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threaded-ssl.c

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/* <DESC>
 * Show the required mutex callback setups for GnuTLS and OpenSSL when using
 * libcurl multi-threaded.
 * </DESC>
 */
/* A multi-threaded example that uses pthreads and fetches 4 remote files at
 * once over HTTPS. The lock callbacks and stuff assume OpenSSL <1.1 or GnuTLS
 * (libgcrypt) so far.
 *
 * OpenSSL docs for this:
 *   https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/man3/CRYPTO_num_locks.html
 * gcrypt docs for this:
 *   https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gcrypt/Multi_002dThreading.html
 */
 
#define USE_OPENSSL /* or USE_GNUTLS accordingly */
 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>
 
#define NUMT 4
 
/* we have this global to let the callback get easy access to it */
static pthread_mutex_t *lockarray;
 
#ifdef USE_OPENSSL
#include <openssl/crypto.h>
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);
}
#endif
 
#ifdef USE_GNUTLS
#include <gcrypt.h>
#include <errno.h>
 
GCRY_THREAD_OPTION_PTHREAD_IMPL;
 
void init_locks(void)
{
  gcry_control(GCRYCTL_SET_THREAD_CBS);
}
 
#define kill_locks()
#endif
 
/* List of URLs to fetch.*/
const char * const urls[]= {
  "https://www.example.com/",
  "https://www2.example.com/",
  "https://www3.example.com/",
  "https://www4.example.com/",
};
 
static void *pull_one_url(void *url)
{
  CURL *curl;
 
  curl = curl_easy_init();
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
  /* this example does not verify the server's certificate, which means we
     might be downloading stuff from an impostor */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0L);
  curl_easy_perform(curl); /* ignores error */
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
 
  return NULL;
}
 
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  pthread_t tid[NUMT];
  int i;
  (void)argc; /* we do not use any arguments in this example */
  (void)argv;
 
  /* Must initialize libcurl before any threads are started */
  curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
 
  init_locks();
 
  for(i = 0; i< NUMT; i++) {
    int 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< NUMT; i++) {
    pthread_join(tid[i], NULL);
    fprintf(stderr, "Thread %d terminated\n", i);
  }
 
  kill_locks();
 
  return 0;
}

Notice

This source code example is simplified and ignores return codes and error checks to a large extent. We do this to highlight the libcurl function calls and related options and reduce unrelated code.

A real-world application will of course properly check every return value and exit correctly at the first serious error.