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
63For FTP file listings, the <data> section will be used *only* if you make sure
64that 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
66test file to load the list content.
67
68</data>
69<dataNUM>
70Send back this contents instead of the <data> one. The num is set by:
71A) The test number in the request line is >10000 and this is the remainder
72of [test case number]%10000.
73B) The request was HTTP and included digest details, which adds 1000 to NUM
74C) If a HTTP request is NTLM type-1, it adds 1001 to num
75D) If a HTTP request is NTLM type-3, it adds 1002 to num
76E) If a HTTP request is Basic and num is already >=1000, it adds 1 to num
77
78Dynamically changing num in this way allows the test harness to be used to
79test authentication negotiation where several different requests must be sent
80to complete a transfer. The response to each request is found in its own data
81section.  Validating the entire negotiation sequence can be done by
82specifying a datacheck section.
83</dataNUM>
84<connect>
85The connect section is used instead of the 'data' for all CONNECT
86requests. The remainder of the rules for the data section then apply but with
87a connect prefix.
88</connect>
89<datacheck [nonewline="yes"]>
90if 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
92before comparing with the one actually received by the client
93</datacheck>
94<size>
95number to return on a ftp SIZE command (set to -1 to make this command fail)
96</size>
97<mdtm>
98what to send back if the client sends a (FTP) MDTM command, set to -1 to
99have it return that the file doesn't exist
100</mdtm>
101<postcmd>
102special purpose server-command to control its behavior *after* the
103reply is sent
104For HTTP/HTTPS, these are supported:
105
106wait [secs]
107 - Pause for the given time
108</postcmd>
109<servercmd>
110Special-commands for the server.
111For FTP/SMTP/POP/IMAP, these are supported:
112
113REPLY [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.
118COUNT [command] [num]
119 - Do the REPLY change for [command] only [num] times and then go back to the
120   built-in approach
121DELAY [command] [secs]
122 - Delay responding to this command for the given time
123RETRWEIRDO
124 - Enable the "weirdo" RETR case when multiple response lines appear at once
125   when a file is transfered
126RETRNOSIZE
127 - Make sure the RETR response doesn't contain the size of the file
128NOSAVE
129 - Don't actually save what is received
130SLOWDOWN
131 - Send FTP responses with 0.01 sec delay between each byte
132PASVBADIP
133 - makes PASV send back an illegal IP in its 227 response
134CAPA [capabilities]
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
137   commands
138AUTH [mechanisms]
139 - Enables support for SASL authentication and specifies a list of space
140   separated mechanisms for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP
141
142For HTTP/HTTPS:
143auth_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
145idle            do nothing after receiving the request, just "sit idle"
146stream          continuously send data to the client, never-ending
147writedelay: [secs] delay this amount between reply packets
148pipe: [num]     tell the server to expect this many HTTP requests before
149                sending back anything, to allow pipelining tests
150skip: [num]     instructs the server to ignore reading this many bytes from a PUT
151                or POST request
152
153rtp: 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
156
157connection-monitor When used, this will log [DISCONNECT] to the server.input
158               log when the connection is disconnected.
159
160
161For TFTP:
162writedelay: [secs] delay this amount between reply packets (each packet being
163                   512 bytes payload)
164</servercmd>
165</reply>
166
167<client>
168
169<server>
170What server(s) this test case requires/uses:
171
172file
173ftp
174ftp-ipv6
175ftps
176http
177http-ipv6
178http-proxy
179https
180httptls+srp
181httptls+srp-ipv6
182imap
183none
184pop3
185rtsp
186rtsp-ipv6
187scp
188sftp
189smtp
190socks4
191socks5
192
193Give only one per line.  This subsection is mandatory.
194</server>
195
196<features>
197A list of features that MUST be present in the client/library for this test to
198be able to run (if these features are not present, the test will be
199SKIPPED). Features testable here are:
200
201axTLS
202crypto
203debug
204getrlimit
205GnuTLS
206idn
207ipv6
208large_file
209libz
210Metalink
211NSS
212NTLM
213OpenSSL
214socks
215SSL
216TLS-SRP
217TrackMemory
218unittest
219
220as well as each protocol that curl supports.  A protocol only needs to be
221specified if it is different from the server (useful when the server
222is 'none').
223</features>
224
225<killserver>
226Using the same syntax as in <server> but when mentioned here these servers
227are explicitly KILLED when this test case is completed. Only use this if there
228is no other alternatives. Using this of course requires subsequent tests to
229restart servers.
230</killserver>
231
232<precheck>
233A command line that if set gets run by the test script before the test. If an
234output is displayed by the command or if the return code is non-zero, the test
235will be skipped and the (single-line) output will be displayed as reason for
236not running the test.  Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
237</precheck>
238
239<postcheck>
240A command line that if set gets run by the test script after the test. If
241the command exists with a non-zero status code, the test will be considered
242to have failed. Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
243</postcheck>
244
245<tool>
246Name of tool to use instead of "curl". This tool must be built and exist
247either in the libtest/ directory (if the tool starts with 'lib') or in the
248unit/ directory (if the tool starts with 'unit').
249</tool>
250
251<name>
252test case description
253</name>
254
255<setenv>
256variable1=contents1
257variable2=contents2
258
259Set the given environment variables to the specified value before the actual
260command is run. They are cleared again after the command has been run.
261Variables are first substituted as in the <command> section.
262</setenv>
263
264<command [option="no-output/no-include"] [timeout="secs"] [delay="secs"]
265         [type="perl"]>
266command line to run, there's a bunch of %variables that get replaced
267accordingly.
268
269Note that the URL that gets passed to the server actually controls what data
270that is returned. The last slash in the URL must be followed by a number. That
271number (N) will be used by the test-server to load test case N and return the
272data that is defined within the <reply><data></data></reply> section.
273
274If there's no test number found above, the HTTP test server will use the
275number following the last dot in the given hostname (made so that a CONNECT
276can still pass on test number) so that "foo.bar.123" gets treated as test case
277123. Alternatively, if an ipv6-address is provided to CONNECT, the last
278hexadecimal group in the address will be used as the test numer! For example
279the address "[1234::ff]" would be treated as test case 255.
280
281Set type="perl" to write the test case as a perl script. It implies that
282there's no memory debugging and valgrind gets shut off for this test.
283
284Set option="no-output" to prevent the test script to slap on the --output
285argument that directs the output to a file. The --output is also not added if
286the verify/stdout section is used.
287
288Set option="no-include" to prevent the test script to slap on the --include
289argument.
290
291Set timeout="secs" to override default server logs advisor read lock timeout.
292This timeout is used by the test harness, once that the command has completed
293execution, to wait for the test server to write out server side log files and
294remove the lock that advised not to read them. The "secs" parameter is the not
295negative integer number of seconds for the timeout. This 'timeout' attribute
296is documented for completeness sake, but is deep test harness stuff and only
297needed for very singular and specific test cases. Avoid using it.
298
299Set delay="secs" to introduce a time delay once that the command has completed
300execution and before the <postcheck> section runs. The "secs" parameter is the
301not negative integer number of seconds for the delay. This 'delay' attribute
302is intended for very specific test cases, and normally not needed.
303
304Available substitute variables include:
305%CLIENT6IP - IPv6 address of the client running curl
306%CLIENTIP  - IPv4 address of the client running curl
307%CURL      - Path to the curl executable
308%FTP2PORT  - Port number of the FTP server 2
309%FTP6PORT  - IPv6 port number of the FTP server
310%FTPPORT   - Port number of the FTP server
311%FTPSPORT  - Port number of the FTPS server
312%FTPTIME2  - Timeout in seconds that should be just sufficient to receive
313             a response from the test FTP server
314%FTPTIME3  - Even longer than %FTPTIME2
315%GOPHER6PORT  - IPv6 port number of the Gopher server
316%GOPHERPORT   - Port number of the Gopher server
317%HOST6IP      - IPv6 address of the host running this test
318%HOSTIP       - IPv4 address of the host running this test
319%HTTP6PORT    - IPv6 port number of the HTTP server
320%HTTPPIPEPORT - Port number of the HTTP pipelining server
321%HTTPPORT     - Port number of the HTTP server
322%HTTPSPORT    - Port number of the HTTPS server
323%HTTPTLS6PORT - IPv6 port number of the HTTP TLS server
324%HTTPTLSPORT  - Port number of the HTTP TLS server
325%IMAP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the IMAP server
326%IMAPPORT  - Port number of the IMAP server
327%POP36PORT - IPv6 ort number of the POP3 server
328%POP3PORT  - Port number of the POP3 server
329%PROXYPORT - Port number of the HTTP proxy
330%PWD       - Current directory
331%RTSP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the RTSP server
332%RTSPPORT  - Port number of the RTSP server
333%SMTP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the SMTP server
334%SMTPPORT  - Port number of the SMTP server
335%SOCKSPORT - Port number of the SOCKS4/5 server
336%SRCDIR    - Full path to the source dir
337%SSHPORT   - Port number of the SCP/SFTP server
338%TFTP6PORT - IPv6 port number of the TFTP server
339%TFTPPORT  - Port number of the TFTP server
340%USER      - Login ID of the user running the test
341</command>
342
343<file name="log/filename">
344This creates the named file with this content before the test case is run,
345which is useful if the test case needs a file to act on.
346Variables are substituted on the contents of the file as in the <command>
347section.
348</file>
349
350<stdin [nonewline="yes"]>
351Pass this given data on stdin to the tool.
352
353If 'nonewline' is set, we will cut off the trailing newline of this given data
354before comparing with the one actually received by the client
355</stdin>
356
357</client>
358
359<verify>
360<errorcode>
361numerical error code curl is supposed to return. Specify a list of accepted
362error codes by separating multiple numbers with comma. See test 237 for an
363example.
364</errorcode>
365<strip>
366One regex per line that is removed from the protocol dumps before the
367comparison is made. This is very useful to remove dependencies on dynamically
368changing protocol data such as port numbers or user-agent strings.
369</strip>
370<strippart>
371One perl op per line that operates on the protocol dump. This is pretty
372advanced. Example: "s/^EPRT .*/EPRT stripped/"
373</strippart>
374
375<protocol [nonewline="yes"]>
376
377the protocol dump curl should transmit, if 'nonewline' is set, we will cut off
378the trailing newline of this given data before comparing with the one actually
379sent by the client Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.  The
380<strip> and <strippart> rules are applied before comparisons are made.
381
382</protocol>
383
384<proxy [nonewline="yes"]>
385
386The protocol dump curl should transmit to a HTTP proxy (when the http-proxy
387server is used), if 'nonewline' is set, we will cut off the trailing newline
388of this given data before comparing with the one actually sent by the client
389Variables are substituted as in the <command> section. The <strip> and
390<strippart> rules are applied before comparisons are made.
391
392</proxy>
393
394<stdout [mode="text"] [nonewline="yes"]>
395This verifies that this data was passed to stdout.  Variables are
396substituted as in the <command> section.
397
398Use the mode="text" attribute if the output is in text mode on platforms that
399have a text/binary difference.
400
401If 'nonewline' is set, we will cut off the trailing newline of this given data
402before comparing with the one actually received by the client
403</stdout>
404<file name="log/filename" [mode="text"]>
405The file's contents must be identical to this after the test is complete.
406Use the mode="text" attribute if the output is in text mode on platforms that
407have a text/binary difference.
408Variables are substituted as in the <command> section.
409</file>
410<stripfile>
411One perl op per line that operates on the file before being compared. This is
412pretty advanced. Example: "s/^EPRT .*/EPRT stripped/"
413</stripfile>
414<upload>
415the contents of the upload data curl should have sent
416</upload>
417<valgrind>
418disable - disables the valgrind log check for this test
419</valgrind>
420</verify>
421
422</testcase>
423