Le Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 07:47:36AM +0100, Basile Starynkevitch ecrivait : > However, I am interested to understand why you are asking that. > > In particular, at least under Linux, I know unfortunately no Web > browser (or other HTTP client) able to send HTTP requests on an Unix > socket.
REST is not a browser-only protocol and has become a standard way for applications to communicate. Also, proxies and web servers like Nginx can accept HTTP connections and pass them to a backend on a Unix socket (still using HTTP). For instance my Simple COMET server (https://github.com/jedisct1/Simple-Comet-Server) uses this in order to provide long-polling to Nginx. The fastest way to use it is to run it on the same server as Nginx, on a Unix socket. But the protocol remains HTTP. -- Frank Denis - j [at] pureftpd.org - http://00f.net - Twitter: @jedisct1 *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
