Re: Windows named pipe

Jeff MAURY via curl-users <[email protected]>
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So what are the switches to use to send a request to a Windows named pipe
using curl ?

On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 10:41 PM Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, Jeff MAURY via curl-users wrote:
>
> > I am trying to use curl to send to a Windows named pipe but I was never
> > successful. I used --unix-socket but I can't figure out the value to be
> > given to that argument.
>
> --unix-socket is for unix domain sockets, they are not the same thing as
> named
> pipes. Similar purpose, but different ways.
>
> A unix domain socket exists as an entry in the file system so you specify
> the
> path that is the unix domain socket. A named pipe does not work like that.
>
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