Le 01/12/2010 07:47, Basile Starynkevitch a écrit : > I don't know fur sure, and I believe it should require some patch. > > 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. > > I would find extremely useful if there existed (on some Linux browsers) > a URL scheme for that. Imagine if opening > unixsock:/tmp/somedir/socket//goo/bar?v=x > would talk HTTP protocol to a unix socket /tmp/somedir/socket and GET > the /goo/bar page with parameter v=x > > I am not familiar with FireFox internals to implement that. I heard it > might even be implemented as a FireFox plugin (but I am not sure). > > Christophe, do you have such browser extensions in mind, or are you > only willing to do HTTP on sockets programmatically, outside of any > browser and user web interface? > > Cheers. >
I use nginx as a proxy pop and imap. In this mode, nginx needs a http server for user authentication. The HTTP server is on the same machine as nginx, and I'd like to use a unix socket rather than TCP. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
