// Package netxlite contains network extensions. // // This package is the basic networking building block that you // should be using every time you need networking. // // It implements interfaces defined in internal/model/netx.go. // // You should consider checking the tutorial explaining how to use this package // for network measurements: https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/tree/master/internal/tutorial/netxlite. // // Naming and history // // Previous versions of this package were called netx. Compared to such // versions this package is lightweight because it does not contain code // to perform the measurements, hence its name. // // Design // // We want to potentially be able to observe each low-level operation // separately, even though this is not done by this package. This is // the use case where we are performing measurements. // // We also want to be able to use this package in a more casual way // without having to compose each operation separately. This, instead, is // the use case where we're communicating with the OONI backend. // // We want to optionally provide detailed logging of every operation, // thus users can use `-v` to obtain OONI logs. // // We also want to mock any underlying dependency for testing. // // We also want to map errors to OONI failures, which are described by // https://github.com/ooni/spec/blob/master/data-formats/df-007-errors.md. // // We want to have reasonable watchdog timeouts for each operation. // // We also want lightweight support for tracing network events. To this end, we // use context.WithValue and context.Value to inject, and retrieve, a model.Trace // implementation OPTIONALLY configured by the user. // // See also the design document at docs/design/dd-003-step-by-step.md, // which provides an overview of netxlite's main concerns. // // Operations // // This package implements the following operations: // // 1. establishing a TCP connection; // // 2. performing a domain name resolution with the "stdlib" resolver // (i.e., getaddrinfo on Unix) or custom DNS transports (e.g., DoT, DoH); // // 3. performing the TLS handshake; // // 4. performing the QUIC handshake; // // 5. dialing with TCP, TLS, and QUIC (where in this context dialing // means combining domain name resolution and "connecting"); // // 6. performing HTTP, HTTP2, and HTTP3 round trips. // // Operations 1, 2, 3, and 4 are used when we perform measurements, // while 5 and 6 are mostly used when speaking with our backend. // // Getaddrinfo usage // // When compiled with CGO_ENABLED=1, this package will link with libc // and call getaddrinfo directly. While this design choice means we will // need to maintain more code, it also allows us to save the correct // getaddrinfo return value, which is hidden by the Go resolver. Also, // this strategy allows us to deal with the Android EAI_NODATA implementation // quirk (see https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/2029). // // We currently use net.Resolver when CGO_ENABLED=0. A future version of // netxlite MIGHT change this and use a custom UDP resolver in such a // case, to avoid depending on the assumption that /etc/resolver.conf is // present on the target system. See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/2118 // for more details regarding ongoing plans to bypass net.Resolver when // CGO_ENABLED=0. (If you're reading this piece of documentation and notice // it's not updated, please submit a pull request to update it :-). package netxlite