Supporting non-TCP/IP transports

[Phil Lello <ph...@dunlop-lello.uk>]

Hi all,

I'm looking at patching httpd/libapr to support non-TCP transports.

Specifically, the transports I'd like add are:

- UNIX-domain sockets
- File-system pipes (and pipe-like devices - e.g. serial ports)

Would there be interest in adding these to core?

Phil

Re: Supporting non-TCP/IP transports

[Phil Lello <ph...@dunlop-lello.uk>]

Ignore my last post - presumably UDS is short for UNIX-domain socket!

If we are going down a plugable protocol route, that I'd like to see the
option to use something a lot more complicated that a socket - e.g. a
connection to a remote SSHD / socket forward via libssh or similar.

Phil

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Phil Lello <ph...@dunlop-lello.uk> wrote:

> Did you mean UDP, or do I need to add UDS to my research list?
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Jim Jagielski <ji...@jagunet.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, right now httpd (in 2.4) can proxy over UDS... I have
>> been thinking about adding UDS support to Listen as well.
>>
>> > On Jul 18, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Phil Lello <ph...@dunlop-lello.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm looking at patching httpd/libapr to support non-TCP transports.
>> >
>> > Specifically, the transports I'd like add are:
>> >
>> > - UNIX-domain sockets
>> > - File-system pipes (and pipe-like devices - e.g. serial ports)
>> >
>> > Would there be interest in adding these to core?
>> >
>> > Phil
>>
>>
>

Re: Supporting non-TCP/IP transports

[Phil Lello <ph...@dunlop-lello.uk>]

Did you mean UDP, or do I need to add UDS to my research list?

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Jim Jagielski <ji...@jagunet.com> wrote:

> Well, right now httpd (in 2.4) can proxy over UDS... I have
> been thinking about adding UDS support to Listen as well.
>
> > On Jul 18, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Phil Lello <ph...@dunlop-lello.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm looking at patching httpd/libapr to support non-TCP transports.
> >
> > Specifically, the transports I'd like add are:
> >
> > - UNIX-domain sockets
> > - File-system pipes (and pipe-like devices - e.g. serial ports)
> >
> > Would there be interest in adding these to core?
> >
> > Phil
>
>

Re: Supporting non-TCP/IP transports

[Jim Jagielski <ji...@jaguNET.com>]

Well, right now httpd (in 2.4) can proxy over UDS... I have
been thinking about adding UDS support to Listen as well.

> On Jul 18, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Phil Lello <ph...@dunlop-lello.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking at patching httpd/libapr to support non-TCP transports.
> 
> Specifically, the transports I'd like add are:
> 
> - UNIX-domain sockets
> - File-system pipes (and pipe-like devices - e.g. serial ports)
> 
> Would there be interest in adding these to core?
> 
> Phil

Re: Supporting non-TCP/IP transports

["Mikhail T." <mi...@aldan.algebra.com>]

On 18.07.2015 15:43, Kean Johnston wrote:
> On 7/18/2015 9:25 PM, Phil Lello wrote:
>> - UNIX-domain sockets
> I personally think this could be very useful.
"Me too". In particular, it is fairly common these days for
Varnish-proxy to run on the same server as the actual Apache. Having the
two communicate via a socket would be a win...

    -mi

Re: Supporting non-TCP/IP transports

[Kean Johnston <ke...@gmail.com>]

On 7/18/2015 9:25 PM, Phil Lello wrote:
> - UNIX-domain sockets
I personally think this could be very useful. However I am mainly a lurker 
here so assign the appropriate weight to that opinion.