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Re: vsock support

From: Dan Fandrich via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 22:45:48 -0700

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:37:51AM +0200, snek via curl-library wrote:
> Hello, I've been working on some code that uses vsock and wanted to use curl to
> test it, and to my surprise curl doesn't support vsock. I hacked something
> together (https://github.com/devsnek/curl/tree/vsock), but I'm curious if this
> feature would be accepted upstream, since as far as I can tell it's never been
> discussed in any issues or on the mailing list before. I'd be willing to
> contribute it but I am pretty unfamiliar with the codebase and these old C
> configuration systems so if folks feel positively about this feature I might
> need some guidance getting the code up to the expected quality.

What kinds of protocols that curl supports are used over vsock? I don't really
know anything about it, but I would imagine that you wouldn't usually see
protocols like HTTP on it.

Dan
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