NETCONF Working Group K. Watsen
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YANG Groupings for HTTP Clients and HTTP Servers
draft-ietf-netconf-http-client-server-01
Abstract
This document defines two YANG modules: the first defines a minimal
grouping for configuring an HTTP client, and the second defines a
minimal grouping for configuring an HTTP server. It is intended that
these groupings will be used to help define the configuration for
simple HTTP-based protocols (not for complete webservers or
browsers).
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. The HTTP Client Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1. Tree Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2. Example Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.3. YANG Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. The HTTP Server Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.1. Tree Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2. Example Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.3. YANG Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.1. The IETF XML Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.2. The YANG Module Names Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Appendix A. Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
A.1. 00 to 01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1. Introduction
This document defines two YANG 1.1 [RFC7950] modules: the first
defines a minimal grouping for configuring an HTTP client, and the
second defines a minimal grouping for configuring an HTTP server. It
is intended that these groupings will be used to help define the
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configuration for simple HTTP-based protocols (not for complete
webservers or browsers).
2. Terminology
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.
3. The HTTP Client Model
3.1. Tree Diagram
This section provides a tree diagram [RFC8340] for the "ietf-http-
client" module.
module: ietf-http-client
grouping client-identity-grouping
+-- (auth-type)
+--:(basic)
+-- basic {basic-auth}?
+-- user-id string
+-- password string
grouping http-client-grouping
+-- client-identity
| +---u client-identity-grouping
+-- proxy-server! {proxy-connect}?
+-- tcp-client-parameters
| +---u tcpc:tcp-client-grouping
+-- tls-client-parameters
| +---u tlsc:tls-client-grouping
+-- proxy-client-identity
+---u client-identity-grouping
3.2. Example Usage
This section presents an example showing the http-client-grouping
populated with some data.
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bob
secret
3.3. YANG Module
This YANG module has normative references to [RFC6991].
file "ietf-http-client@2019-11-20.yang"
module ietf-http-client {
yang-version 1.1;
namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-client";
prefix httpc;
import ietf-tcp-client {
prefix tcpc;
reference
"RFC AAAA: YANG Groupings for TCP Clients and TCP Servers";
}
import ietf-tls-client {
prefix tlsc;
reference
"RFC BBBB: YANG Groupings for TLS Clients and TLS Servers";
}
import ietf-netconf-acm {
prefix nacm;
reference
"RFC 8341: Network Configuration Access Control Model";
}
organization
"IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group";
contact
"WG Web:
WG List:
Author: Kent Watsen ";
description
"This module defines reusable groupings for HTTP clients that
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can be used as a basis for specific HTTP client instances.
Copyright (c) 2019 IETF Trust and the persons identified
as authors of the code. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with
or without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and
subject to the license terms contained in, the Simplified
BSD License set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's
Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents
(https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
This version of this YANG module is part of RFC XXXX
(https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfcXXXX); see the RFC
itself for full legal notices.
The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL',
'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED',
'NOT RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', and 'OPTIONAL' in this document
are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 (RFC 2119)
(RFC 8174) when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.";
revision 2019-11-20 {
description
"Initial version";
reference
"RFC XXXX: YANG Groupings for HTTP Clients and HTTP Servers";
}
// Features
feature proxy-connect {
description
"Proxy connection configuration is configurable for
HTTP clients on the server implementing this feature.";
}
feature basic-auth {
description
"The 'basic-auth' feature indicates that the client
may be configured to use the 'basic' HTTP authentication
scheme.";
reference
"RFC 7617: The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme";
}
// Groupings
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grouping client-identity-grouping {
description
"The credentials used by the client to authenticate to
the HTTP server.";
choice auth-type {
nacm:default-deny-write;
mandatory true;
description
"The authentication type.";
case basic {
container basic {
if-feature "basic-auth";
leaf user-id {
type string;
mandatory true;
description
"The user-id for the authenticating client.";
}
leaf password {
nacm:default-deny-all;
type string;
mandatory true;
description
"The password for the authenticating client.";
}
description
"The 'basic' HTTP scheme credentials.";
reference
"RFC 7617: The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme";
}
}
}
} // grouping client-identity-grouping
grouping http-client-grouping {
description
"A reusable grouping for configuring a HTTP client,
including the IP address and port number it initiates
a connections to.
Note that this grouping uses fairly typical descendent
node names such that a stack of 'uses' statements will
have name conflicts. It is intended that the consuming
data model will resolve the issue (e.g., by wrapping
the 'uses' statement in a container called
'http-client-parameters'). This model purposely does
not do this itself so as to provide maximum flexibility
to consuming models.";
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container client-identity {
description
"The identity the HTTP client should use when
authenticating itself to the HTTP server.";
uses client-identity-grouping;
}
container proxy-server {
nacm:default-deny-write;
if-feature "proxy-connect";
presence true; // only so ex-http-client can pass validation?
container tcp-client-parameters {
description
"A wrapper around the TCP parameters to avoid
name collisions.";
uses "tcpc:tcp-client-grouping";
}
container tls-client-parameters {
description
"A wrapper around the TLS parameters to avoid
name collisions.";
uses "tlsc:tls-client-grouping";
}
container proxy-client-identity {
description
"The identity the HTTP client should use when
authenticating itself to the HTTP server.";
uses client-identity-grouping;
}
description
"Proxy server settings.";
}
} // grouping http-client-grouping
} // module ietf-http-client
4. The HTTP Server Model
4.1. Tree Diagram
This section provides a tree diagram [RFC8340] for the "ietf-http-
server" module.
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module: ietf-http-server
grouping http-server-grouping
+-- server-name? string
+-- protocol-versions
| +-- protocol-version* enumeration
+-- client-authentication! {client-auth-config-supported}?
+-- users
+-- user* [user-id]
+-- user-id? string
+-- (auth-type)?
+--:(basic)
+-- basic {basic-auth}?
+-- user-id? string
+-- password? ianach:crypt-hash
4.2. Example Usage
This section presents an example showing the http-server-grouping
populated with some data.
foo.example.com
HTTP/1.1
HTTP/2.0
4.3. YANG Module
This YANG module has normative references to [RFC6991].
file "ietf-http-server@2019-11-20.yang"
module ietf-http-server {
yang-version 1.1;
namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-server";
prefix https;
import iana-crypt-hash {
prefix ianach;
reference
"RFC 7317: A YANG Data Model for System Management";
}
import ietf-netconf-acm {
prefix nacm;
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reference
"RFC 8341: Network Configuration Access Control Model";
}
organization
"IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group";
contact
"WG Web:
WG List:
Author: Kent Watsen ";
description
"This module defines reusable groupings for HTTP servers that
can be used as a basis for specific HTTP server instances.
Copyright (c) 2019 IETF Trust and the persons identified
as authors of the code. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with
or without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and
subject to the license terms contained in, the Simplified
BSD License set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's
Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents
(https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
This version of this YANG module is part of RFC XXXX
(https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfcXXXX); see the RFC
itself for full legal notices.
The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL',
'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED',
'NOT RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', and 'OPTIONAL' in this document
are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 (RFC 2119)
(RFC 8174) when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.";
revision 2019-11-20 {
description
"Initial version";
reference
"RFC XXXX: YANG Groupings for HTTP Clients and HTTP Servers";
}
// Features
feature client-auth-config-supported {
description
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"Indicates that the configuration for how to authenticate
clients can be configured herein, as opposed to in an
application specific location. That is, to support the
consuming data models that prefer to place client
authentication with client definitions, rather then
in a data model principally concerned with configuring
the transport.";
}
feature external-client-auth-supported {
description
"Indicates that the HTTP server supports external configuration
of client credentials.";
}
feature basic-auth {
description
"The 'basic-auth' feature indicates that the server
may be configured authenticate users using the 'basic'
HTTP authentication scheme.";
reference
"RFC 7617: The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme";
}
// Groupings
grouping http-server-grouping {
description
"A reusable grouping for configuring an HTTP server.
Note that this grouping uses fairly typical descendent
node names such that a stack of 'uses' statements will
have name conflicts. It is intended that the consuming
data model will resolve the issue (e.g., by wrapping
the 'uses' statement in a container called
'http-server-parameters'). This model purposely does
not do this itself so as to provide maximum flexibility
to consuming models.";
leaf server-name {
nacm:default-deny-write;
type string;
description
"The value of the 'Server' header field. If not set, then
underlying software's default value is used. Set to the
empty string to disable.";
}
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container protocol-versions {
nacm:default-deny-write;
description
"A list of HTTP protocol versions supported by this
server.";
leaf-list protocol-version {
type enumeration {
enum "HTTP/1.0" {
description
"The server supports the 'HTTP/1.0' protocol.";
}
enum "HTTP/1.1" {
description
"The server supports the 'HTTP/1.1' protocol.";
}
enum "HTTP/2.0" {
description
"The server supports the 'HTTP/2.0' protocol.";
}
}
description
"An HTTP protocol version supported by this server.";
}
}
container client-authentication {
if-feature "client-auth-config-supported";
nacm:default-deny-write;
presence
"Indicates that HTTP based client authentication is
supported (i.e., the server will request that the
HTTP client send authenticate when needed). This
is needed as some HTTP-based protocols may only
support, e.g., TLS-level client authentication.";
description
"Specifies how the HTTP server can authenticate HTTP
clients.";
container users {
description
"A list of locally configured users.";
list user {
key user-id;
description
"The list of local users configured on this device.";
leaf user-id {
type string;
description
"The user-id for the authenticating client.";
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}
choice auth-type {
description
"The authentication type.";
container basic {
if-feature "basic-auth";
leaf user-id {
type string;
description
"The user-id for the authenticating client.";
}
leaf password {
nacm:default-deny-write;
type ianach:crypt-hash;
description
"The password for the authenticating client.";
}
description
"The 'basic' HTTP scheme credentials.";
reference
"RFC 7617:
The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme";
}
}
}
}
} // container client-authentication
} // grouping http-server-grouping
}
5. Security Considerations
The YANG modules defined in this document are designed to be accessed
via YANG based management protocols, such as NETCONF [RFC6241] and
RESTCONF [RFC8040]. Both of these protocols have mandatory-to-
implement secure transport layers (e.g., SSH, HTTP) with mutual
authentication.
The NETCONF access control model (NACM) [RFC8341] provides the means
to restrict access for particular users to a pre-configured subset of
all available protocol operations and content.
Since the modules defined in this document only define groupings,
these considerations are primarily for the designers of other modules
that use these groupings.
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There are a number of data nodes defined in the YANG modules that are
writable/creatable/deletable (i.e., config true, which is the
default). These data nodes may be considered sensitive or vulnerable
in some network environments. Write operations (e.g., edit-config)
to these data nodes without proper protection can have a negative
effect on network operations. These are the subtrees and data nodes
and their sensitivity/vulnerability:
FIXME: (pending - TBD)
Some of the readable data nodes in the YANG modules may be considered
sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. It is thus
important to control read access (e.g., via get, get-config, or
notification) to these data nodes. These are the subtrees and data
nodes and their sensitivity/vulnerability:
FIXME: (pending client auth params?)
Some of the RPC operations in this YANG module may be considered
sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. It is thus
important to control access to these operations. These are the
operations and their sensitivity/vulnerability:
The modules defined in this document do not define any 'RPC' or
'action' statements.
6. IANA Considerations
6.1. The IETF XML Registry
This document registers two URIs in the "ns" subregistry of the IETF
XML Registry [RFC3688]. Following the format in [RFC3688], the
following registrations are requested:
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-client
Registrant Contact: The NETCONF WG of the IETF.
XML: N/A, the requested URI is an XML namespace.
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-server
Registrant Contact: The NETCONF WG of the IETF.
XML: N/A, the requested URI is an XML namespace.
6.2. The YANG Module Names Registry
This document registers two YANG modules in the YANG Module Names
registry [RFC6020]. Following the format in [RFC6020], the following
registrations are requested:
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name: ietf-http-client
namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-client
prefix: httpc
reference: RFC XXXX
name: ietf-http-server
namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-server
prefix: https
reference: RFC XXXX
7. References
7.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
.
[RFC6020] Bjorklund, M., Ed., "YANG - A Data Modeling Language for
the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC 6020,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6020, October 2010,
.
[RFC6991] Schoenwaelder, J., Ed., "Common YANG Data Types",
RFC 6991, DOI 10.17487/RFC6991, July 2013,
.
[RFC7950] Bjorklund, M., Ed., "The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling Language",
RFC 7950, DOI 10.17487/RFC7950, August 2016,
.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, .
[RFC8341] Bierman, A. and M. Bjorklund, "Network Configuration
Access Control Model", STD 91, RFC 8341,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8341, March 2018,
.
7.2. Informative References
[RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3688, January 2004,
.
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[RFC6241] Enns, R., Ed., Bjorklund, M., Ed., Schoenwaelder, J., Ed.,
and A. Bierman, Ed., "Network Configuration Protocol
(NETCONF)", RFC 6241, DOI 10.17487/RFC6241, June 2011,
.
[RFC8040] Bierman, A., Bjorklund, M., and K. Watsen, "RESTCONF
Protocol", RFC 8040, DOI 10.17487/RFC8040, January 2017,
.
[RFC8340] Bjorklund, M. and L. Berger, Ed., "YANG Tree Diagrams",
BCP 215, RFC 8340, DOI 10.17487/RFC8340, March 2018,
.
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Appendix A. Change Log
A.1. 00 to 01
o Modified Abstract and Intro to be more accurate wrt intended
applicability.
o In ietf-http-client, removed "protocol-version" and all auth
schemes except "basic".
o In ietf-http-client, factored out "client-identity-grouping" for
proxy connections.
o In ietf-http-server, removed "choice required-or-optional" and
"choice local-or-external".
o In ietf-http-server, moved the basic auth under a "choice auth-
type" limited by new "feature basic-auth".
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank for following for lively discussions
on list and in the halls (ordered by last name): TBD
Author's Address
Kent Watsen
Watsen Networks
EMail: kent+ietf@watsen.net
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