* topic/robin/ascii-escape-normalization:
Updating NEWS.
In bifs, change ODesc objects to have RAW_STYLE.
Changing what's escaped when printing.
Remove several BroString escaping methods that are no longer useful.
BIT-1333 #merged
- Backed out eTag changes. The real world is more complicated
than just using eTags to identify the same file.
- A bit of code simplication in the http base scripts.
- Test updates (more existing small problems were identified!).
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With this patch the model is:
- "print" cleans the data so that non-printable characters get
escaped. This is not necessarily reversible.
- to print in a reversible way, one can go through
escape_string(); this escapes backslashes as well to make the
decoding non-ambigious.
- Logging always escapes similar to escape_string(), making it
reversible.
Compared to master, we also change the escaping as follows:
- We now only escape with "\xXX", no more "^X" or "\0". Exception:
backslashes.
- We escape backlashes as "\\".
- There's no "alternative" output style anymore, i.e., fmt() '%A'
qualifier is gone.
Baselines in testing/btest are updated, external tests not yet.
Addresses BIT-1333.
- Re-arrange how some fa_file fields (e.g. source, connection info, mime
type) get updated/set for consistency.
- Add more robust mechanisms for flushing the reassembly buffer.
The goal being to report all gaps and deliveries to file analyzers
regardless of the state of the reassembly buffer at the time it has to
be flushed.
Singular CR or LF characters in multipart body content are no longer
converted to a full CRLF (thus corrupting the file) and it also no
longer considers the CRLF before the multipart boundary as part of the
content.
Addresses BIT-1235.
- Removed "binary" and "octet-stream" mime type detections. They don't
provide any more information than an uninitialized mime_type field
which implicitly means no magic signature matches and so the media
type is unknown to Bro.
- Slight change to "text/plain" signature. It's still not the most
accurate, which is reflected in its -20 strength value.
- The logic for adding file ids to {orig,resp}_fuids fields of
the http.log incorrectly depended on the state of
{orig,resp}_mime_types fields, so sometimes not all file ids
associated w/ the session were logged.
- The reassembly behavior can be modified per-file by enabling or
disabling the reassembler and/or modifying the size of the reassembly
buffer.
- Changed the file extraction analyzer to use the stream to avoid
issues with the chunk based approach not immediately triggering
the file_new event due to mime-type detection delay. Early chunks
frequently ended up lost before.
- Generally things are working now and I'd consider this in testing.
- Several places were just using old variable names or not loading
scripts correctly after they'd been renamed/moved.
- Revert/adjust a change in how HTTP file handles are generated that
broke partial content responses.
- Turn some libmagic builtin checks back on; seems some are actually
useful (e.g. text detection seems to be a builtin). The rule going
forward probably will be only to turn off a builtin if we confirm it
causes issues.
- Removed some tests that are redundant or not necessary anymore because
the generic file analysis tests cover them.
- A couple FTP tests still fail that I think need an actual solution via
script changes.
