Ben Boeckel

I've wanted "use a socket for HTTP requests" for a while because setting up a proxy on a port doesn't lock it down to just the current user. Not that...

Doing some research in how it is done elsewhere: - [Apache HTTP](http://apache-http-server.18135.x6.nabble.com/PATCH-mod-proxy-Unix-domain-socket-support-td4999082.html) it looks like `fcgi://socket=%2ftmp%2fphp-fpm.sock/local/htdocs/ ` is proposed. Though it seems that [actual support](https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54101#c24) may be `unix:///var/run/php-fpm.sock|fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000/srv/www/$1` - [NodeJS](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41177350/node-js-send-get-request-via-unix-socket/42388725#42388725)...

This also might not be a non-Windows thing in the future as well: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/12/19/af_unix-comes-to-windows/

I'll also note that Docker's socket talks HTTP.

I'm not seeing anything obvious in the docs. Do you have a link to the methods involved (or example code)?

There seems to be an upstream issue for it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/5741

What does it mean to `POST` to a `file://` URL? Would it just emulate a `405 Method Not Supported` error for any non-`GET` call? What would `HEAD` return?

Huh, looks like `HEAD` returns `stat` info: ``` Content-Length: 123 Accept-ranges: bytes Last-Modified: Thu, 08 May 2014 19:44:22 GMT ``` `POST` just has an automatic closed connection. `GET` returns the...

I think Temporary Containers handles point number 2 fairly well. https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers It doesn't "link the domain", but it does have configuration for when to make new containers.

> Is there any workaround until this feature is implemented? You can set a site to always open in a given container. There's a containers icon in my URL bar...