notify: Webhook endpoints can fail, but we must start the server. (#4060)

Ignore any network errors when registering a webhook
notifier during Minio startup sequence. This way server
can be started even if the webhook endpoint is not available
and unreachable.

cmd/event-notifier.go

@@ -645,7 +645,6 @@ func loadAllQueueTargets() (map[string]*logrus.Logger, error) {
 		if !webhookN.Enable {
 			continue
 		}
-
 		if _, err := addQueueTarget(queueTargets, accountID, queueTypeWebhook, newWebhookNotify); err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}

cmd/notify-webhook.go

@@ -17,12 +17,14 @@
 package cmd
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"crypto/tls"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
@@ -48,33 +50,126 @@ type httpConn struct {
 	Endpoint string
 }
 
-// Lookup endpoint address by successfully dialing.
+// List of success status.
-func lookupEndpoint(u *url.URL) error {
+var successStatus = []int{
-	dialer := &net.Dialer{
+	http.StatusOK,
-		Timeout:   300 * time.Millisecond,
+	http.StatusAccepted,
-		KeepAlive: 300 * time.Millisecond,
+	http.StatusContinue,
+	http.StatusNoContent,
+	http.StatusPartialContent,
+}
+
+// isNetErrorIgnored - is network error ignored.
+func isNetErrorIgnored(err error) bool {
+	if err == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers") {
+		return true
 	}
-	nconn, err := dialer.Dial("tcp", canonicalAddr(u))
+	switch err.(type) {
+	case net.Error:
+		switch err.(type) {
+		case *net.DNSError, *net.OpError, net.UnknownNetworkError:
+			return true
+		case *url.Error:
+			// For a URL error, where it replies back "connection closed"
+			// retry again.
+			if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "Connection closed by foreign host") {
+				return true
+			}
+		default:
+			if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "net/http: TLS handshake timeout") {
+				// If error is - tlsHandshakeTimeoutError, retry.
+				return true
+			} else if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "i/o timeout") {
+				// If error is - tcp timeoutError, retry.
+				return true
+			} else if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "connection timed out") {
+				// If err is a net.Dial timeout, retry.
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// Lookup endpoint address by successfully POSTting
+// a JSON which would send out minio release.
+func lookupEndpoint(urlStr string) error {
+	minioRelease := bytes.NewReader([]byte(ReleaseTag))
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", urlStr, minioRelease)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	return nconn.Close()
+
+	client := &http.Client{
+		Timeout: 1 * time.Second,
+		Transport: &http.Transport{
+			// need to close connection after usage.
+			DisableKeepAlives: true,
+		},
+	}
+
+	// Set content-type.
+	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+
+	// Set proper server user-agent.
+	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", globalServerUserAgent)
+
+	// Retry if the request needs to be re-directed.
+	// This code is necessary since Go 1.7.x do not
+	// support retrying for http 307 for POST operation.
+	// https://github.com/golang/go/issues/7912
+	//
+	// FIXME: Remove this when we move to Go 1.8.
+	for {
+		resp, derr := client.Do(req)
+		if derr != nil {
+			if isNetErrorIgnored(derr) {
+				return nil
+			}
+			return derr
+		}
+		if resp == nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("No response from server to download URL %s", urlStr)
+		}
+		resp.Body.Close()
+
+		// Redo the request with the new redirect url if http 307
+		// is returned, quit the loop otherwise
+		if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusTemporaryRedirect {
+			newURL, uerr := url.Parse(resp.Header.Get("Location"))
+			if uerr != nil {
+				return uerr
+			}
+			req.URL = newURL
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// For any known successful http status, return quickly.
+		for _, httpStatus := range successStatus {
+			if httpStatus == resp.StatusCode {
+				return nil
+			}
+		}
+
+		err = fmt.Errorf("Unexpected response from webhook server %s: (%s)", urlStr, resp.Status)
+		break
+	}
+
+	// Succes.
+	return err
 }
 
 // Initializes new webhook logrus notifier.
 func newWebhookNotify(accountID string) (*logrus.Logger, error) {
 	rNotify := serverConfig.Notify.GetWebhookByID(accountID)
-
 	if rNotify.Endpoint == "" {
 		return nil, errInvalidArgument
 	}
 
-	u, err := url.Parse(rNotify.Endpoint)
+	if err := lookupEndpoint(rNotify.Endpoint); err != nil {
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	if err = lookupEndpoint(u); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 

cmd/notify-webhook_test.go

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func TestNewWebHookNotify(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("Unexpected should fail")
 	}
 
-	serverConfig.Notify.SetWebhookByID("10", webhookNotify{Enable: true, Endpoint: "http://www."})
+	serverConfig.Notify.SetWebhookByID("10", webhookNotify{Enable: true, Endpoint: "http://127.0.0.1:xxx"})
 	_, err = newWebhookNotify("10")
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("Unexpected should fail with lookupHost")

cmd/utils.go

@@ -110,24 +110,6 @@ const (
 	httpsScheme = "https"
 )
 
-var portMap = map[string]string{
-	httpScheme:  "80",
-	httpsScheme: "443",
-}
-
-// Given a string of the form "host", "host:port", or "[ipv6::address]:port",
-// return true if the string includes a port.
-func hasPort(s string) bool { return strings.LastIndex(s, ":") > strings.LastIndex(s, "]") }
-
-// canonicalAddr returns url.Host but always with a ":port" suffix
-func canonicalAddr(u *url.URL) string {
-	addr := u.Host
-	if !hasPort(addr) {
-		return addr + ":" + portMap[u.Scheme]
-	}
-	return addr
-}
-
 // checkDuplicates - function to validate if there are duplicates in a slice of endPoints.
 func checkDuplicateEndpoints(endpoints []*url.URL) error {
 	var strs []string