curl/include
Matthias Gatto 08e8455ddd
http: introduce AWS HTTP v4 Signature
It is a security process for HTTP.

It doesn't seems to be standard, but it is used by some cloud providers.

Aws:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signature-version-4.html
Outscale:
https://wiki.outscale.net/display/EN/Creating+a+Canonical+Request
GCP (I didn't test that this code work with GCP though):
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/signing-urls-manually

most of the code is in lib/http_v4_signature.c

Information require by the algorithm:
- The URL
- Current time
-  some prefix that are append to some of the signature parameters.

The data extracted from the URL are: the URI, the region,
the host and the API type

example:
https://api.eu-west-2.outscale.com/api/latest/ReadNets
        ~~~ ~~~~~~~~               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        ^       ^                          ^
       /         \                        URI
   API type     region

Small description of the algorithm:
- make canonical header using content type, the host, and the date
- hash the post data
- make canonical_request using custom request, the URI,
  the get data, the canonical header, the signed header
  and post data hash
- hash canonical_request
- make str_to_sign using one of the prefix pass in parameter,
  the date, the credential scope and the canonical_request hash
- compute hmac from date, using secret key as key.
- compute hmac from region, using above hmac as key
- compute hmac from api_type, using above hmac as key
- compute hmac from request_type, using above hmac as key
- compute hmac from str_to_sign using above hmac as key
- create Authorization header using above hmac, prefix pass in parameter,
  the date, and above hash

Signed-off-by: Matthias Gatto <matthias.gatto@outscale.com>

Closes #5703
2020-12-21 16:27:50 +01:00
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include

Public include files for libcurl, external users.

They're all placed in the curl subdirectory here for better fit in any kind of environment. You must include files from here using...

#include <curl/curl.h>

... style and point the compiler's include path to the directory holding the curl subdirectory. It makes it more likely to survive future modifications.

The public curl include files can be shared freely between different platforms and different architectures.