# Jabber-RPC: J-RPC/HTTP Gateway # (experimental!) # (c) DJ Adams 2001 # $Id: HTTPgate.pm,v 1.1.1.1 2001/10/14 20:47:51 dj Exp $ =head1 NAME Jabber::RPC::HTTPgate - An HTTP gateway for Jabber-RPC / XML-RPC =head1 SYNOPSIS use Jabber::RPC::HTTPgate; my $gw = new Jabber::RPC::HTTPgate( server => 'myserver.org:5701', identauth => 'jrpchttp.localhost:secret', httpcomp => 'http', ); $gw->start; =head1 DESCRIPTION Jabber::RPC::HTTPgate is an experimental gateway that provides a conduit service between 'traditional' (HTTP-transported) XML-RPC encoded requests/responses and Jabber-RPC (XML-RPC encoded requests/responses transported over Jabber). The idea is that you can start a gateway, that connects as a component to the backbone of a Jabber server, and it proxies Jabber-RPC to HTTP-based XML-RPC endpoints, and vice versa. That means that your Jabber-RPC client can not only make XML-RPC encoded calls to a Jabber-RPC endpoint but also to a 'traditional' HTTP-based XML-RPC endpoint. And it also means that your 'traditional' HTTP-based XML-RPC client can make XML-RPC encoded calls to a Jabber-RPC endpoint. =head2 Jabber -> HTTP When you create and start up a gateway, it listens for Jabber-RPC calls, just like a normal Jabber-RPC responder. On receipt of such a call, the gateway creates an HTTP request and sends this request on to the HTTP-based XML-RPC endpoint. The response received back from this HTTP call is relayed back to the original Jabber-RPC requester. While a Jabber-RPC endpoint address is a Jabber ID (JID), an traditional XML-RPC endpoint address is a URL. So all the Jabber-RPC client needs to do is specify the URL in the I part of the gateway's endpoint JID. =head2 HTTP -> Jabber As well as listening for Jabber-RPC calls, a gateway will also service incoming HTTP requests that can be made to the HTTP component that this gateway uses. The HTTP component (called simply 'http') can be downloaded from the normal Jabber software repository. On receipt of an HTTP request (passed to it by the HTTP component), the gateway creates a Jabber-RPC request containing the XML-RPC encoded payload, and sends it on to the Jabber-RPC responder endpoint. This endpoint is identified (via a JID) by the I part of the URL used in the call by the traditional client. =head2 Diagram Here's what it all looks like: +---+ 2-----------+ 3-----------+ Jabber backbone -----> l | http |<-- HTTP -->| HTTP | l l===| component | | responder | 5-----------+ l l +-> |<- HTTP -+ | | | JabberRPC | l l | +-----------+ | +-----------+ | responder |===l l | | |(component)|<---+ l +---+ | 4-----------+ +-----------+ l| l | | | HTTP | l| 3-v---------+ +->| requester | 6-----------+ l+----->| HTTPgate | | | | JabberRPC | l| l===| component | +-----------+ | responder | l| +--->| | | (client) | l| |l +-----------+ +-----------+ l| |l ^ l| |l | l| |l v l| |l 7-----------+ l| |l | JSM |<---+ |l | component |===l |l | |<-----+l +-----------+ l ^ l l | : : v +---+ 8-----------+ | JabberRPC | | requester | | (client) | +-----------+ The diagram shows all the possible components in the Jabber-RPC and traditional HTTP-based XML-RPC world. Each box is numbered. Here are the descriptions: =over 4 =item 1 HTTPgate component This is an instance of this module (HTTPgate.pm) and serves as a gateway between HTTP-based and Jabber-based XML-RPC requests and responses. On the one side it uses an http component (see #2) to make and respond to HTTP calls, and on the other side it accepts and generates packets containing XML-RPC encoded payloads. =item 2 http component The HTTPgate component uses this http component to make and receive HTTP calls. HTTP calls and responses are routed between the HTTPgate component and this component via s. You need an http component like this for HTTPgate to work; download the code from http://download.jabber.org. =item 3 HTTP responder This represents a web server on which an XML-RPC responder is present. =item 4 HTTP requester This represents a traditional HTTP-based XML-RPC requester. =item 5 Jabber-RPC responder (component) This is a Jabber-RPC responder that has been attached to the Jabber backbone as a component. It responds to XML-RPC encoded requests carried in packets. =item 6 Jabber-RPC responder (client) This is a Jabber-RPC responder that is connected to Jabber via the JSM (Jabber Session Manager) as a client. It also responds to XML-RPC encoded requests carried in packets. =item 7 JSM component This doesn't have anything to do with Jabber-RPC per se, it's just that Jabber clients connect via the JSM. =item 8 Jabber-RPC requester This is a Jabber-RPC requester, in the form of a Jabber client, connected via the JSM. =head2 Some examples =over 4 =item 1 Jabber-RPC client makes request directed to an HTTP-based responder. The Jabber-RPC requester (#8) connects to Jabber via the JSM and creates an XML-RPC encoded request and stores it as the query payload of an IQ packet. The namespace qualifying the query payload is jabber:iq:rpc. Normally, if the request were to to go a Jabber-RPC responder, the JID of that responder (e.g. jrpc.localhost/jrpc-server) would be specified in the 'to' attribute of the IQ packet. But in this case, we want to send the request to an HTTP responder (#3), so we go through the gateway - the HTTPgate component (#3). The address of the HTTP responder is a URL, e.g.: http://localhost:8000/RPC2 So we need to specify this URL somewhere - and we specify it in the I part of the HTTPgate component's JID. So if the HTTPgate component's basic JID is jrpchttp.localhost, then we specify jrpchttp.localhost/http://localhost:8000/RPC2 as the target JID. =item 2 HTTP-based requester makes request directed to a Jabber-RPC responder. The HTTP requester (#4) formulates an XML-RPC encoded request and sends it to the http component (#2). What's the basic URL of the http component? Well, you specify a port in the component instance definition in the jabber.xml configuration file, like this: ./http/http.so 60 http-dns See the README in the http component tarball for more info. So the basic URL of the http component is e.g.: http://localhost:5281 While we need to specify a URL when we call a HTTP-based XML-RPC responder from Jabber, this time we need to specify a JID when calling a Jabber-based XML-RPC responder from HTTP. What we do is extend the URL by specifying JID as the I, like this: http://localhost:5281/jrpc@localhost/jrpc-server In this example, the Jabber-RPC responder is connected to Jabber as a client, not a component - you can tell this from the JID by the existence of an @ sign (user@hostname - users (their sessions) are managed by the JSM). =back =head2 Setting it all up You need three components to get this working in both directions; the HTTPgate component itself, the http component, and a helper DNS resolver component for when the http component wants to make outgoing HTTP requests. Setting up the latter two components are described in the http component's README. (The helper DNS resolver is identified in the example above by the tag). In the HTTPgate's instantiation call, e.g.: my $gw = new Jabber::RPC::HTTPgate( server => 'localhost:5701', identauth => 'jrpchttp.localhost:secret', httpcomp => 'http', ); there are three arguments required. =over 4 =item server This argument specifies the host and port to which the HTTPgate component will connect. You will need a corresponding component instance definition in your jabber.xml configuration file that looks like this: 127.0.0.1 secret 5701 =item identauth This is the identity and secret for the component, separated by a colon. The identity refers to the value of the 'id' attribute in the component instance definition, and the secret refers to the value of the tag. =item httpcomp This is used to specify the name of the http component, and refers to the value of the 'id' attribute in the http component's instance definition in jabber.xml - see earlier for an example of this. =back =head1 VERSION early =head1 AUTHOR DJ Adams =head1 SEE ALSO Jabber::RPC, Jabber::Connection =cut package Jabber::RPC::HTTPgate; use strict; use URI; use Jabber::Connection; use Jabber::NS qw(:all); use vars qw($VERSION); $VERSION = '0.01'; sub new { my $class = shift; my %args = @_; my $self = {}; $self->{server} = $args{server}; $self->{httpcomp} = $args{httpcomp}; ($self->{id}, $self->{pass}) = split(':', $args{identauth}); $self->{iq_requests} = { id => 1 }; $self->{c} = new Jabber::Connection( server => $self->{server}, localname => $self->{id}, ns => NS_ACCEPT, log => 1, ); $self->{c}->register_handler('iq', sub { $self->_reflect(@_) } ); $self->{c}->register_handler('iq', sub { $self->_relay_result(@_) } ); $self->{c}->register_handler('route', sub { $self->_handle_http(@_) } ); $self->{nf} = new Jabber::NodeFactory; $self->{c}->connect or die "Oops: ".$self->{c}->lastError; $self->{c}->auth($self->{pass}); bless $self => $class; return $self; } sub start { my $self = shift; $self->{c}->start; } sub _reflect { my $self = shift; my $node = shift; # Ignore irrelevant packets. What we want is # an IQ-set with a jabber:iq:rpc qualified NS return unless $node->attr('type') eq IQ_SET and my $query = $node->getTag('query', NS_RPC); my $request = $query->getTag('methodCall')->toStr; # my $request = $node->getTag('query', NS_RPC)->getTag('methodCall')->toStr; # We need to create a route packet to the http component # that looks like this: # # # # # the payload # # # # Store the request addresses # (we want to refer to this in handle_response()) $self->{iq_requests}->{++$self->{iq_requests}->{id}} = { 'from' => $node->attr('from'), 'to' => $node->attr('to'), 'id' => $node->attr('id'), }; my $route = $self->{nf}->newNode('route'); $route->attr('type', 'request'); $route->attr('to', $self->{httpcomp}); $route->attr('from', join('@', $self->{iq_requests}->{id}, $self->{id})); # Resource should contain the URL my (undef, undef, $r) = _parseJID($node->attr('to')); # Split up URL my $uri = new URI($r); my $http = $route->insertTag('http'); $http->attr('type', 'post'); $http->attr('to', $uri->host); $http->attr('port', $uri->port) if $uri->port; $http->attr('path', $uri->path) if $uri->path; # Insert the payload $http->insertTag('body')->rawdata($request); # Send it along to the http component $self->{c}->send($route); } sub _relay_result { my $self = shift; # Relaying the result of a JRPC IQ, via the http # component. We need to generate a routed packet # that looks like this: # # # # # my content # # my $node = shift; # Ignore irrelevant packets. What we # want is an IQ result with a NS_JRPC-qualified return unless ($node->attr('type') eq IQ_RESULT or $node->attr('type') eq IQ_ERROR) and my $query = $node->getTag('query', NS_RPC); # The resource on the 'to' is the http id # to send back to (undef, undef, my $httpid) = _parseJID($node->attr('to')); # Create route to send HTTP result back my $route = $self->{nf}->newNode('route'); $route->attr('type', 'result'); $route->attr('to', $httpid); $route->attr('from', $self->{id}); # Add http element my $http = $route->insertTag('http'); # We need to reflect any IQ-related error # (e.g. 502 Internal Timeout) - how ...? # As the HTTP status? Hmmm. if ($node->attr('type') eq IQ_ERROR) { my $error = $node->getTag('error'); $http->attr('status', join(' ', $error->attr('code'), $error->data)); } else { $http->attr('status', '200 OK'); } # Copy the payload from the IQ my $payload = $query->getTag('')->toStr; # usually methodResponse but will # be methodCall when type='error' # Add some headers my $header; $header = $http->insertTag('head'); $header->attr('Content-type', 'text/xml'); $header = $http->insertTag('head'); $header->attr('Content-length', length($payload)); $http->insertTag('body')->rawdata($payload); $self->{c}->send($route); } sub _handle_http { my $self = shift; my $node = shift; # Ignore everything except from the http component my (undef, $sending_host, undef) = _parseJID($node->attr('from')); return unless $sending_host eq $self->{httpcomp}; # Either it's a request or a result: # A request: an incoming HTTP call to be reflected # to a Jabber-component/client based responder # A result: the result of our making an HTTP call in # a Jabber-to-HTTP reflection if ($node->attr('type') eq 'request') { $self->_handle_http_request($node) } if ($node->attr('type') eq 'result') { $self->_handle_http_result($node) } return; } sub _handle_http_request { my $self = shift; my $node = shift; # Request will look like this: # # # # foo # # my $http = $node->getTag('http'); # Ignore non-POST requests return unless $http->attr('type') eq 'post'; # Get path - this is the JID of the Jabber-RPC responder my $jid = $http->attr('path'); $jid =~ s|^\/||; # must remove initial slash # Get the payload my $payload = $http->getTag('body')->getTag('methodCall')->toStr; # Construct the request IQ my $iq = $self->{nf}->newNode('iq'); $iq->attr('type', IQ_SET); $iq->attr('from', join('/', $self->{id}, $node->attr('from'))); $iq->attr('to', $jid); $iq->insertTag('query', NS_RPC)->rawdata($payload); $self->{c}->send($iq); } sub _handle_http_result { my $self = shift; my $node = shift; # Set up response my $response = $self->{nf}->newNode('iq'); # Get the key for our request hash - it's in # the user part of the JID my ($u, undef, undef) = _parseJID($node->attr('to')); # Address the response $response->attr('to', $self->{iq_requests}->{$u}->{from}); $response->attr('from', $self->{iq_requests}->{$u}->{to}); # Respond with the id from the request $response->attr('id', $self->{iq_requests}->{$u}->{id}); # Reflect the type (result|error) from the route # into the returning IQ $response->attr('type', $node->attr('type')); if ($response->attr('type') eq IQ_ERROR) { my $error = $response->insertTag('error'); $error->attr('code', '502'); $error->data('Remote Server Error'); } # Transfer the payload from the result to our IQ # (If it's an error, the HTTP component returns the # original payload. This is nice.) my $query = $response->insertTag('query', NS_RPC); my $payload = $node->getTag('http')->getTag('body')->getTag(''); $query->rawdata($payload->toStr); $self->{c}->send($response); } sub _parseJID { my $jid = shift; my ($user, $host, $resource, $rest); # Is there a username part? (an @ before any /) if ($jid =~ m[^[^\/]+@]) { ($user, $rest) = split("@", $jid, 2); } else { $rest = $jid; } ($host, $resource) = split('/', $rest, 2); return ($user, $host, $resource); } 1;