devver-right_http_connection 1.2.99

data/History.txt

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+== 0.0.1 2007-05-15
+* 1 major enhancement:
+  * Initial release
+
+== 0.1.2 2007-06-27
+
+* No major changes.
+
+== 0.1.3 2007-07-09
+
+* No change.
+
+== 0.1.4 2007-08-10
+
+* r1442, todd, 2007-08-07 15:45:24
+  * # 373, Add support in right_http_connection for bailing out to a block while
+    reading the HTTP response (to support GET streaming...)
+
+* r1411, todd, 2007-08-03 15:14:45
+  * # 373, Stream uploads (PUTs) if the source is a file, stream, or anything
+      read()-able
+
+== 1.1.0 2007-08-15
+Initial public release
+
+== 1.2.0 2007-10-05
+
+* r1867, konstantin, 2007-10-05 06:19:45
+  * # 220, (re)open connection to server if none exists or connection params 
+    have changed 
+
+== 1.2.1
+
+* r2648, konstantin, 01-24-08 11:12:00
+  * net_fix.rb moved from right_aws gem to fix the problem with uploading the streamable
+    objects to S3
+
+* r2764, konstantin, 02-08-08 00:05:00 +03:00
+  * "RightAws: incompatible Net::HTTP monkey-patch" exception is raised if our net_fix
+    patch was overriden (by attachment_fu for example, to avoid this load attachment_fu 
+    before loading the right_http_connection gem).
+
+== 1.2.2
+
+*  r3524, konstantin, 2008-04-17 11:35:42 +0400
+  * Fixed a problem with incorrect error handling (connection retries always failed).
+
+== 1.2.3
+
+- Added support for setting retry & timeout parameters in the constructor
+- Improve handling of data streams during upload: if there is a failure and a retry, reset
+  the seek pointer for the subsequent re-request
+
+== 1.2.4 
+
+*  r4984, konstantin, 2008-08-11 14:49:18 +0400
+  * fixed a bug: <NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
+                  The error occurred while evaluating nil.body_stream>
+

data/Manifest.txt

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+History.txt
+Manifest.txt
+README.txt
+Rakefile
+lib/net_fix.rb
+lib/right_http_connection.rb
+setup.rb

data/README.txt

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+RightScale::HttpConnection
+    by RightScale, Inc.
+    www.RightScale.com 
+
+== DESCRIPTION:
+
+Rightscale::HttpConnection is a robust HTTP/S library.  It implements a retry
+algorithm for low-level network errors.
+
+== FEATURES:
+
+- provides put/get streaming
+- does configurable retries on connect and read timeouts, DNS failures, etc.
+- HTTPS certificate checking
+  
+== SYNOPSIS:
+
+
+== REQUIREMENTS:
+
+- 2/11/08: If you use RightScale::HttpConnection in conjunction with attachment_fu, the
+  HttpConnection gem must be included (using the require statement) AFTER
+  attachment_fu.  
+  This is due to a conflict between the HttpConnection gem and another
+  gem required by attachment_fu.
+
+
+
+== INSTALL:
+
+sudo gem install right_http_connection
+
+== LICENSE:
+
+Copyright (c) 2007-2008 RightScale, Inc. 
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
+TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
+SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

data/Rakefile

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+require 'rubygems'
+require 'rake'
+require 'rake/clean'
+require 'rake/testtask'
+require 'rake/packagetask'
+require 'rake/gempackagetask'
+require 'rake/rdoctask'
+require 'rake/contrib/rubyforgepublisher'
+require 'fileutils'
+require 'hoe'
+include FileUtils
+require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'lib', 'right_http_connection')
+
+AUTHOR = 'RightScale'  # can also be an array of Authors
+EMAIL = "rubygems@rightscale.com"
+DESCRIPTION = "RightScale's robust HTTP/S connection module"
+GEM_NAME = 'devver-right_http_connection' # what ppl will type to install your gem
+RUBYFORGE_PROJECT = 'rightscale' # The unix name for your project
+HOMEPATH = "http://#{RUBYFORGE_PROJECT}.rubyforge.org"
+DOWNLOAD_PATH = "http://rubyforge.org/projects/#{RUBYFORGE_PROJECT}"
+
+NAME = "right_http_connection"
+REV = nil # UNCOMMENT IF REQUIRED: File.read(".svn/entries")[/committed-rev="(d+)"/, 1] rescue nil
+VERS = RightHttpConnection::VERSION::STRING + (REV ? ".#{REV}" : "")
+CLEAN.include ['**/.*.sw?', '*.gem', '.config', '**/.DS_Store']
+RDOC_OPTS = ['--quiet', '--title', 'right_http_connection documentation',
+    "--opname", "index.html",
+    "--line-numbers", 
+    "--main", "README",
+    "--inline-source"]
+
+# Suppress Hoe's self-inclusion as a dependency for our Gem. This also keeps
+# Rake & rubyforge out of the dependency list. Users must manually install
+# these gems to run tests, etc.
+# TRB 2/19/09: also do this for the extra_dev_deps array present in newer hoes.
+# Older versions of RubyGems will try to install developer-dependencies as
+# required runtime dependencies....
+class Hoe
+  def extra_deps
+    @extra_deps.reject do |x|
+      Array(x).first == 'hoe'
+    end
+  end
+  def extra_dev_deps
+    @extra_dev_deps.reject do |x|
+      Array(x).first == 'hoe'
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+# Generate all the Rake tasks
+# Run 'rake -T' to see list of generated tasks (from gem root directory)
+hoe = Hoe.new(GEM_NAME, VERS) do |p|
+  p.author = AUTHOR 
+  p.description = DESCRIPTION
+  p.email = EMAIL
+  p.summary = DESCRIPTION
+  p.url = HOMEPATH
+  p.rubyforge_name = RUBYFORGE_PROJECT if RUBYFORGE_PROJECT
+  p.test_globs = ["test/**/test_*.rb"]
+  p.clean_globs = CLEAN  #An array of file patterns to delete on clean.
+  p.remote_rdoc_dir = "right_http_gem_doc"
+  
+  # == Optional
+  p.changes = p.paragraphs_of("History.txt", 0..1).join("\n\n")
+  #p.extra_deps = []     # An array of rubygem dependencies [name, version], e.g. [ ['active_support', '>= 1.3.1'] ]
+  #p.spec_extras = {}    # A hash of extra values to set in the gemspec.
+end
+
+
+desc 'Generate website files'
+task :website_generate do
+  Dir['website/**/*.txt'].each do |txt|
+    sh %{ ruby scripts/txt2html #{txt} > #{txt.gsub(/txt$/,'html')} }
+  end
+end
+
+desc 'Upload website files to rubyforge'
+task :website_upload do
+  config = YAML.load(File.read(File.expand_path("~/.rubyforge/user-config.yml")))
+  host = "#{config["username"]}@rubyforge.org"
+  remote_dir = "/var/www/gforge-projects/#{RUBYFORGE_PROJECT}/"
+  # remote_dir = "/var/www/gforge-projects/#{RUBYFORGE_PROJECT}/#{GEM_NAME}"
+  local_dir = 'website'
+  sh %{rsync -av #{local_dir}/ #{host}:#{remote_dir}}
+end
+
+desc 'Generate and upload website files'
+task :website => [:website_generate, :website_upload]
+
+desc 'Release the website and new gem version'
+task :deploy => [:check_version, :website, :release]
+
+task :check_version do
+  unless ENV['VERSION']
+    puts 'Must pass a VERSION=x.y.z release version'
+    exit
+  end
+  unless ENV['VERSION'] == VERS
+    puts "Please update your version.rb to match the release version, currently #{VERS}"
+    exit
+  end
+end

data/lib/net_fix.rb

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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2008 RightScale Inc
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+# included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+# EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+#
+
+# Net::HTTP and Net::HTTPGenericRequest fixes to support 100-continue on 
+# POST and PUT. The request must have 'expect' field set to '100-continue'.
+
+
+module Net
+  
+  class BufferedIO #:nodoc:
+    # Monkey-patch Net::BufferedIO to read > 1024 bytes from the socket at a time
+
+    # Default size (in bytes) of the max read from a socket into the user space read buffers for socket IO
+    DEFAULT_SOCKET_READ_SIZE = 16*1024
+
+    @@socket_read_size = DEFAULT_SOCKET_READ_SIZE
+
+    def self.socket_read_size=(readsize)
+      if(readsize <= 0)
+        return
+      end
+      @@socket_read_size = readsize
+    end
+
+    def self.socket_read_size?()
+      @@socket_read_size
+    end
+
+    def rbuf_fill
+      timeout(@read_timeout) {
+        @rbuf << @io.sysread(@@socket_read_size)
+      }
+    end
+  end
+
+
+  #-- Net::HTTPGenericRequest --
+
+  class HTTPGenericRequest
+    # Monkey-patch Net::HTTPGenericRequest to read > 1024 bytes from the local data
+    # source at a time (used in streaming PUTs)
+
+    # Default size (in bytes) of the max read from a local source (File, String,
+    # etc.) to the user space write buffers for socket IO.
+    DEFAULT_LOCAL_READ_SIZE = 16*1024
+
+    @@local_read_size = DEFAULT_LOCAL_READ_SIZE
+
+    def self.local_read_size=(readsize)
+      if(readsize <= 0)
+        return
+      end
+      @@local_read_size = readsize
+    end
+
+    def self.local_read_size?()
+      @@local_read_size
+    end
+
+    def exec(sock, ver, path, send_only=nil)   #:nodoc: internal use only
+      if @body
+        send_request_with_body sock, ver, path, @body, send_only
+      elsif @body_stream
+        send_request_with_body_stream sock, ver, path, @body_stream, send_only
+      else
+        write_header(sock, ver, path)
+      end
+    end
+
+    private
+
+    def send_request_with_body(sock, ver, path, body, send_only=nil)
+      self.content_length = body.length
+      delete 'Transfer-Encoding'
+      supply_default_content_type
+      write_header(sock, ver, path) unless send_only == :body
+      sock.write(body)              unless send_only == :header
+    end
+
+    def send_request_with_body_stream(sock, ver, path, f, send_only=nil)
+      unless content_length() or chunked?
+        raise ArgumentError,
+            "Content-Length not given and Transfer-Encoding is not `chunked'"
+      end
+      supply_default_content_type
+      write_header(sock, ver, path) unless send_only == :body
+      unless send_only == :header
+        if chunked?
+          while s = f.read(@@local_read_size)
+            sock.write(sprintf("%x\r\n", s.length) << s << "\r\n")
+          end
+          sock.write "0\r\n\r\n"
+        else
+          while s = f.read(@@local_read_size)
+            sock.write s
+          end
+        end
+      end
+    end    
+  end
+
+
+  #-- Net::HTTP --
+  
+  class HTTP
+    def request(req, body = nil, &block)  # :yield: +response+
+      unless started?
+        start {
+          req['connection'] ||= 'close'
+          return request(req, body, &block)
+        }
+      end
+      if proxy_user()
+        unless use_ssl?
+          req.proxy_basic_auth proxy_user(), proxy_pass()
+        end
+      end
+      # set body
+      req.set_body_internal body
+      begin_transport req
+        # if we expect 100-continue then send a header first
+        send_only = ((req.is_a?(Post)||req.is_a?(Put)) && (req['expect']=='100-continue')) ? :header : nil
+        req.exec @socket, @curr_http_version, edit_path(req.path), send_only
+        begin
+          res = HTTPResponse.read_new(@socket)
+          # if we expected 100-continue then send a body
+          if res.is_a?(HTTPContinue) && send_only && req['content-length'].to_i > 0
+            req.exec @socket, @curr_http_version, edit_path(req.path), :body
+          end
+        end while res.kind_of?(HTTPContinue)
+        res.reading_body(@socket, req.response_body_permitted?) {
+          yield res if block_given?
+        }
+      end_transport req, res
+      res
+    end
+  end
+
+end

data/lib/right_http_connection.rb

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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2007-2008 RightScale Inc
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+# included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+# EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+
+require "net/https"
+require "uri"
+require "time"
+require "logger"
+
+$:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__))
+require "net_fix"
+
+
+module RightHttpConnection #:nodoc:
+  module VERSION #:nodoc:
+    MAJOR = 1
+    MINOR = 2
+    TINY  = 99 #4
+
+    STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join('.')
+  end
+end
+
+
+module Rightscale
+
+=begin rdoc
+HttpConnection maintains a persistent HTTP connection to a remote
+server.  Each instance maintains its own unique connection to the
+HTTP server.  HttpConnection makes a best effort to receive a proper
+HTTP response from the server, although it does not guarantee that
+this response contains a HTTP Success code.
+
+On low-level errors (TCP/IP errors) HttpConnection invokes a reconnect
+and retry algorithm.  Note that although each HttpConnection object
+has its own connection to the HTTP server, error handling is shared
+across all connections to a server.  For example, if there are three
+connections to www.somehttpserver.com, a timeout error on one of those
+connections will cause all three connections to break and reconnect.
+A connection will not break and reconnect, however, unless a request
+becomes active on it within a certain amount of time after the error
+(as specified by HTTP_CONNECTION_RETRY_DELAY).  An idle connection will not
+break even if other connections to the same server experience errors.
+
+A HttpConnection will retry a request a certain number of times (as
+defined by HTTP_CONNNECTION_RETRY_COUNT).  If all the retries fail,
+an exception is thrown and all HttpConnections associated with a
+server enter a probationary period defined by HTTP_CONNECTION_RETRY_DELAY.
+If the user makes a new request subsequent to entering probation,
+the request will fail immediately with the same exception thrown
+on probation entry.  This is so that if the HTTP server has gone
+down, not every subsequent request must wait for a connect timeout
+before failing.  After the probation period expires, the internal
+state of the HttpConnection is reset and subsequent requests have
+the full number of potential reconnects and retries available to
+them.
+=end
+
+  class HttpConnection
+
+    # Number of times to retry the request after encountering the first error
+    HTTP_CONNECTION_RETRY_COUNT   = 3
+    # Throw a Timeout::Error if a connection isn't established within this number of seconds
+    HTTP_CONNECTION_OPEN_TIMEOUT  = 5
+    # Throw a Timeout::Error if no data have been read on this connnection within this number of seconds
+    HTTP_CONNECTION_READ_TIMEOUT  = 120
+    # Length of the post-error probationary period during which all requests will fail
+    HTTP_CONNECTION_RETRY_DELAY   = 15
+
+    # Location of the system CA certificates file on Debian/Ubuntu systems, as
+    # generated by the ca-certificates package.
+    DEBIAN_CA_FILE = '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
+
+    #--------------------
+    # class methods
+    #--------------------
+    #
+    @@params = {}
+    @@params[:http_connection_retry_count]  = HTTP_CONNECTION_RETRY_COUNT
+    @@params[:http_connection_open_timeout] = HTTP_CONNECTION_OPEN_TIMEOUT
+    @@params[:http_connection_read_timeout] = HTTP_CONNECTION_READ_TIMEOUT
+    @@params[:http_connection_retry_delay]  = HTTP_CONNECTION_RETRY_DELAY
+
+    # Query the global (class-level) parameters:
+    #
+    #  :user_agent => 'www.HostName.com'    # String to report as HTTP User agent
+    #  :ca_file    => 'path_to_file'        # Path to a CA certification file in
+    #                                       # PEM format. The file can contain
+    #                                       # several CA certificates.  If this
+    #                                       # parameter isn't set,
+    #                                       # HttpConnection will check for a
+    #                                       # system CA file.  If no CA file is
+    #                                       # found, HTTPS certs won't be
+    #                                       # verified.
+    #                                       #
+    #                                       # This parameter may be overridden
+    #                                       # with the RIGHT_HTTP_CA_FILE
+    #                                       # environment variable.
+    #  :logger     => Logger object         # If omitted, HttpConnection logs to STDOUT
+    #  :exception  => Exception to raise    # The type of exception to raise
+    #                                       # if a request repeatedly fails. RuntimeError is raised if this parameter is omitted.
+    #  :http_connection_retry_count         # by default == Rightscale::HttpConnection::HTTP_CONNECTION_RETRY_COUNT
+    #  :http_connection_open_timeout        # by default == Rightscale::HttpConnection::HTTP_CONNECTION_OPEN_TIMEOUT
+    #  :http_connection_read_timeout        # by default == Rightscale::HttpConnection::HTTP_CONNECTION_READ_TIMEOUT
+    #  :http_connection_retry_delay         # by default == Rightscale::HttpConnection::HTTP_CONNECTION_RETRY_DELAY
+    def self.params
+      @@params
+    end
+
+    # Set the global (class-level) parameters
+    def self.params=(params)
+      @@params = params
+    end
+
+    #------------------
+    # instance methods
+    #------------------
+    attr_accessor :http
+    attr_accessor :server
+    attr_accessor :params      # see @@params
+    attr_accessor :logger
+
+     # Params hash:
+     #  :user_agent => 'www.HostName.com'    # String to report as HTTP User agent
+     #  :ca_file    => 'path_to_file'        # A path of a CA certification file in PEM format. The file can contain several CA certificates.
+     #  :logger     => Logger object         # If omitted, HttpConnection logs to STDOUT
+     #  :exception  => Exception to raise    # The type of exception to raise if a request repeatedly fails. RuntimeError is raised if this parameter is omitted.
+     #  :http_connection_retry_count         # by default == Rightscale::HttpConnection.params[:http_connection_retry_count]
+     #  :http_connection_open_timeout        # by default == Rightscale::HttpConnection.params[:http_connection_open_timeout]
+     #  :http_connection_read_timeout        # by default == Rightscale::HttpConnection.params[:http_connection_read_timeout]
+     #  :http_connection_retry_delay         # by default == Rightscale::HttpConnection.params[:http_connection_retry_delay]
+     #
+    def initialize(params={})
+      @params = params
+      @params[:http_connection_retry_count]  ||= @@params[:http_connection_retry_count]
+      @params[:http_connection_open_timeout] ||= @@params[:http_connection_open_timeout]
+      @params[:http_connection_read_timeout] ||= @@params[:http_connection_read_timeout]
+      @params[:http_connection_retry_delay]  ||= @@params[:http_connection_retry_delay]
+      @http   = nil
+      @server = nil
+      @logger = get_param(:logger) ||
+                (RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER if defined?(RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER)) ||
+                Logger.new(STDOUT)
+    end
+
+    def get_param(name)
+      @params[name] || @@params[name]
+    end
+
+    # Query for the maximum size (in bytes) of a single read from the underlying
+    # socket.  For bulk transfer, especially over fast links, this is value is
+    # critical to performance.
+    def socket_read_size?
+      Net::BufferedIO.socket_read_size?
+    end
+
+    # Set the maximum size (in bytes) of a single read from the underlying
+    # socket.  For bulk transfer, especially over fast links, this is value is
+    # critical to performance.
+    def socket_read_size=(newsize)
+      Net::BufferedIO.socket_read_size=(newsize)
+    end
+
+    # Query for the maximum size (in bytes) of a single read from local data
+    # sources like files.  This is important, for example, in a streaming PUT of a
+    # large buffer.
+    def local_read_size?
+      Net::HTTPGenericRequest.local_read_size?
+    end
+
+    # Set the maximum size (in bytes) of a single read from local data
+    # sources like files.  This can be used to tune the performance of, for example,  a streaming PUT of a
+    # large buffer.
+    def local_read_size=(newsize)
+      Net::HTTPGenericRequest.local_read_size=(newsize)
+    end
+
+  private
+    #--------------
+    # Retry state - Keep track of errors on a per-server basis
+    #--------------
+    @@state = {}  # retry state indexed by server: consecutive error count, error time, and error
+    @@eof   = {}
+
+    # number of consecutive errors seen for server, 0 all is ok
+    def error_count
+      @@state[@server] ? @@state[@server][:count] : 0
+    end
+
+    # time of last error for server, nil if all is ok
+    def error_time
+      @@state[@server] && @@state[@server][:time]
+    end
+
+    # message for last error for server, "" if all is ok
+    def error_message
+      @@state[@server] ? @@state[@server][:message] : ""
+    end
+
+    # add an error for a server
+    def error_add(message)
+      @@state[@server] = { :count => error_count+1, :time => Time.now, :message => message }
+    end
+
+    # reset the error state for a server (i.e. a request succeeded)
+    def error_reset
+      @@state.delete(@server)
+    end
+
+    # Error message stuff...
+    def banana_message
+      return "#{@server} temporarily unavailable: (#{error_message})"
+    end
+
+    def err_header
+      return "#{self.class.name} :"
+    end
+
+      # Adds new EOF timestamp.
+      # Returns the number of seconds to wait before new conection retry:
+      #  0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8
+    def add_eof
+      (@@eof[@server] ||= []).unshift Time.now
+      0.25 * 2 ** @@eof[@server].size
+    end
+
+      # Returns first EOF timestamp or nul if have no EOFs being tracked.
+    def eof_time
+      @@eof[@server] && @@eof[@server].last
+    end
+
+      # Returns true if we are receiving EOFs during last @params[:http_connection_retry_delay] seconds
+      # and there were no successful response from server
+    def raise_on_eof_exception?
+      @@eof[@server].blank? ? false : ( (Time.now.to_i-@params[:http_connection_retry_delay]) > @@eof[@server].last.to_i )
+    end
+
+      # Reset a list of EOFs for this server.
+      # This is being called when we have got an successful response from server.
+    def eof_reset
+      @@eof.delete(@server)
+    end
+
+    # Detects if an object is 'streamable' - can we read from it, and can we know the size?
+    def setup_streaming(request)
+      if(request.body && request.body.respond_to?(:read))
+        body = request.body
+        request.content_length = body.respond_to?(:lstat) ? body.lstat.size : body.size
+        request.body_stream = request.body
+        true
+      end
+    end
+
+    def get_fileptr_offset(request_params)
+      request_params[:request].body.pos
+    rescue Exception => e
+      # Probably caught this because the body doesn't support the pos() method, like if it is a socket.
+      # Just return 0 and get on with life.
+      0
+    end
+
+    def reset_fileptr_offset(request, offset = 0)
+      if(request.body_stream && request.body_stream.respond_to?(:pos))
+        begin
+          request.body_stream.pos = offset
+        rescue Exception => e
+          @logger.warn("Failed file pointer reset; aborting HTTP retries." +
+                             " -- #{err_header} #{e.inspect}")
+          raise e
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
+    # Start a fresh connection. The object closes any existing connection and
+    # opens a new one.
+    def start(request_params)
+      # close the previous if exists
+      finish
+      # create new connection
+      @server   = request_params[:server]
+      @port     = request_params[:port]
+      @protocol = request_params[:protocol]
+
+      @logger.info("Opening new #{@protocol.upcase} connection to #@server:#@port")
+#      raise 1/0
+
+      @http = Net::HTTP.new(@server, @port)
+      @http.open_timeout = @params[:http_connection_open_timeout]
+      @http.read_timeout = @params[:http_connection_read_timeout]
+
+      if @protocol == 'https'
+        verifyCallbackProc = Proc.new{ |ok, x509_store_ctx|
+          code = x509_store_ctx.error
+          msg = x509_store_ctx.error_string
+            #debugger
+          @logger.warn("##### #{@server} certificate verify failed: #{msg}") unless code == 0
+          true
+        }
+        @http.use_ssl = true
+        ca_file = get_ca_file
+        if ca_file
+          @http.verify_mode     = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER
+          @http.verify_callback = verifyCallbackProc
+          @http.ca_file         = ca_file
+        end
+      end
+      # open connection
+      @http.start
+    end
+
+  public
+
+=begin rdoc
+    Send HTTP request to server
+
+     request_params hash:
+     :server   => 'www.HostName.com'   # Hostname or IP address of HTTP server
+     :port     => '80'                 # Port of HTTP server
+     :protocol => 'https'              # http and https are supported on any port
+     :request  => 'requeststring'      # Fully-formed HTTP request to make
+
+    Raises RuntimeError, Interrupt, and params[:exception] (if specified in new).
+
+=end
+    def request(request_params, &block)
+      # We save the offset here so that if we need to retry, we can return the file pointer to its initial position
+      mypos = get_fileptr_offset(request_params)
+      loop do
+        request_params[:protocol] ||= (request_params[:port] == 443 ? 'https' : 'http')
+        # (re)open connection to server if none exists or params has changed
+        same_server_as_before = @server   == request_params[:server] &&
+                                @port     == request_params[:port]   &&
+                                @protocol == request_params[:protocol]
+
+        # if we are inside a delay between retries: no requests this time!
+        # (skip this step if the endpoint has changed)
+        if error_count > @params[:http_connection_retry_count] &&
+           error_time + @params[:http_connection_retry_delay] > Time.now &&
+           same_server_as_before
+
+          # store the message (otherwise it will be lost after error_reset and
+          # we will raise an exception with an empty text)
+          banana_message_text = banana_message
+          @logger.warn("#{err_header} re-raising same error: #{banana_message_text} " +
+                      "-- error count: #{error_count}, error age: #{Time.now.to_i - error_time.to_i}")
+          exception = get_param(:exception) || RuntimeError
+          raise exception.new(banana_message_text)
+        end
+
+        # try to connect server(if connection does not exist) and get response data
+        begin
+          request = request_params[:request]
+          request['User-Agent'] = get_param(:user_agent) || ''
+          unless @http          &&
+                 @http.started? &&
+                 same_server_as_before
+            start(request_params)
+          end
+
+          # Detect if the body is a streamable object like a file or socket.  If so, stream that
+          # bad boy.
+          setup_streaming(request)
+          response = @http.request(request, &block)
+
+          error_reset
+          eof_reset
+          return response
+
+        # We treat EOF errors and the timeout/network errors differently.  Both
+        # are tracked in different statistics blocks.  Note below that EOF
+        # errors will sleep for a certain (exponentially increasing) period.
+        # Other errors don't sleep because there is already an inherent delay
+        # in them; connect and read timeouts (for example) have already
+        # 'slept'.  It is still not clear which way we should treat errors
+        # like RST and resolution failures.  For now, there is no additional
+        # delay for these errors although this may change in the future.
+
+        # EOFError means the server closed the connection on us.
+        rescue EOFError => e
+          @logger.debug("#{err_header} server #{@server} closed connection")
+          @http = nil
+
+            # if we have waited long enough - raise an exception...
+          if raise_on_eof_exception?
+            exception = get_param(:exception) || RuntimeError
+            @logger.warn("#{err_header} raising #{exception} due to permanent EOF being received from #{@server}, error age: #{Time.now.to_i - eof_time.to_i}")
+            raise exception.new("Permanent EOF is being received from #{@server}.")
+          else
+              # ... else just sleep a bit before new retry
+            sleep(add_eof)
+            # We will be retrying the request, so reset the file pointer
+            reset_fileptr_offset(request, mypos)
+          end
+        rescue Exception => e  # See comment at bottom for the list of errors seen...
+          @http = nil
+          # if ctrl+c is pressed - we have to reraise exception to terminate proggy
+          if e.is_a?(Interrupt) && !( e.is_a?(Errno::ETIMEDOUT) || e.is_a?(Timeout::Error))
+            @logger.debug( "#{err_header} request to server #{@server} interrupted by ctrl-c")
+            raise
+          elsif e.is_a?(ArgumentError) && e.message.include?('wrong number of arguments (5 for 4)')
+            # seems our net_fix patch was overriden...
+            exception = get_param(:exception) || RuntimeError
+            raise exception.new('incompatible Net::HTTP monkey-patch')
+          end
+          # oops - we got a banana: log it
+          error_add(e.message)
+          @logger.warn("#{err_header} request failure count: #{error_count}, exception: #{e.inspect}")
+
+          # We will be retrying the request, so reset the file pointer
+          reset_fileptr_offset(request, mypos)
+
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
+    def finish(reason = '')
+      if @http && @http.started?
+        reason = ", reason: '#{reason}'" unless reason.blank?
+        @logger.info("Closing #{@http.use_ssl? ? 'HTTPS' : 'HTTP'} connection to #{@http.address}:#{@http.port}#{reason}")
+        @http.finish
+      end
+    end
+
+    def get_ca_file
+      get_ca_file_from_env || get_param(:ca_file) || get_system_ca_file
+    end
+
+    def get_ca_file_from_env
+      ENV['RIGHT_HTTP_CA_FILE']
+    end
+
+    def get_system_ca_file
+      system_ca_file = DEBIAN_CA_FILE
+      if File.readable?(system_ca_file)
+        system_ca_file
+      else
+        nil
+      end
+    end
+
+  # Errors received during testing:
+  #
+  #  #<Timeout::Error: execution expired>
+  #  #<Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Connection timed out - connect(2)>
+  #  #<SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known>
+  #  #<SocketError: getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution>
+  #  #<EOFError: end of file reached>
+  #  #<Errno::ECONNRESET: Connection reset by peer>
+  #  #<OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_write:: bad write retry>
+  end
+
+end
+