.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. .. include:: ../../../../common.defs .. _developer-plugins-examples-denylist: Denylist Plugin **************** The sample denylisting plugin included in the Traffic Server SDK is ``denylist_1.cc``. This plugin checks every incoming HTTP client request against a list of listed web sites. If the client requests a listed site, then the plugin returns an ``Access forbidden`` message to the client. The flow of HTTP processing with the denylist plugin is illustrated in the figure titled :ref:`DenyListPlugin`. This example also contains a simple configuration management interface. It can read a list of sites from a file (``denylist.txt``) that can be updated by a Traffic Server administrator. When the configuration file is updated, Traffic Server sends an event to the plugin that wakes it up to do some work. Creating the Parent Continuation ================================ You create the static parent continuation in the mandatory ``TSPluginInit`` function. This parent continuation effectively **is** the plugin: the plugin executes only when this continuation receives an event from Traffic Server. Traffic Server passes the event as an argument to the continuation's handler function. When you create continuations, you must create and specify their handler functions. You can specify an optional mutex lock when you create continuations. The mutex lock protects data shared by asynchronous processes. Because Traffic Server has a multi-threaded design, race conditions can occur if several threads try to access the same continuation's data. Here is how the static parent continuation is created in ``denylist_1.cc``: .. code-block:: c void TSPluginInit (int argc, const char *argv[]) { // ... TSCont contp; contp = TSContCreate (denylist_plugin, nullptr); // ... } The handler function for the plugin is ``denylist_plugin``, and the mutex is null. The continuation handler function's job is to handle the events that are sent to it; accordingly, the ``denylist_plugin`` routine consists of a switch statement that covers each of the events that might be sent to it: .. code-block:: c namespace { DbgCtl dbg_ctl{"denylist_plugin"}; } static int denylist_plugin (TSCont contp, TSEvent event, void *edata) { TSHttpTxn txnp = static_cast(edata); switch (event) { case TS_EVENT_HTTP_OS_DNS: handle_dns (txnp, contp); return 0; case TS_EVENT_HTTP_SEND_RESPONSE_HDR: handle_response (txnp); return 0; default: Dbg (dbg_ctl, "This event was unexpected: %d", int(event) ); break; } return 0; } When you write handler functions, you have to anticipate any events that might be sent to the handler by hooks or by other functions. In the Denylist plugin, ``TS_EVENT_OS_DNS`` is sent because of the global hook established in ``TSPluginInit``, ``TS_EVENT_HTTP_SEND_RESPONSE_HDR`` is sent because the plugin contains a transaction hook (see :ref:`developer-plugins-examples-denylist-txn-hook`). It is good practice to have a default case in your switch statements. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 setting-a-global-hook.en accessing-the-transaction-being-processed.en setting-up-a-transaction-hook.en working-with-http-header-functions.en source-code.en