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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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
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opt-docs: verify man page sections + order In every libcurl option man page there are now 8 mandatory sections that must use the right name in the correct order and test 1173 verifies this. Only 14 man pages needed adjustments. The sections and the order is as follows: - NAME - SYNOPSIS - DESCRIPTION - PROTOCOLS - EXAMPLE - AVAILABILITY - RETURN VALUE - SEE ALSO Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson Closes #7656
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.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2021, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
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curl.se: new home Closes #6172
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.\" * are also available at https://curl.se/docs/copyright.html.
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
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.TH CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH 3 "09 Oct 2014" "libcurl 7.40.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
.SH NAME
opts docs: unify phrasing in NAME header - avoid writing "set ..." or "enable/disable ..." or "specify ..." *All* options for curl_easy_setopt() are about setting or enabling things and most of the existing options didn't use that way of description. - start with lowercase letter, unless abbreviation. For consistency. - Some additional touch-ups Closes #7688
2021-09-09 04:55:58 +08:00
CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH \- Unix domain socket
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
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.SH SYNOPSIS
docs: consistent manpage SYNOPSIS Make all libcurl related options use .nf (no fill) for the SYNOPSIS section - for consistent look. roffit then renders that section using <pre> (monospace font) in html for the website. Extended manpage-syntax (test 1173) with a basic check for it. Closes #8062
2021-11-26 21:20:18 +08:00
.nf
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
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#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH, char *path);
docs: consistent manpage SYNOPSIS Make all libcurl related options use .nf (no fill) for the SYNOPSIS section - for consistent look. roffit then renders that section using <pre> (monospace font) in html for the website. Extended manpage-syntax (test 1173) with a basic check for it. Closes #8062
2021-11-26 21:20:18 +08:00
.fi
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
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.SH DESCRIPTION
code/docs: Use Unix rather than UNIX to avoid use of the trademark Use Unix when generically writing about Unix based systems as UNIX is the trademark and should only be used in a particular product's name.
2014-12-27 04:45:21 +08:00
Enables the use of Unix domain sockets as connection endpoint and sets the path
to \fIpath\fP. If \fIpath\fP is NULL, then Unix domain sockets are disabled. An
opts: fix CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH formatting Add .nf and .fi such that the code gets wrapped in a pre on the web. Fixed grammar, fixed formatting of the "See also" items. Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-12-05 06:46:51 +08:00
empty string will result in an error at some point, it will not disable use of
code/docs: Use Unix rather than UNIX to avoid use of the trademark Use Unix when generically writing about Unix based systems as UNIX is the trademark and should only be used in a particular product's name.
2014-12-27 04:45:21 +08:00
Unix domain sockets.
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-11-28 06:59:25 +08:00
s/cURL/curl The tool was never called cURL, only the project. But even so, we have more and more over time switched to just use lower case.
2016-10-18 19:59:54 +08:00
When enabled, curl will connect to the Unix domain socket instead of
opts: fix CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH formatting Add .nf and .fi such that the code gets wrapped in a pre on the web. Fixed grammar, fixed formatting of the "See also" items. Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-12-05 06:46:51 +08:00
establishing a TCP connection to a host. Since no TCP connection is created,
s/cURL/curl The tool was never called cURL, only the project. But even so, we have more and more over time switched to just use lower case.
2016-10-18 19:59:54 +08:00
curl does not need to resolve the DNS hostname in the URL.
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-11-28 06:59:25 +08:00
The maximum path length on Cygwin, Linux and Solaris is 107. On other platforms
opts: fix CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH formatting Add .nf and .fi such that the code gets wrapped in a pre on the web. Fixed grammar, fixed formatting of the "See also" items. Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-12-05 06:46:51 +08:00
it might be even less.
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-11-28 06:59:25 +08:00
opt-docs: verify man page sections + order In every libcurl option man page there are now 8 mandatory sections that must use the right name in the correct order and test 1173 verifies this. Only 14 man pages needed adjustments. The sections and the order is as follows: - NAME - SYNOPSIS - DESCRIPTION - PROTOCOLS - EXAMPLE - AVAILABILITY - RETURN VALUE - SEE ALSO Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson Closes #7656
2021-09-01 16:26:36 +08:00
Proxy and TCP options such as \fICURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY(3)\fP are not
supported. Proxy options such as \fICURLOPT_PROXY(3)\fP have no effect either
as these are TCP-oriented, and asking a proxy server to connect to a certain
Unix domain socket is not possible.
docs: Add note about libcurl copying strings to CURLOPT_* manpages Closes #1169
2016-12-21 21:48:35 +08:00
The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
option.
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-11-28 06:59:25 +08:00
.SH DEFAULT
code/docs: Use Unix rather than UNIX to avoid use of the trademark Use Unix when generically writing about Unix based systems as UNIX is the trademark and should only be used in a particular product's name.
2014-12-27 04:45:21 +08:00
Default is NULL, meaning that no Unix domain sockets are used.
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-11-28 06:59:25 +08:00
.SH PROTOCOLS
CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3: remove nginx reference, add see also Closes #7656
2021-09-02 15:21:27 +08:00
All protocols except for FILE and FTP are supported in theory. HTTP, IMAP,
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-11-28 06:59:25 +08:00
POP3 and SMTP should in particular work (including their SSL/TLS variants).
.SH EXAMPLE
CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3: remove nginx reference, add see also Closes #7656
2021-09-02 15:21:27 +08:00
Given that you have an HTTP server running listening on /tmp/httpd.sock, you
docs: fix typos Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2503
2018-04-18 03:17:57 +08:00
can request an HTTP resource with:
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-11-28 06:59:25 +08:00
opts: fix CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH formatting Add .nf and .fi such that the code gets wrapped in a pre on the web. Fixed grammar, fixed formatting of the "See also" items. Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-12-05 06:46:51 +08:00
.nf
CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3: remove nginx reference, add see also Closes #7656
2021-09-02 15:21:27 +08:00
curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH, "/tmp/httpd.sock");
opt-docs: verify man page sections + order In every libcurl option man page there are now 8 mandatory sections that must use the right name in the correct order and test 1173 verifies this. Only 14 man pages needed adjustments. The sections and the order is as follows: - NAME - SYNOPSIS - DESCRIPTION - PROTOCOLS - EXAMPLE - AVAILABILITY - RETURN VALUE - SEE ALSO Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson Closes #7656
2021-09-01 16:26:36 +08:00
curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost/");
opts: fix CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH formatting Add .nf and .fi such that the code gets wrapped in a pre on the web. Fixed grammar, fixed formatting of the "See also" items. Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-12-05 06:46:51 +08:00
.fi
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-11-28 06:59:25 +08:00
opt-docs: verify man page sections + order In every libcurl option man page there are now 8 mandatory sections that must use the right name in the correct order and test 1173 verifies this. Only 14 man pages needed adjustments. The sections and the order is as follows: - NAME - SYNOPSIS - DESCRIPTION - PROTOCOLS - EXAMPLE - AVAILABILITY - RETURN VALUE - SEE ALSO Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson Closes #7656
2021-09-01 16:26:36 +08:00
If you are on Linux and somehow have a need for paths larger than 107 bytes,
you could use the proc filesystem to bypass the limitation:
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-11-28 06:59:25 +08:00
opts: fix CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH formatting Add .nf and .fi such that the code gets wrapped in a pre on the web. Fixed grammar, fixed formatting of the "See also" items. Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-12-05 06:46:51 +08:00
.nf
opt-docs: verify man page sections + order In every libcurl option man page there are now 8 mandatory sections that must use the right name in the correct order and test 1173 verifies this. Only 14 man pages needed adjustments. The sections and the order is as follows: - NAME - SYNOPSIS - DESCRIPTION - PROTOCOLS - EXAMPLE - AVAILABILITY - RETURN VALUE - SEE ALSO Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson Closes #7656
2021-09-01 16:26:36 +08:00
int dirfd = open(long_directory_path_to_socket, O_DIRECTORY | O_RDONLY);
char path[108];
CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3: remove nginx reference, add see also Closes #7656
2021-09-02 15:21:27 +08:00
snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/proc/self/fd/%d/httpd.sock", dirfd);
opt-docs: verify man page sections + order In every libcurl option man page there are now 8 mandatory sections that must use the right name in the correct order and test 1173 verifies this. Only 14 man pages needed adjustments. The sections and the order is as follows: - NAME - SYNOPSIS - DESCRIPTION - PROTOCOLS - EXAMPLE - AVAILABILITY - RETURN VALUE - SEE ALSO Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson Closes #7656
2021-09-01 16:26:36 +08:00
curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH, path);
/* Be sure to keep dirfd valid until you discard the handle */
opts: fix CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH formatting Add .nf and .fi such that the code gets wrapped in a pre on the web. Fixed grammar, fixed formatting of the "See also" items. Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-12-05 06:46:51 +08:00
.fi
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-11-28 06:59:25 +08:00
.SH AVAILABILITY
opt-manpages: use 'Added in' instead of 'Since' Closes #7913
2021-10-27 17:45:26 +08:00
Added in 7.40.0.
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 <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-11-28 06:59:25 +08:00
.SH RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.3: remove nginx reference, add see also Closes #7656
2021-09-02 15:21:27 +08:00
.BR CURLOPT_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET "(3), "
opts: fix CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH formatting Add .nf and .fi such that the code gets wrapped in a pre on the web. Fixed grammar, fixed formatting of the "See also" items. Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
2014-12-05 06:46:51 +08:00
.BR CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION "(3), " unix "(7), "
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