1 The test suite's file format is very simple and extensible, closely
2resembling XML. All data for a single test case resides in a single
3ASCII file. Labels mark the beginning and the end of all sections, and each
4label must be written in its own line.  Comments are either XML-style
5(enclosed with <!-- and -->) or C-style (beginning with #) and must appear
6on their own lines and not alongside actual test data.  Most test data files
7are syntactically valid XML, although a few files are not (lack of
8support for character entities and the preservation of CR/LF characters at
9the end of lines are the biggest differences).
10
11 The file begins with a 'testcase' tag, which encompasses the remainder of
12the file.
13
14<testcase>
15
16 Each file is split up in three main sections: reply, client and verify. The
17reply section is used for the server to know what to send as a reply for the
18requests curl sends, the client section defines how the client should behave
19while the verify section defines how to verify that the data stored after a
20command has been run ended up correctly.
21
22 Each main section has a number of available subsections that can be
23specified, that will be checked/used if specified. This document includes all
24the subsections currently supported.
25
26Main sections are 'info', 'reply', 'client' and 'verify'.
27
28<info>
29<keywords>
30A newline-separated list of keywords describing what this test case uses and
31tests. Try to use an already used keyword.  These keywords will be used for
32statistical/informational purposes and for choosing or skipping classes
33of tests.  "Keywords" must begin with an alphabetic character, "-", "["
34or "{" and may actually consist of multiple words separated by spaces
35which are treated together as a single identifier.
36</keywords>
37</info>
38
39<reply>
40<data [nocheck="yes"] [sendzero="yes"] [base64="yes"]>
41data to be sent to the client on its request and later verified that it arrived
42safely. Set nocheck="yes" to prevent the test script from verifying the arrival
43of this data.
44
45If the data contains 'swsclose' anywhere within the start and end tag, and
46this is a HTTP test, then the connection will be closed by the server after
47this response is sent. If not, the connection will be kept persistent.
48
49If the data contains 'swsbounce' anywhere within the start and end tag, the
50HTTP server will detect if this is a second request using the same test and
51part number and will then increase the part number with one. This is useful
52for auth tests and similar.
53
54'sendzero' set to yes means that the (FTP) server will "send" the data even if
55the size is zero bytes. Used to verify curl's behaviour on zero bytes
56transfers.
57
58'base64' set to yes means that the data provided in the test-file is a chunk
59of data encoded with base64. It is the only way a test case can contain binary
60data. (This attribute can in fact be used on any section, but it doesn't make
61much sense for other sections than "data").
62</data>
63<dataNUM>
64Send back this contents instead of the <data> one. The num is set by:
65A) The test number in the request line is >10000 and this is the remainder
66of [test case number]%10000.
67B) The request was HTTP and included digest details, which adds 1000 to NUM
68C) If a HTTP request is NTLM type-1, it adds 1001 to num
69D) If a HTTP request is NTLM type-3, it adds 1002 to num
70E) If a HTTP request is Basic and num is already >=1000, it adds 1 to num
71
72Dynamically changing num in this way allows the test harness to be used to
73test authentication negotiation where several different requests must be sent
74to complete a transfer. The response to each request is found in its own data
75section.  Validating the entire negotiation sequence can be done by
76specifying a datacheck section.
77</dataNUM>
78<datacheck [nonewline="yes"]>
79if 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
81before comparing with the one actually received by the client
82</datacheck>
83<size>
84number to return on a ftp SIZE command (set to -1 to make this command fail)
85</size>
86<mdtm>
87what to send back if the client sends a (FTP) MDTM command, set to -1 to
88have it return that the file doesn't exist
89</mdtm>
90<postcmd>
91special purpose server-command to control its behavior *after* the
92reply is sent
93For HTTP/HTTPS, these are supported:
94
95wait [secs]
96 - Pause for the given time
97</postcmd>
98<servercmd>
99Special-commands for the server.
100For FTP, these are supported:
101
102REPLY [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.
105COUNT [command] [num]
106 - Do the REPLY change for [command] only [num] times and then go back to the
107   built-in approach
108DELAY [command] [secs]
109 - Delay responding to this command for the given time
110RETRWEIRDO
111 - Enable the "weirdo" RETR case when multiple response lines appear at once
112   when a file is transfered
113RETRNOSIZE
114 - Make sure the RETR response doesn't contain the size of the file
115NOSAVE
116 - Don't actually save what is received
117SLOWDOWN
118 - Send FTP responses with 0.01 sec delay between each byte
119PASVBADIP
120 - makes PASV send back an illegal IP in its 227 response
121
122For HTTP/HTTPS:
123auth_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
125idle            do nothing after receiving the request, just "sit idle"
126stream          continuously send data to the client, never-ending
127writedelay: [secs] delay this amount between reply packets
128pipe: [num]     tell the server to expect this many HTTP requests before
129                sending back anything, to allow pipelining tests
130skip: [num]     instructs the server to ignore reading this many bytes from a PUT
131                or POST request
132
133rtp: 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
136</servercmd>
137</reply>
138
139<client>
140
141<server>
142What server(s) this test case requires/uses:
143
144file
145ftp
146ftp-ipv6
147ftps
148http
149http-ipv6
150https
151none
152scp
153sftp
154socks4
155socks5
156rtsp
157rtsp-ipv6
158imap
159pop3
160smtp
161http+tls-srp
162
163Give only one per line.  This subsection is mandatory.
164</server>
165
166<features>
167A list of features that MUST be present in the client/library for this test to
168be able to run (if these features are not present, the test will be
169SKIPPED). Features testable here are:
170
171axTLS
172crypto
173getrlimit
174GnuTLS
175idn
176ipv6
177large_file
178libz
179netrc_debug
180NSS
181NTLM
182OpenSSL
183SSL
184socks
185unittest
186
187as well as each protocol that curl supports.  A protocol only needs to be
188specified if it is different from the server (useful when the server
189is 'none').
190</features>
191
192<killserver>
193Using the same syntax as in <server> but when mentioned here these servers
194are explicitly KILLED when this test case is completed. Only use this if there
195is no other alternatives. Using this of course requires subsequent tests to
196restart servers.
197</killserver>
198
199<precheck>
200A command line that if set gets run by the test script before the test. If an
201output is displayed by the command or if the return code is non-zero, the test
202will be skipped and the (single-line) output will be displayed as reason for
203not running the test.  Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
204</precheck>
205
206<postcheck>
207A command line that if set gets run by the test script after the test. If
208the command exists with a non-zero status code, the test will be considered
209to have failed. Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
210</postcheck>
211
212<tool>
213Name of tool to use instead of "curl". This tool must be built and exist
214either in the libtest/ directory (if the tool starts with 'lib') or in the
215unit/ directory (if the tool starts with 'unit').
216</tool>
217
218<name>
219test case description
220</name>
221
222<setenv>
223variable1=contents1
224variable2=contents2
225
226Set the given environment variables to the specified value before the actual
227command is run. They are cleared again after the command has been run.
228Variables are first substituted as in the <command> section.
229</setenv>
230
231<command [option="no-output"] [timeout="secs"] [delay="secs"] [type="perl"]>
232command line to run, there's a bunch of %variables that get replaced
233accordingly.
234
235Note that the URL that gets passed to the server actually controls what data
236that is returned. The last slash in the URL must be followed by a number. That
237number (N) will be used by the test-server to load test case N and return the
238data that is defined within the <reply><data></data></reply> section.
239
240If a CONNECT is used to the server (to emulate HTTPS etc over proxy), the port
241number given in the CONNECT request will be used to identify which test that
242is being run, if the proxy host name is said to start with 'test'.
243
244Set type="perl" to write the test case as a perl script. It implies that
245there's no memory debugging and valgrind gets shut off for this test.
246
247Set option="no-output" to prevent the test script to slap on the --output
248argument that directs the output to a file. The --output is also not added if
249the verify/stdout section is used.
250
251Set timeout="secs" to override default server logs advisor read lock timeout.
252This timeout is used by the test harness, once that the command has completed
253execution, to wait for the test server to write out server side log files and
254remove the lock that advised not to read them. The "secs" parameter is the not
255negative integer number of seconds for the timeout. This 'timeout' attribute
256is documented for completeness sake, but is deep test harness stuff and only
257needed for very singular and specific test cases. Avoid using it.
258
259Set delay="secs" to introduce a time delay once that the command has completed
260execution and before the <postcheck> section runs. The "secs" parameter is the
261not negative integer number of seconds for the delay. This 'delay' attribute
262is intended for very specific test cases, and normally not needed.
263
264Available substitute variables include:
265%CLIENTIP   - IPv4 address of the client running curl
266%CLIENT6IP  - IPv6 address of the client running curl
267%HOSTIP    - IPv4 address of the host running this test
268%HOSTPORT  - Port number of the HTTP server
269%HOST6IP   - IPv6 address of the host running this test
270%HOST6PORT - IPv6 port number of the HTTP server
271%HTTPSPORT - Port number of the HTTPS server
272%FTPPORT   - Port number of the FTP server
273%FTP6PORT  - IPv6 port number of the FTP server
274%FTPSPORT  - Port number of the FTPS server
275%FTP2PORT  - Port number of the FTP server 2
276%FTPTIME2  - Timeout in seconds that should be just sufficient to receive
277             a response from the test FTP server
278%TFTPPORT  - Port number of the TFTP server
279%TFTP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the TFTP server
280%SSHPORT   - Port number of the SCP/SFTP server
281%SOCKSPORT - Port number of the SOCKS4/5 server
282%RTSPPORT  - Port number of the RTSP server
283%RTSP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the RTSP server
284%SRCDIR    - Full path to the source dir
285%PWD       - Current directory
286%CURL      - Path to the curl executable
287%USER      - Login ID of the user running the test
288</command>
289
290<file name="log/filename">
291This creates the named file with this content before the test case is run,
292which is useful if the test case needs a file to act on.
293Variables are substituted on the contents of the file as in the <command>
294section.
295</file>
296
297<stdin>
298Pass this given data on stdin to the tool.
299</stdin>
300
301</client>
302
303<verify>
304<errorcode>
305numerical error code curl is supposed to return. Specify a list of accepted
306error codes by separating multiple numbers with comma. See test 237 for an
307example.
308</errorcode>
309<strip>
310One regex per line that is removed from the protocol dumps before the
311comparison is made. This is very useful to remove dependencies on dynamically
312changing protocol data such as port numbers or user-agent strings.
313</strip>
314<strippart>
315One perl op per line that operates on the protocol dump. This is pretty
316advanced. Example: "s/^EPRT .*/EPRT stripped/"
317</strippart>
318<protocol [nonewline="yes"]>
319the protocol dump curl should transmit, if 'nonewline' is set, we will cut
320off the trailing newline of this given data before comparing with the one
321actually sent by the client
322Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
323</protocol>
324<stdout [mode="text"] [nonewline="yes"]>
325This verifies that this data was passed to stdout.  Variables are
326substituted as in the <command> section.
327
328Use the mode="text" attribute if the output is in text mode on platforms that
329have a text/binary difference.
330
331If 'nonewline' is set, we will cut off the trailing newline of this given data
332before comparing with the one actually received by the client
333</stdout>
334<file name="log/filename" [mode="text"]>
335The file's contents must be identical to this after the test is complete.
336Use the mode="text" attribute if the output is in text mode on platforms that
337have a text/binary difference.
338Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
339</file>
340<stripfile>
341One perl op per line that operates on the file before being compared. This is
342pretty advanced. Example: "s/^EPRT .*/EPRT stripped/"
343</stripfile>
344<upload>
345the contents of the upload data curl should have sent
346</upload>
347<valgrind>
348disable - disables the valgrind log check for this test
349</valgrind>
350</verify>
351
352</testcase>
353