From 11d7a7d505717b2574e43f157c10a681f3f8c134 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonas Schnelli <jonas.schnelli@include7.ch>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 23:14:25 +0100
Subject: [RPC] add rpc-test for http keep-alive (persistent connections)

---
 qa/rpc-tests/httpbasics.py | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 qa/rpc-tests/httpbasics.py

(limited to 'qa/rpc-tests')

diff --git a/qa/rpc-tests/httpbasics.py b/qa/rpc-tests/httpbasics.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..a94edaffa5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qa/rpc-tests/httpbasics.py
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
+# Copyright (c) 2014 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#
+# Test REST interface
+#
+
+from test_framework import BitcoinTestFramework
+from util import *
+import base64
+
+try:
+    import http.client as httplib
+except ImportError:
+    import httplib
+try:
+    import urllib.parse as urlparse
+except ImportError:
+    import urlparse
+
+class RESTTest (BitcoinTestFramework):        
+    def run_test(self):        
+        
+        #################################################
+        # lowlevel check for http persistent connection #
+        #################################################
+        url = urlparse.urlparse(self.nodes[0].url)
+        authpair = url.username + ':' + url.password
+        headers = {"Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode(authpair)}
+        
+        conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(url.hostname, url.port)
+        conn.connect()
+        conn.request('GET', '/', '{"method": "getbestblockhash"}', headers)
+        out1 = conn.getresponse().read();
+        assert_equal('"error":null' in out1, True)
+        assert_equal(conn.sock!=None, True) #according to http/1.1 connection must still be open!
+        
+        #send 2nd request without closing connection
+        conn.request('GET', '/', '{"method": "getchaintips"}', headers)
+        out2 = conn.getresponse().read();
+        assert_equal('"error":null' in out1, True) #must also response with a correct json-rpc message
+        assert_equal(conn.sock!=None, True) #according to http/1.1 connection must still be open!
+        conn.close()
+        
+        #same should be if we add keep-alive because this should be the std. behaviour
+        headers = {"Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode(authpair), "Connection": "keep-alive"}
+        
+        conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(url.hostname, url.port)
+        conn.connect()
+        conn.request('GET', '/', '{"method": "getbestblockhash"}', headers)
+        out1 = conn.getresponse().read();
+        assert_equal('"error":null' in out1, True)
+        assert_equal(conn.sock!=None, True) #according to http/1.1 connection must still be open!
+        
+        #send 2nd request without closing connection
+        conn.request('GET', '/', '{"method": "getchaintips"}', headers)
+        out2 = conn.getresponse().read();
+        assert_equal('"error":null' in out1, True) #must also response with a correct json-rpc message
+        assert_equal(conn.sock!=None, True) #according to http/1.1 connection must still be open!
+        conn.close()
+        
+        #now do the same with "Connection: close"
+        headers = {"Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode(authpair), "Connection":"close"}
+        
+        conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(url.hostname, url.port)
+        conn.connect()
+        conn.request('GET', '/', '{"method": "getbestblockhash"}', headers)
+        out1 = conn.getresponse().read();
+        assert_equal('"error":null' in out1, True)
+        assert_equal(conn.sock!=None, False) #now the connection must be closed after the response        
+        
+        
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    RESTTest ().main ()
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