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Re: Supporting socks proxy via unix sockets
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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:32:27 +0200 (CEST)
On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, Dan Fandrich via curl-users wrote:
> My preference is still for the file: style triple-slash syntax
> socks5h:///path/to/socks.sock but it sounds like that won't work without
> changes to the URL parser. Given that a normal socks path will never use the
> path portion of the URL, it means the host part could be pretty flexible. So
> much so that the host part could be completely ignored if a path of any sort
> exists in the URL (I'm not suggesting we do that, though).
Maybe we could require "localhost" as hostname and if the URL then has a path
it means it is a unix-socket and not a "normal one"?
Like this:
socks5h://localhost/path/to/socks.sock
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:32:27 +0200 (CEST)
On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, Dan Fandrich via curl-users wrote:
> My preference is still for the file: style triple-slash syntax
> socks5h:///path/to/socks.sock but it sounds like that won't work without
> changes to the URL parser. Given that a normal socks path will never use the
> path portion of the URL, it means the host part could be pretty flexible. So
> much so that the host part could be completely ignored if a path of any sort
> exists in the URL (I'm not suggesting we do that, though).
Maybe we could require "localhost" as hostname and if the URL then has a path
it means it is a unix-socket and not a "normal one"?
Like this:
socks5h://localhost/path/to/socks.sock
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