NETCONF Working Group K. Watsen
Internet-Draft Watsen Networks
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YANG Groupings for HTTP Clients and HTTP Servers
draft-kwatsen-netconf-http-client-server-00
Abstract
This document defines two YANG modules: the first defines a grouping
for configuring a generic HTTP client, and the second defines a
grouping for configuring a generic HTTP server. It is intended that
these groupings will be used by applications using the HTTP protocol.
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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.3. YANG Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. The HTTP Server Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1. Tree Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2. Example Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3. YANG Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1. Introduction
This document defines two YANG 1.1 [RFC7950] modules: the first
defines a grouping for configuring a generic HTTP client, and the
second defines a grouping for configuring a generic HTTP server. It
is intended that these groupings will be used by applications using
the HTTP protocol. For instance, these groupings could help define
the configuration module for an SSH, TLS, or HTTP based application.
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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 http-client-grouping
+-- http-client-identity
| +-- (auth-type)?
| +--:(basic)
| | +-- basic
| | +-- user-id? string
| | +-- password? string
| +--:(bearer)
| | +-- bearer
| | +-- token? string
| +--:(digest)
| | +-- digest
| | +-- username? string
| | +-- password? string
| +--:(hoba)
| | +-- hoba
| +--:(mutual)
| | +-- mutual
| +--:(negotiate)
| | +-- negotiate
| +--:(oauth)
| | +-- oauth
| +--:(scram-sha-1)
| | +-- scram-sha-1
| +--:(scram-sha-256)
| | +-- scram-sha-256
| +--:(vapid)
| +-- vapid
+-- http-keepalives {http-client-keepalives}?
+-- max-wait? uint16
+-- max-attempts? uint8
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grouping http-client-identity-grouping
+-- http-client-identity
+-- (auth-type)?
+--:(basic)
| +-- basic
| +-- user-id? string
| +-- password? string
+--:(bearer)
| +-- bearer
| +-- token? string
+--:(digest)
| +-- digest
| +-- username? string
| +-- password? string
+--:(hoba)
| +-- hoba
+--:(mutual)
| +-- mutual
+--:(negotiate)
| +-- negotiate
+--:(oauth)
| +-- oauth
+--:(scram-sha-1)
| +-- scram-sha-1
+--:(scram-sha-256)
| +-- scram-sha-256
+--:(vapid)
+-- vapid
grouping http-keepalives-grouping
+-- http-keepalives {http-client-keepalives}?
+-- max-wait? uint16
+-- max-attempts? uint8
3.2. Example Usage
This section presents an example showing the http-client-grouping
populated with some data.
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3.3. YANG Module
This YANG module has normative references to [RFC6991].
file "ietf-http-client@2019-03-09.yang"
module ietf-http-client {
yang-version 1.1;
namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-client";
prefix httpc;
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
can be used as a basis for specific HTTP client instances.
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.
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
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(http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
This version of this YANG module is part of RFC XXXX; see
the RFC itself for full legal notices.";
revision 2019-03-09 {
description
"Initial version";
reference
"RFC XXXX: YANG Groupings for HTTP Clients and HTTP Servers";
}
// Features
feature http-client-keepalives {
description
"Per socket HTTP keepalive parameters are configurable for
HTTP clients on the server implementing this feature.";
}
// Groupings
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.";
uses http-client-identity-grouping;
uses http-keepalives-grouping;
// uses http-proxy-grouping;
}
grouping http-client-identity-grouping {
description
"A reusable grouping for configuring a HTTP client identity.";
container http-client-identity {
description
"The credentials used by the client to authenticate to
the HTTP server.";
choice auth-type {
description
"The authentication type.";
container basic {
leaf user-id {
type string;
description
"The user-id for the authenticating client.";
}
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leaf password {
type string;
description
"The password for the authenticating client.";
}
description
"The 'basic' HTTP scheme credentials.";
reference
"RFC 7617: The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme";
}
container bearer {
leaf token {
type string;
description
"The bearer token for the authenticating client,
encoded in base64, as described in RFC 6750,
Section 2.1.";
}
description
"The 'bearer' HTTP scheme credentials.";
reference
"RFC 6750: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework:
Bearer Token Usage";
}
container digest {
leaf username {
type string;
description
"The username for the authenticating client.";
}
leaf password {
type string;
description
"The password for the authenticating client.";
}
description
"The 'digest' HTTP scheme credentials.";
reference
"RFC 7616: HTTP Digest Access Authentication";
}
container hoba {
// FIXME
description
"The 'hoba' HTTP scheme credentials.";
reference
"RFC 7486: HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication (HOBA)";
}
container mutual {
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// FIXME
description
"The 'mutual' HTTP scheme credentials.";
reference
"RFC 8120: Mutual Authentication Protocol for HTTP";
}
container negotiate {
// FIXME
description
"The 'negotiate' HTTP scheme credentials.";
reference
"RFC 4559: SPNEGO-based Kerberos and NTLM HTTP
Authentication in Microsoft Windows";
}
container oauth {
// FIXME
description
"The 'oauth' HTTP scheme credentials.";
reference
"RFC 6749: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework";
}
container scram-sha-1 {
// FIXME
description
"The 'scram-sha-1' HTTP scheme credentials.";
reference
"RFC 7804: Salted Challenge Response HTTP
Authentication Mechanism";
}
container scram-sha-256 {
// FIXME
description
"The 'scram-sha-256' HTTP scheme credentials.";
reference
"RFC 7804: Salted Challenge Response HTTP
Authentication Mechanism";
}
container vapid {
// FIXME
description
"The 'vapid' HTTP scheme credentials.";
reference
"RFC 8292: Voluntary Application Server
Identification (VAPID) for Web Push";
}
}
}
}
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grouping http-keepalives-grouping {
description
"A reusable grouping for configuring HTTP client keepalive
parameters.";
container http-keepalives {
if-feature "http-client-keepalives";
description
"Configures the keep-alive policy, to proactively test
the aliveness of the HTTP server. An unresponsive
HTTP server is dropped after approximately max-wait
* max-attempts seconds.";
leaf max-wait {
type uint16 {
range "1..max";
}
units "seconds";
default "30";
description
"Sets the amount of time in seconds after which if no
data has been received from the HTTP server, a HTTP
level message will be sent to test the aliveness of
the HTTP server.";
}
leaf max-attempts {
type uint8;
default "3";
description
"Sets the maximum number of sequential keep-alive messages
that can fail to obtain a response from the HTTP server
before assuming the HTTP server is no longer alive.";
}
}
}
}
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
+-- http-keepalives {http-server-keepalives}?
+-- max-wait? uint16
+-- max-attempts? uint8
grouping keepalives-grouping
+-- http-keepalives {http-server-keepalives}?
+-- max-wait? uint16
+-- max-attempts? uint8
4.2. Example Usage
This section presents an example showing the http-server-grouping
populated with some data.
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4.3. YANG Module
This YANG module has normative references to [RFC6991].
file "ietf-http-server@2019-03-09.yang"
module ietf-http-server {
yang-version 1.1;
namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-server";
prefix https;
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.
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
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capitals, as shown here.
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
(http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
This version of this YANG module is part of RFC XXXX; see
the RFC itself for full legal notices.";
revision 2019-03-09 {
description
"Initial version";
reference
"RFC XXXX: YANG Groupings for HTTP Clients and HTTP Servers";
}
// Features
feature http-server-keepalives {
description
"Per socket HTTP keepalive parameters are configurable for
HTTP servers on the server implementing this feature.";
}
// Groupings
grouping http-server-grouping {
description
"A reusable grouping for configuring a HTTP server,
including the IP address and port number it listens
for connections on.";
uses keepalives-grouping;
}
grouping keepalives-grouping {
description
"A reusable grouping for configuring HTTP server keepalive
parameters.";
container http-keepalives {
if-feature "http-server-keepalives";
description
"Configures the keep-alive policy, to proactively test
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the aliveness of the HTTP client. An unresponsive
HTTP client is dropped after approximately max-wait
* max-attempts seconds.";
leaf max-wait {
type uint16 {
range "1..max";
}
units "seconds";
default "30";
description
"Sets the amount of time in seconds after which if no
data has been received from the HTTP client, a HTTP
level message will be sent to test the aliveness of
the HTTP client.";
}
leaf max-attempts {
type uint8;
default "3";
description
"Sets the maximum number of sequential keep-alive messages
that can fail to obtain a response from the HTTP client
before assuming the HTTP client is no longer alive.";
}
}
}
}
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.
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)
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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:
NONE
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:
NONE
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:
NONE
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,
.
Author's Address
Kent Watsen
Watsen Networks
EMail: kent+ietf@watsen.net
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