threaded-ssl.c is a little example that does multi-threaded downloads from

HTTPS sites with OpenSSL-enabled libcurl (and pthreads) and thus do the
thread-locking and things openssl-style.

2 files changed, 125 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/examples/Makefile.am b/docs/examples/Makefile.am
index 73383131e..16f3152b5 100644
--- a/docs/examples/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/examples/Makefile.am
@@ -33,5 +33,5 @@ noinst_PROGRAMS = 10-at-a-time anyauthput cookie_interface \
 COMPLICATED_EXAMPLES = \
  curlgtk.c curlx.c htmltitle.cc cacertinmem.c ftpuploadresume.c \
  ghiper.c hiperfifo.c htmltidy.c multithread.c \
- opensslthreadlock.c sampleconv.c synctime.c
+ opensslthreadlock.c sampleconv.c synctime.c threaded-ssl.c
 
diff --git a/docs/examples/threaded-ssl.c b/docs/examples/threaded-ssl.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e49443d40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/threaded-ssl.c
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+/*****************************************************************************
+ *                                  _   _ ____  _
+ *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
+ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
+ *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
+ *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+ *
+ * $Id$
+ *
+ * A multi-threaded example that uses pthreads and fetches 4 remote files at
+ * once over HTTPS. The lock callbacks and stuff assume OpenSSL so far.
+ * Should be expanded to do optional GnuTLS style locking.
+ *
+ * OpenSSL docs for this: http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/threads.html
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+#include <openssl/crypto.h>
+
+/* we have this global to let the callback get easy access to it */
+static pthread_mutex_t *lockarray;
+
+static void lock_callback(int mode, int type, char *file, int line)
+{
+  (void)file;
+  (void)line;
+  if (mode & CRYPTO_LOCK) {
+    pthread_mutex_lock(&(lockarray[type]));
+  }
+  else {
+    pthread_mutex_unlock(&(lockarray[type]));
+  }
+}
+
+static unsigned long thread_id(void)
+{
+  unsigned long ret;
+
+  ret=(unsigned long)pthread_self();
+  return(ret);
+}
+
+static void init_locks(void)
+{
+  int i;
+
+  lockarray=(pthread_mutex_t *)OPENSSL_malloc(CRYPTO_num_locks() *
+                                            sizeof(pthread_mutex_t));
+  for (i=0; i<CRYPTO_num_locks(); i++) {
+    pthread_mutex_init(&(lockarray[i]),NULL);
+  }
+
+  CRYPTO_set_id_callback((unsigned long (*)())thread_id);
+  CRYPTO_set_locking_callback((void (*)())lock_callback);
+}
+
+static void kill_locks(void)
+{
+  int i;
+
+  CRYPTO_set_locking_callback(NULL);
+  for (i=0; i<CRYPTO_num_locks(); i++)
+    pthread_mutex_destroy(&(lockarray[i]));
+
+  OPENSSL_free(lockarray);
+}
+
+/* List of URLs to fetch.*/
+const char *urls[]= {
+  "https://www.sf.net/",
+  "https://www.openssl.org/",
+  "https://www.sf.net/",
+  "https://www.openssl.org/",
+};
+
+static void *pull_one_url(void *url)
+{
+  CURL *curl;
+
+  curl = curl_easy_init();
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
+  /* this example doesn't verify the server's certificate, which means we
+     might be downloading stuff from an impostor */
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
+  curl_easy_perform(curl); /* ignores error */
+  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+
+  return NULL;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+  pthread_t tid[4];
+  int i;
+  int error;
+  (void)argc; /* we don't use any arguments in this example */
+  (void)argv;
+
+  init_locks();
+
+  for(i=0; i< 4; i++) {
+    error = pthread_create(&tid[i],
+                           NULL, /* default attributes please */
+                           pull_one_url,
+                           (void *)urls[i]);
+    if(0 != error)
+      fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't run thread number %d, errno %d\n", i, error);
+    else
+      fprintf(stderr, "Thread %d, gets %s\n", i, urls[i]);
+  }
+
+  /* now wait for all threads to terminate */
+  for(i=0; i< 4; i++) {
+    error = pthread_join(tid[i], NULL);
+    fprintf(stderr, "Thread %d terminated\n", i);
+  }
+
+  kill_locks();
+
+  return 0;
+}