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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 3.0.0, Package name: py311-waitress-3.0.0, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Waitress is meant to be a production-quality pure-Python WSGI server
with very acceptable performance. It has no dependencies except
ones which live in the Python standard library. It supports HTTP/1.0
and HTTP/1.1.


Required to run:
[devel/py-setuptools] [lang/python37]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

Filesize: 175.188 KB

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   2024-01-31 11:46:04 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
py-waitress: Fix PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCOMPATIBLE.
   2024-01-26 14:48:21 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
py-waitress: updated to 2.1.2

2.1.2
-----

Bugfix
~~~~~~

- When expose_tracebacks is enabled waitress would fail to properly encode
  unicode thereby causing another error during error handling. See
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/378

- Header length checking had a calculation that was done incorrectly when the
  data was received across multple socket reads. This calculation has been
  corrected, and no longer will Waitress send back a 413 Request Entity Too
  Large. See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/376

Security Bugfix
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- in 2.1.0 a new feature was introduced that allowed the WSGI thread to start
  sending data to the socket. However this introduced a race condition whereby
  a socket may be closed in the sending thread while the main thread is about
  to call select() therey causing the entire application to be taken down.
  Waitress will no longer close the socket in the WSGI thread, instead waking
  up the main thread to cleanup. See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/377

2.1.1
-----

Security Bugfix
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Waitress now validates that chunked encoding extensions are valid, and don't
  contain invalid characters that are not allowed. They are still skipped/not
  processed, but if they contain invalid data we no longer continue in and
  return a 400 Bad Request. This stops potential HTTP desync/HTTP request
  smuggling. Thanks to Zhang Zeyu for reporting this issue. See
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-4f7p-27jc-3c36

- Waitress now validates that the chunk length is only valid hex digits when
  parsing chunked encoding, and values such as ``0x01`` and ``+01`` are no
  longer supported. This stops potential HTTP desync/HTTP request smuggling.
  Thanks to Zhang Zeyu for reporting this issue. See
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-4f7p-27jc-3c36

- Waitress now validates that the Content-Length sent by a remote contains only
  digits in accordance with RFC7230 and will return a 400 Bad Request when the
  Content-Length header contains invalid data, such as ``+10`` which would
  previously get parsed as ``10`` and accepted. This stops potential HTTP
  desync/HTTP request smuggling Thanks to Zhang Zeyu for reporting this issue. See
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-4f7p-27jc-3c36

2.1.0
-----

Python Version Support
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Python 3.6 is no longer supported by Waitress

- Python 3.10 is fully supported by Waitress

Bugfix
~~~~~~

- ``wsgi.file_wrapper`` now sets the ``seekable``, ``seek``, and ``tell``
  attributes from the underlying file if the underlying file is seekable. This
  allows WSGI middleware to implement things like range requests for example

  See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/359 and
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/363

- In Python 3 ``OSError`` is no longer subscriptable, this caused failures on
  Windows attempting to loop to find an socket that would work for use in the
  trigger.

  See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/361

- Fixed an issue whereby ``BytesIO`` objects were not properly closed, and
  thereby would not get cleaned up until garbage collection would get around to
  it.

  This led to potential for random memory spikes/memory issues, see
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/358 and
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/357 .

  With thanks to Florian Schulze for testing/vaidating this fix!

Features
~~~~~~~~

- When the WSGI app starts sending data to the output buffer, we now attempt to
  send data directly to the socket. This avoids needing to wake up the main
  thread to start sending data. Allowing faster transmission of the first byte.
  See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/364

  With thanks to Michael Merickel for being a great rubber ducky!

- Add REQUEST_URI to the WSGI environment.

  REQUEST_URI is similar to ``request_uri`` in nginx. It is a string that
  contains the request path before separating the query string and
  decoding ``%``-escaped characters.
   2022-08-24 11:25:57 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (17)
Log message:
*: use coverage from versioned_dependencies.mk
   2022-01-05 16:41:32 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (289)
Log message:
python: egg.mk: add USE_PKG_RESOURCES flag

This flag should be set for packages that import pkg_resources
and thus need setuptools after the build step.

Set this flag for packages that need it and bump PKGREVISION.
   2022-01-04 21:55:40 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1595)
Log message:
*: bump PKGREVISION for egg.mk users

They now have a tool dependency on py-setuptools instead of a DEPENDS
   2021-10-26 13:31:15 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (1030)
Log message:
www: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes

Not committed (merge conflicts):
www/nghttp2/distinfo

Unfetchable distfiles (almost certainly fetched conditionally...):
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo array-var-nginx-module-0.05.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo echo-nginx-module-0.62.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo encrypted-session-nginx-module-0.08.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo form-input-nginx-module-0.12.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo headers-more-nginx-module-0.33.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo lua-nginx-module-0.10.19.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo naxsi-1.3.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo nginx-dav-ext-module-3.0.0.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo nginx-rtmp-module-1.2.2.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo nginx_http_push_module-1.2.10.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo ngx_cache_purge-2.5.1.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo ngx_devel_kit-0.3.1.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo ngx_http_geoip2_module-3.3.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo njs-0.5.0.tar.gz
./www/nginx-devel/distinfo set-misc-nginx-module-0.32.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo array-var-nginx-module-0.05.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo echo-nginx-module-0.62.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo encrypted-session-nginx-module-0.08.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo form-input-nginx-module-0.12.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo headers-more-nginx-module-0.33.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo lua-nginx-module-0.10.19.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo naxsi-1.3.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo nginx-dav-ext-module-3.0.0.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo nginx-rtmp-module-1.2.2.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo nginx_http_push_module-1.2.10.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo ngx_cache_purge-2.5.1.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo ngx_devel_kit-0.3.1.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo ngx_http_geoip2_module-3.3.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo njs-0.5.0.tar.gz
./www/nginx/distinfo set-misc-nginx-module-0.32.tar.gz
   2021-10-07 17:09:00 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (1033)
Log message:
www: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2020-05-13 16:43:28 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
py-waitress: updated to 1.4.3

1.4.3 (2020-02-02)
------------------

Security Fixes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- In Waitress version 1.4.2 a new regular expression was added to validate the
  headers that Waitress receives to make sure that it matches RFC7230.
  Unfortunately the regular expression was written in a way that with invalid
  input it leads to catastrophic backtracking which allows for a Denial of
  Service and CPU usage going to a 100%.

  This was reported by Fil Zembowicz to the Pylons Project. Please see
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-73m2-3pwg-5fgc
  for more information.

1.4.2 (2020-01-02)
------------------

Security Fixes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- This is a follow-up to the fix introduced in 1.4.1 to tighten up the way
  Waitress strips whitespace from header values. This makes sure Waitress won't
  accidentally treat non-printable characters as whitespace and lead to a
  potental HTTP request smuggling/splitting security issue.

  Thanks to ZeddYu Lu for the extra test cases.

  Please see the security advisory for more information:
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-m5ff-3wj3-8ph4

  CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16789

Bugfixes
~~~~~~~~

- Updated the regex used to validate header-field content to match the errata
  that was published for RFC7230.

  See: https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7230&eid=4189

1.4.1 (2019-12-24)
------------------

Security Fixes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Waitress did not properly validate that the HTTP headers it received were
  properly formed, thereby potentially allowing a front-end server to treat a
  request different from Waitress. This could lead to HTTP request
  smuggling/splitting.

  Please see the security advisory for more information:
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-m5ff-3wj3-8ph4

  CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16789

1.4.0 (2019-12-20)
------------------

Bugfixes
~~~~~~~~

- Waitress used to slam the door shut on HTTP pipelined requests without
  setting the ``Connection: close`` header as appropriate in the response. This
  is of course not very friendly. Waitress now explicitly sets the header when
  responding with an internally generated error such as 400 Bad Request or 500
  Internal Server Error to notify the remote client that it will be closing the
  connection after the response is sent.

- Waitress no longer allows any spaces to exist between the header field-name
  and the colon. While waitress did not strip the space and thereby was not
  vulnerable to any potential header field-name confusion, it should have sent
  back a 400 Bad Request. See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/273

Security Fixes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Waitress implemented a "MAY" part of the RFC7230
  (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-3.5) which states:

      Although the line terminator for the start-line and header fields is
      the sequence CRLF, a recipient MAY recognize a single LF as a line
      terminator and ignore any preceding CR.

  Unfortunately if a front-end server does not parse header fields with an LF
  the same way as it does those with a CRLF it can lead to the front-end and
  the back-end server parsing the same HTTP message in two different ways. This
  can lead to a potential for HTTP request smuggling/splitting whereby Waitress
  may see two requests while the front-end server only sees a single HTTP
  message.

  For more information I can highly recommend the blog post by ZeddYu Lu
  https://blog.zeddyu.info/2019/12/08/HTTP-Smuggling-en/

  Please see the security advisory for more information:
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-pg36-wpm5-g57p

  CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16785

- Waitress used to treat LF the same as CRLF in ``Transfer-Encoding: chunked``
  requests, while the maintainer doesn't believe this could lead to a security
  issue, this is no longer supported and all chunks are now validated to be
  properly framed with CRLF as required by RFC7230.

- Waitress now validates that the ``Transfer-Encoding`` header contains only
  transfer codes that it is able to decode. At the moment that includes the
  only valid header value being ``chunked``.

  That means that if the following header is sent:

  ``Transfer-Encoding: gzip, chunked``

  Waitress will send back a 501 Not Implemented with an error message stating
  as such, as while Waitress supports ``chunked`` encoding it does not support
  ``gzip`` and it is unable to pass that to the underlying WSGI environment
  correctly.

  Waitress DOES NOT implement support for ``Transfer-Encoding: identity``
  eventhough ``identity`` was valid in RFC2616, it was removed in RFC7230.
  Please update your clients to remove the ``Transfer-Encoding`` header if the
  only transfer coding is ``identity`` or update your client to use
  ``Transfer-Encoding: chunked`` instead of ``Transfer-Encoding: identity,
  chunked``.

  Please see the security advisory for more information:
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-g2xc-35jw-c63p

  CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16786

- While validating the ``Transfer-Encoding`` header, Waitress now properly
  handles line-folded ``Transfer-Encoding`` headers or those that contain
  multiple comma seperated values. This closes a potential issue where a
  front-end server may treat the request as being a chunked request (and thus
  ignoring the Content-Length) and Waitress using the Content-Length as it was
  looking for the single value ``chunked`` and did not support comma seperated
  values.

- Waitress used to explicitly set the Content-Length header to 0 if it was
  unable to parse it as an integer (for example if the Content-Length header
  was sent twice (and thus folded together), or was invalid) thereby allowing
  for a potential request to be split and treated as two requests by HTTP
  pipelining support in Waitress. If Waitress is now unable to parse the
  Content-Length header, a 400 Bad Request is sent back to the client.

  Please see the security advisory for more information:
  https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-4ppp-gpcr-7qf6