- Add new option CURLOPT_DEFAULT_PROTOCOL to allow specifying a default
protocol for schemeless URLs.
- Add new tool option --proto-default to expose
CURLOPT_DEFAULT_PROTOCOL.
In the case of schemeless URLs libcurl will behave in this way:
When the option is used libcurl will use the supplied default.
When the option is not used, libcurl will follow its usual plan of
guessing from the hostname and falling back to 'http'.
The ability to do HTTP requests over a UNIX domain socket has been
requested before, in Apr 2008 [0][1] and Sep 2010 [2]. While a
discussion happened, no patch seems to get through. I decided to give it
a go since I need to test a nginx HTTP server which listens on a UNIX
domain socket.
One patch [3] seems to make it possible to use the
CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION function to gain a UNIX domain socket.
Another person wrote a Go program which can do HTTP over a UNIX socket
for Docker[4] which uses a special URL scheme (though the name contains
cURL, it has no relation to the cURL library).
This patch considers support for UNIX domain sockets at the same level
as HTTP proxies / IPv6, it acts as an intermediate socket provider and
not as a separate protocol. Since this feature affects network
operations, a new feature flag was added ("unix-sockets") with a
corresponding CURL_VERSION_UNIX_SOCKETS macro.
A new CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH option is added and documented. This
option enables UNIX domain sockets support for all requests on the
handle (replacing IP sockets and skipping proxies).
A new configure option (--enable-unix-sockets) and CMake option
(ENABLE_UNIX_SOCKETS) can disable this optional feature. Note that I
deliberately did not mark this feature as advanced, this is a
feature/component that should easily be available.
[0]: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-04/0279.html
[1]: http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/04/14/http-over-unix-domain-sockets/
[2]: http://sourceforge.net/p/curl/feature-requests/53/
[3]: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-04/0361.html
[4]: https://github.com/Soulou/curl-unix-socket
Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
With all the new individual option man pages created, this now refers to
each separate one instead of duplicaing the info. Also makes this page
easier to overview.
Updated the docs to clarify and the code accordingly, with test 1528 to
verify:
When CURLHEADER_SEPARATE is set and libcurl is asked to send a request
to a proxy but it isn't CONNECT, then _both_ header lists
(CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER and CURLOPT_PROXYHEADER) will be used since the
single request is then made for both the proxy and the server.
The list was out of date and the paragraph already refers to the
CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH explanation. All the auth bits are explained properly
there.
It also removes the ambiguity for what the "added" phrase refers to.
This change based on pull request #85 on github
URL: https://github.com/bagder/curl/pull/85
Reported-by: gnawhleinad
This fixes two markup typos I noticed in curl_easy_setopt.3. (The use
of bold vs. italics seems a bit inconsistent in that page, but it should
at least be valid man syntax.)
