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Re: Supporting socks proxy via unix sockets

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 23:11:06 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 15 Apr 2022, Alex Bligh wrote:

>> Like this:
>>
>> socks5h://localhost/path/to/socks.sock
>
> For socks5h maybe, but if you want sockets to work in general in URLs,
> that's not going to work. Consider making an http request:
>
> http://localhost/path/to/socks.sock
>
> is a perfectly valid 127.0.0.1:80 URL. But using the above scheme it could
> be a socket URL.

I spoke about the URL format used to specify *proxies*, like the argument set
with -x. That's not the URL used for transfers, so there's no way a "real" URL
can be mistaken for a proxy or vice versa.

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Received on 2022-04-15