Library to aid multi-part form data parsing

[Asmitha Karunanithi]

Hi Brad and Lei,

Are there any concerns about having libmimetic for multi-part parsing.
Please have a look at the below mail.

If there are any other suggestions, please post in here.

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 4:11 PM Asmitha Karunanithi <asmithakarun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> There was a requirement to parse multipart form data during file upload
> for the vendor-specific interface.
>
> The Curl command for multiple file upload will be:
>
> "curl -c cjar -b cjar -k -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" -H
> "X-Auth-Token: $bmc_token" -F 'sa1=@/path/to/file1' -F sa2=@/path/to/file2'
> -X POST https://$bmc/ibm/v1/files/partitions/"
>
> The above multipart request contains the file contents separated by a
> boundary and each file contains the filename, Content-Type and
> Content-Disposition.
>
> There were few considerations for this and after testing those libraries,
> the mimetic library seemed to fit for this purpose. Please refer to
> https://github.com/LadislavSopko/mimetic
>
> Only a part of code from this library is used for this purpose (which is
> under "mimetic" folder in this repo).
>
> Regression tests were conducted with that part of the library that is
> being used for multi-part parsing, as a part of which there was no memory
> leakage found after firing a large number of requests (2000 requests in
> this case).
>
> There was a difference of 71.68 KB in the openbmc flash size when this
> library is pulled. The mimetic shared object files are used from
> mimetic/codec/.libs.
>
> If there are other suggestions for the multi-part form data parsing or if
> there are suggestions for any other test that needs to be done, please post
> in the suggestions.
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> Asmitha Karunanithi
>


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Thanks & Regards,
Asmitha Karunanithi
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