Feature Requests item #3076983, was opened at 2010-09-28 15:38
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Category: libcurl
Group: download
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Andrei Tarassov (atarassov)
Assigned to: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Summary: Allow connecting via UNIX local domain sockets

Initial Comment:
TCP sockets are just one way to provide access to HTTP/FTP and proxy servers. On UNIX there is also another type of sockets: UNIX local domain. In certain scenarios one may want to configure a web server or, more interestingly, a proxy server to listen to a UNIX local domain socket. For example, a special proxy server could perform extra complicated processing on the client machine (custom authentication, custom filtering, custom caching) before forwarding the request to the target server.

It would be good if libcurl (as well as the command line curl) could be configured to connect to the target server via a UNIX local domain socket rather than a TCP socket.

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Received on 2010-09-28