void manage_client_side_cookies(struct stream *s, struct channel *req)
{
	struct http_txn *txn = s->txn;
	struct session *sess = s->sess;
	int preserve_hdr;
	int cur_idx, old_idx;
	char *hdr_beg, *hdr_end, *hdr_next, *del_from;
	char *prev, *att_beg, *att_end, *equal, *val_beg, *val_end, *next;

	/* Iterate through the headers, we start with the start line. */
	old_idx = 0;
	hdr_next = req->buf->p + hdr_idx_first_pos(&txn->hdr_idx);

	while ((cur_idx = txn->hdr_idx.v[old_idx].next)) {
		struct hdr_idx_elem *cur_hdr;
		int val;

		cur_hdr  = &txn->hdr_idx.v[cur_idx];
		hdr_beg  = hdr_next;
		hdr_end  = hdr_beg + cur_hdr->len;
		hdr_next = hdr_end + cur_hdr->cr + 1;

		/* We have one full header between hdr_beg and hdr_end, and the
		 * next header starts at hdr_next. We're only interested in
		 * "Cookie:" headers.
		 */

		val = http_header_match2(hdr_beg, hdr_end, "Cookie", 6);
		if (!val) {
			old_idx = cur_idx;
			continue;
		}

		del_from = NULL;  /* nothing to be deleted */
		preserve_hdr = 0; /* assume we may kill the whole header */

		/* Now look for cookies. Conforming to RFC2109, we have to support
		 * attributes whose name begin with a '$', and associate them with
		 * the right cookie, if we want to delete this cookie.
		 * So there are 3 cases for each cookie read :
		 * 1) it's a special attribute, beginning with a '$' : ignore it.
		 * 2) it's a server id cookie that we *MAY* want to delete : save
		 *    some pointers on it (last semi-colon, beginning of cookie...)
		 * 3) it's an application cookie : we *MAY* have to delete a previous
		 *    "special" cookie.
		 * At the end of loop, if a "special" cookie remains, we may have to
		 * remove it. If no application cookie persists in the header, we
		 * *MUST* delete it.
		 *
		 * Note: RFC2965 is unclear about the processing of spaces around
		 * the equal sign in the ATTR=VALUE form. A careful inspection of
		 * the RFC explicitly allows spaces before it, and not within the
		 * tokens (attrs or values). An inspection of RFC2109 allows that
		 * too but section 10.1.3 lets one think that spaces may be allowed
		 * after the equal sign too, resulting in some (rare) buggy
		 * implementations trying to do that. So let's do what servers do.
		 * Latest ietf draft forbids spaces all around. Also, earlier RFCs
		 * allowed quoted strings in values, with any possible character
		 * after a backslash, including control chars and delimitors, which
		 * causes parsing to become ambiguous. Browsers also allow spaces
		 * within values even without quotes.
		 *
		 * We have to keep multiple pointers in order to support cookie
		 * removal at the beginning, middle or end of header without
		 * corrupting the header. All of these headers are valid :
		 *
		 * Cookie:NAME1=VALUE1;NAME2=VALUE2;NAME3=VALUE3\r\n
		 * Cookie:NAME1=VALUE1;NAME2_ONLY ;NAME3=VALUE3\r\n
		 * Cookie:    NAME1  =  VALUE 1  ; NAME2 = VALUE2 ; NAME3 = VALUE3\r\n
		 * |     |    |    | |  |      | |                                |
		 * |     |    |    | |  |      | |                     hdr_end <--+
		 * |     |    |    | |  |      | +--> next
		 * |     |    |    | |  |      +----> val_end
		 * |     |    |    | |  +-----------> val_beg
		 * |     |    |    | +--------------> equal
		 * |     |    |    +----------------> att_end
		 * |     |    +---------------------> att_beg
		 * |     +--------------------------> prev
		 * +--------------------------------> hdr_beg
		 */

		for (prev = hdr_beg + 6; prev < hdr_end; prev = next) {
			/* Iterate through all cookies on this line */

			/* find att_beg */
			att_beg = prev + 1;
			while (att_beg < hdr_end && HTTP_IS_SPHT(*att_beg))
				att_beg++;

			/* find att_end : this is the first character after the last non
			 * space before the equal. It may be equal to hdr_end.
			 */
			equal = att_end = att_beg;

			while (equal < hdr_end) {
				if (*equal == '=' || *equal == ',' || *equal == ';')
					break;
				if (HTTP_IS_SPHT(*equal++))
					continue;
				att_end = equal;
			}

			/* here, <equal> points to '=', a delimitor or the end. <att_end>
			 * is between <att_beg> and <equal>, both may be identical.
			 */

			/* look for end of cookie if there is an equal sign */
			if (equal < hdr_end && *equal == '=') {
				/* look for the beginning of the value */
				val_beg = equal + 1;
				while (val_beg < hdr_end && HTTP_IS_SPHT(*val_beg))
					val_beg++;

				/* find the end of the value, respecting quotes */
				next = find_cookie_value_end(val_beg, hdr_end);

				/* make val_end point to the first white space or delimitor after the value */
				val_end = next;
				while (val_end > val_beg && HTTP_IS_SPHT(*(val_end - 1)))
					val_end--;
			} else {
				val_beg = val_end = next = equal;
			}

			/* We have nothing to do with attributes beginning with '$'. However,
			 * they will automatically be removed if a header before them is removed,
			 * since they're supposed to be linked together.
			 */
			if (*att_beg == '$')
				continue;

			/* Ignore cookies with no equal sign */
			if (equal == next) {
				/* This is not our cookie, so we must preserve it. But if we already
				 * scheduled another cookie for removal, we cannot remove the
				 * complete header, but we can remove the previous block itself.
				 */
				preserve_hdr = 1;
				if (del_from != NULL) {
					int delta = del_hdr_value(req->buf, &del_from, prev);
					val_end  += delta;
					next     += delta;
					hdr_end  += delta;
					hdr_next += delta;
					cur_hdr->len += delta;
					http_msg_move_end(&txn->req, delta);
					prev     = del_from;
					del_from = NULL;
				}
				continue;
			}

			/* if there are spaces around the equal sign, we need to
			 * strip them otherwise we'll get trouble for cookie captures,
			 * or even for rewrites. Since this happens extremely rarely,
			 * it does not hurt performance.
			 */
			if (unlikely(att_end != equal || val_beg > equal + 1)) {
				int stripped_before = 0;
				int stripped_after = 0;

				if (att_end != equal) {
					stripped_before = buffer_replace2(req->buf, att_end, equal, NULL, 0);
					equal   += stripped_before;
					val_beg += stripped_before;
				}

				if (val_beg > equal + 1) {
					stripped_after = buffer_replace2(req->buf, equal + 1, val_beg, NULL, 0);
					val_beg += stripped_after;
					stripped_before += stripped_after;
				}

				val_end      += stripped_before;
				next         += stripped_before;
				hdr_end      += stripped_before;
				hdr_next     += stripped_before;
				cur_hdr->len += stripped_before;
				http_msg_move_end(&txn->req, stripped_before);
			}
			/* now everything is as on the diagram above */

			/* First, let's see if we want to capture this cookie. We check
			 * that we don't already have a client side cookie, because we
			 * can only capture one. Also as an optimisation, we ignore
			 * cookies shorter than the declared name.
			 */
			if (sess->fe->capture_name != NULL && txn->cli_cookie == NULL &&
			    (val_end - att_beg >= sess->fe->capture_namelen) &&
			    memcmp(att_beg, sess->fe->capture_name, sess->fe->capture_namelen) == 0) {
				int log_len = val_end - att_beg;

				if ((txn->cli_cookie = pool_alloc(pool_head_capture)) == NULL) {
					ha_alert("HTTP logging : out of memory.\n");
				} else {
					if (log_len > sess->fe->capture_len)
						log_len = sess->fe->capture_len;
					memcpy(txn->cli_cookie, att_beg, log_len);
					txn->cli_cookie[log_len] = 0;
				}
			}

			/* Persistence cookies in passive, rewrite or insert mode have the
			 * following form :
			 *
			 *    Cookie: NAME=SRV[|<lastseen>[|<firstseen>]]
			 *
			 * For cookies in prefix mode, the form is :
			 *
			 *    Cookie: NAME=SRV~VALUE
			 */
			if ((att_end - att_beg == s->be->cookie_len) && (s->be->cookie_name != NULL) &&
			    (memcmp(att_beg, s->be->cookie_name, att_end - att_beg) == 0)) {
				struct server *srv = s->be->srv;
				char *delim;

				/* if we're in cookie prefix mode, we'll search the delimitor so that we
				 * have the server ID between val_beg and delim, and the original cookie between
				 * delim+1 and val_end. Otherwise, delim==val_end :
				 *
				 * Cookie: NAME=SRV;          # in all but prefix modes
				 * Cookie: NAME=SRV~OPAQUE ;  # in prefix mode
				 * |      ||   ||  |      |+-> next
				 * |      ||   ||  |      +--> val_end
				 * |      ||   ||  +---------> delim
				 * |      ||   |+------------> val_beg
				 * |      ||   +-------------> att_end = equal
				 * |      |+-----------------> att_beg
				 * |      +------------------> prev
				 * +-------------------------> hdr_beg
				 */

				if (s->be->ck_opts & PR_CK_PFX) {
					for (delim = val_beg; delim < val_end; delim++)
						if (*delim == COOKIE_DELIM)
							break;
				} else {
					char *vbar1;
					delim = val_end;
					/* Now check if the cookie contains a date field, which would
					 * appear after a vertical bar ('|') just after the server name
					 * and before the delimiter.
					 */
					vbar1 = memchr(val_beg, COOKIE_DELIM_DATE, val_end - val_beg);
					if (vbar1) {
						/* OK, so left of the bar is the server's cookie and
						 * right is the last seen date. It is a base64 encoded
						 * 30-bit value representing the UNIX date since the
						 * epoch in 4-second quantities.
						 */
						int val;
						delim = vbar1++;
						if (val_end - vbar1 >= 5) {
							val = b64tos30(vbar1);
							if (val > 0)
								txn->cookie_last_date = val << 2;
						}
						/* look for a second vertical bar */
						vbar1 = memchr(vbar1, COOKIE_DELIM_DATE, val_end - vbar1);
						if (vbar1 && (val_end - vbar1 > 5)) {
							val = b64tos30(vbar1 + 1);
							if (val > 0)
								txn->cookie_first_date = val << 2;
						}
					}
				}

				/* if the cookie has an expiration date and the proxy wants to check
				 * it, then we do that now. We first check if the cookie is too old,
				 * then only if it has expired. We detect strict overflow because the
				 * time resolution here is not great (4 seconds). Cookies with dates
				 * in the future are ignored if their offset is beyond one day. This
				 * allows an admin to fix timezone issues without expiring everyone
				 * and at the same time avoids keeping unwanted side effects for too
				 * long.
				 */
				if (txn->cookie_first_date && s->be->cookie_maxlife &&
				    (((signed)(date.tv_sec - txn->cookie_first_date) > (signed)s->be->cookie_maxlife) ||
				     ((signed)(txn->cookie_first_date - date.tv_sec) > 86400))) {
					txn->flags &= ~TX_CK_MASK;
					txn->flags |= TX_CK_OLD;
					delim = val_beg; // let's pretend we have not found the cookie
					txn->cookie_first_date = 0;
					txn->cookie_last_date = 0;
				}
				else if (txn->cookie_last_date && s->be->cookie_maxidle &&
					 (((signed)(date.tv_sec - txn->cookie_last_date) > (signed)s->be->cookie_maxidle) ||
					  ((signed)(txn->cookie_last_date - date.tv_sec) > 86400))) {
					txn->flags &= ~TX_CK_MASK;
					txn->flags |= TX_CK_EXPIRED;
					delim = val_beg; // let's pretend we have not found the cookie
					txn->cookie_first_date = 0;
					txn->cookie_last_date = 0;
				}

				/* Here, we'll look for the first running server which supports the cookie.
				 * This allows to share a same cookie between several servers, for example
				 * to dedicate backup servers to specific servers only.
				 * However, to prevent clients from sticking to cookie-less backup server
				 * when they have incidentely learned an empty cookie, we simply ignore
				 * empty cookies and mark them as invalid.
				 * The same behaviour is applied when persistence must be ignored.
				 */
				if ((delim == val_beg) || (s->flags & (SF_IGNORE_PRST | SF_ASSIGNED)))
					srv = NULL;

				while (srv) {
					if (srv->cookie && (srv->cklen == delim - val_beg) &&
					    !memcmp(val_beg, srv->cookie, delim - val_beg)) {
						if ((srv->cur_state != SRV_ST_STOPPED) ||
						    (s->be->options & PR_O_PERSIST) ||
						    (s->flags & SF_FORCE_PRST)) {
							/* we found the server and we can use it */
							txn->flags &= ~TX_CK_MASK;
							txn->flags |= (srv->cur_state != SRV_ST_STOPPED) ? TX_CK_VALID : TX_CK_DOWN;
							s->flags |= SF_DIRECT | SF_ASSIGNED;
							s->target = &srv->obj_type;
							break;
						} else {
							/* we found a server, but it's down,
							 * mark it as such and go on in case
							 * another one is available.
							 */
							txn->flags &= ~TX_CK_MASK;
							txn->flags |= TX_CK_DOWN;
						}
					}
					srv = srv->next;
				}

				if (!srv && !(txn->flags & (TX_CK_DOWN|TX_CK_EXPIRED|TX_CK_OLD))) {
					/* no server matched this cookie or we deliberately skipped it */
					txn->flags &= ~TX_CK_MASK;
					if ((s->flags & (SF_IGNORE_PRST | SF_ASSIGNED)))
						txn->flags |= TX_CK_UNUSED;
					else
						txn->flags |= TX_CK_INVALID;
				}

				/* depending on the cookie mode, we may have to either :
				 * - delete the complete cookie if we're in insert+indirect mode, so that
				 *   the server never sees it ;
				 * - remove the server id from the cookie value, and tag the cookie as an
				 *   application cookie so that it does not get accidentely removed later,
				 *   if we're in cookie prefix mode
				 */
				if ((s->be->ck_opts & PR_CK_PFX) && (delim != val_end)) {
					int delta; /* negative */

					delta = buffer_replace2(req->buf, val_beg, delim + 1, NULL, 0);
					val_end  += delta;
					next     += delta;
					hdr_end  += delta;
					hdr_next += delta;
					cur_hdr->len += delta;
					http_msg_move_end(&txn->req, delta);

					del_from = NULL;
					preserve_hdr = 1; /* we want to keep this cookie */
				}
				else if (del_from == NULL &&
					 (s->be->ck_opts & (PR_CK_INS | PR_CK_IND)) == (PR_CK_INS | PR_CK_IND)) {
					del_from = prev;
				}
			} else {
				/* This is not our cookie, so we must preserve it. But if we already
				 * scheduled another cookie for removal, we cannot remove the
				 * complete header, but we can remove the previous block itself.
				 */
				preserve_hdr = 1;

				if (del_from != NULL) {
					int delta = del_hdr_value(req->buf, &del_from, prev);
					if (att_beg >= del_from)
						att_beg += delta;
					if (att_end >= del_from)
						att_end += delta;
					val_beg  += delta;
					val_end  += delta;
					next     += delta;
					hdr_end  += delta;
					hdr_next += delta;
					cur_hdr->len += delta;
					http_msg_move_end(&txn->req, delta);
					prev     = del_from;
					del_from = NULL;
				}
			}

			/* continue with next cookie on this header line */
			att_beg = next;
		} /* for each cookie */

		/* There are no more cookies on this line.
		 * We may still have one (or several) marked for deletion at the
		 * end of the line. We must do this now in two ways :
		 *  - if some cookies must be preserved, we only delete from the
		 *    mark to the end of line ;
		 *  - if nothing needs to be preserved, simply delete the whole header
		 */
		if (del_from) {
			int delta;
			if (preserve_hdr) {
				delta = del_hdr_value(req->buf, &del_from, hdr_end);
				hdr_end = del_from;
				cur_hdr->len += delta;
			} else {
				delta = buffer_replace2(req->buf, hdr_beg, hdr_next, NULL, 0);

				/* FIXME: this should be a separate function */
				txn->hdr_idx.v[old_idx].next = cur_hdr->next;
				txn->hdr_idx.used--;
				cur_hdr->len = 0;
				cur_idx = old_idx;
			}
			hdr_next += delta;
			http_msg_move_end(&txn->req, delta);
		}

		/* check next header */
		old_idx = cur_idx;
	}
}

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