These changes span work from the last ~4 months in an effort to make
Caddy more extensible, reduce the coupling between its components, and
lay a more robust foundation of code going forward into 1.0. A bunch of
new features have been added, too, with even higher future potential.
The most significant design change is an overall inversion of
dependencies. Instead of the caddy package knowing about the server
and the notion of middleware and config, the caddy package exposes an
interface that other components plug into. This does introduce more
indirection when reading the code, but every piece is very modular and
pluggable. Even the HTTP server is pluggable.
The caddy package has been moved to the top level, and main has been
pushed into a subfolder called caddy. The actual logic of the main
file has been pushed even further into caddy/caddymain/run.go so that
custom builds of Caddy can be 'go get'able.
The HTTPS logic was surgically separated into two parts to divide the
TLS-specific code and the HTTPS-specific code. The caddytls package can
now be used by any type of server that needs TLS, not just HTTP. I also
added the ability to customize nearly every aspect of TLS at the site
level rather than all sites sharing the same TLS configuration. Not all
of this flexibility is exposed in the Caddyfile yet, but it may be in
the future. Caddy can also generate self-signed certificates in memory
for the convenience of a developer working on localhost who wants HTTPS.
And Caddy now supports the DNS challenge, assuming at least one DNS
provider is plugged in.
Dozens, if not hundreds, of other minor changes swept through the code
base as I literally started from an empty main function, copying over
functions or files as needed, then adjusting them to fit in the new
design. Most tests have been restored and adapted to the new API,
but more work is needed there.
A lot of what was "impossible" before is now possible, or can be made
possible with minimal disruption of the code. For example, it's fairly
easy to make plugins hook into another part of the code via callbacks.
Plugins can do more than just be directives; we now have plugins that
customize how the Caddyfile is loaded (useful when you need to get your
configuration from a remote store).
Site addresses no longer need be just a host and port. They can have a
path, allowing you to scope a configuration to a specific path. There is
no inheretance, however; each site configuration is distinct.
Thanks to amazing work by Lucas Clemente, this commit adds experimental
QUIC support. Turn it on using the -quic flag; your browser may have
to be configured to enable it.
Almost everything is here, but you will notice that most of the middle-
ware are missing. After those are transferred over, we'll be ready for
beta tests.
I'm very excited to get this out. Thanks for everyone's help and
patience these last few months. I hope you like it!!
fastcgi's ServeHTTP method originally returned the correct value (0) in
b51e8bc191. Later, I mistakenly suggested
we change that to return the status code because I forgot that status
codes aren't logged by the return value. So fastcgi broke due in
3966936bd6 due to my error.
We later had to try to make up for this with ugly Content-Length checks
like in c37ad7f677. Turns out that all we
had to do was fix the returned status here back to 0. The proxy
middleware behaves the same way, and returning 0 is correct. We should
only return a status code if the response has not been written, but with
upstream servers, we do write a response; they do not know about our
error handler.
Also clarifed this in the middleware.Handler documentation.
Most of the Windows test failures are due to the path separator not being "/". The general approach I took here was to keep paths in "URL form" (ie using "/" separators) as much as possible, and only convert to native paths when we attempt to open a file. This will allow the most consistency between different host OS. For example, data structures that store paths still store them with "/" delimiters. Functions that accepted paths as input and return them as outputs still use "/".
There are still a few test failures that need to be sorted out.
- config/setup/TestRoot (I hear this has already been fixed by someone else)
- middleware/basicauth/TestBrowseTemplate and middleware/templates/Test (a line endings issue that I'm still working through)
