %HOST6PORT - IPv6 port number of the HTTP server
267 %HTTPSPORT - Port number of the HTTPS server
268 %FTPPORT - Port number of the FTP server
269 %FTP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the FTP server
270 %FTPSPORT - Port number of the FTPS server
271 %FTP2PORT - Port number of the FTP server 2
272 %FTPTIME2 - Timeout in seconds that should be just sufficient to receive
273 a response from the test FTP server
274 %TFTPPORT - Port number of the TFTP server
275 %TFTP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the TFTP server
276 %SSHPORT - Port number of the SCP/SFTP server
277 %SOCKSPORT - Port number of the SOCKS4/5 server
278 %RTSPPORT - Port number of the RTSP server
279 %RTSP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the RTSP server
280 %SRCDIR - Full path to the source dir
281 %PWD - Current directory
282 %CURL - Path to the curl executable
283 %USER - Login ID of the user running the test
286 <file name="log/filename">
287 This creates the named file with this content before the test case is run,
288 which is useful if the test case needs a file to act on.
289 Variables are substituted on the contents of the file as in the <command>
294 Pass this given data on stdin to the tool.
301 numerical error code curl is supposed to return. Specify a list of accepted
302 error codes by separating multiple numbers with comma. See test 237 for an
306 One regex per line that is removed from the protocol dumps before the
307 comparison is made. This is very useful to remove dependencies on dynamically
308 changing protocol data such as port numbers or user-agent strings.
311 One perl op per line that operates on the protocol dump. This is pretty
312 advanced. Example: "s/^EPRT .*/EPRT stripped/"
314 <protocol [nonewline="yes"]>
315 the protocol dump curl should transmit, if 'nonewline' is set, we will cut
316 off the trailing newline of this given data before comparing with the one
317 actually sent by the client
318 Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
320 <stdout [mode="text"] [nonewline="yes"]>
321 This verifies that this data was passed to stdout. Variables are
322 substituted as in the <command> section.
324 Use the mode="text" attribute if the output is in text mode on platforms that
325 have a text/binary difference.
327 If 'nonewline' is set, we will cut off the trailing newline of this given data
328 before comparing with the one actually received by the client
330 <file name="log/filename" [mode="text"]>
331 The file's contents must be identical to this after the test is complete.
332 Use the mode="text" attribute if the output is in text mode on platforms that
333 have a text/binary difference.
334 Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
337 One perl op per line that operates on the file before being compared. This is
338 pretty advanced. Example: "s/^EPRT .*/EPRT stripped/"
341 the contents of the upload data curl should have sent
344 disable - disables the valgrind log check for this test