1CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH(3)curl_easy_setopt optionsCURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH(3)
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6 CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH - Unix domain socket
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9 #include <curl/curl.h>
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11 CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH, char *path);
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14 Enables the use of Unix domain sockets as connection endpoint and sets
15 the path to path. If path is NULL, then Unix domain sockets are dis‐
16 abled. An empty string will result in an error at some point, it will
17 not disable use of Unix domain sockets.
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19 When enabled, curl will connect to the Unix domain socket instead of
20 establishing a TCP connection to a host. Since no TCP connection is
21 created, curl does not need to resolve the DNS hostname in the URL.
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23 The maximum path length on Cygwin, Linux and Solaris is 107. On other
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26 Proxy and TCP options such as CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY(3) are not supported.
27 Proxy options such as CURLOPT_PROXY(3) have no effect either as these
28 are TCP-oriented, and asking a proxy server to connect to a certain
29 Unix domain socket is not possible.
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35 Default is NULL, meaning that no Unix domain sockets are used.
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38 All protocols except for FILE and FTP are supported in theory. HTTP,
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46 curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH, "/tmp/httpd.sock");
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66 CURLOPT_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET(3), CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION(3),
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71libcurl 7.82.0 November 26, 2021 CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH(3)