From 970c22f970f0172e6a4c98ccc3176c740ddaa1c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Wu Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:59:25 +0100 Subject: libcurl: add UNIX domain sockets support The ability to do HTTP requests over a UNIX domain socket has been requested before, in Apr 2008 [0][1] and Sep 2010 [2]. While a discussion happened, no patch seems to get through. I decided to give it a go since I need to test a nginx HTTP server which listens on a UNIX domain socket. One patch [3] seems to make it possible to use the CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION function to gain a UNIX domain socket. Another person wrote a Go program which can do HTTP over a UNIX socket for Docker[4] which uses a special URL scheme (though the name contains cURL, it has no relation to the cURL library). This patch considers support for UNIX domain sockets at the same level as HTTP proxies / IPv6, it acts as an intermediate socket provider and not as a separate protocol. Since this feature affects network operations, a new feature flag was added ("unix-sockets") with a corresponding CURL_VERSION_UNIX_SOCKETS macro. A new CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH option is added and documented. This option enables UNIX domain sockets support for all requests on the handle (replacing IP sockets and skipping proxies). A new configure option (--enable-unix-sockets) and CMake option (ENABLE_UNIX_SOCKETS) can disable this optional feature. Note that I deliberately did not mark this feature as advanced, this is a feature/component that should easily be available. [0]: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-04/0279.html [1]: http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/04/14/http-over-unix-domain-sockets/ [2]: http://sourceforge.net/p/curl/feature-requests/53/ [3]: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-04/0361.html [4]: https://github.com/Soulou/curl-unix-socket Signed-off-by: Peter Wu --- tests/server/sws.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'tests') diff --git a/tests/server/sws.c b/tests/server/sws.c index 03e0d0c3d..14153c6da 100644 --- a/tests/server/sws.c +++ b/tests/server/sws.c @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static enum { , socket_domain_inet6 = AF_INET6 #endif #ifdef USE_UNIX_SOCKETS - socket_domain_unix = AF_UNIX, + , socket_domain_unix = AF_UNIX #endif } socket_domain = AF_INET; static bool use_gopher = FALSE; -- cgit v1.2.3