Re: vsock support

Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.library
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 3 Apr 2025, snek via curl-library wrote:

> Sorry I think there's been a misunderstanding. vsock sockets are roughly 
> analogous to unix sockets in terms of their supported behavior. Like with 
> unix sockets, curl could act as a client for the various http protocols that 
> it supports. I am running an http server on a vsock socket, and I often use 
> curl to interact with http servers, so I thought it would be convenient to 
> support vsock sockets.

I think an existing use case such as this is a proper motivation for us to 
consider supporting vsock. Sounds fun!

Is the vsock support offered in a "mainstream" http server or are you running 
something custom?

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