Support for unix sockets in server and client

[alex1891]

Hi,
is it possible to use unix domain sockets for server binding and client connections?
If not is it planned to integrate this in future?

Thank you!
Best reguards
Alex

[ben-crowhurst]

We don't have this in the roadmap currently. Can you flesh out the use case? Why are locally bound sockets not sufficient?

[alex1891]

locally bound sockets are reachable from every process that can access the localhost - unix domain sockets can easily be protected with file permissions. The other reason is, that we don´t have to take care about free ports for additional services.
The device is a embedded realtime device that uses a microservice architecture so workarounds like docker are not possible.

[alex1891]

Hi @ben-crowhurst , are their any news regarding this topic?

[ben-crowhurst]

@alex1891 This feature will make it into the 5.0 release. We're in the process of refactoring the API to allow transports layers to be injected into the service.

[alex1891]

Hey @ben-crowhurst ,
what is the current state of this topic?
I thought implementation was planned for 07/2020?

[albrecht-j]

Hi @ben-crowhurst
are there any news regarding the topic of @alex1891?
I am also interested.

Thanks

[ben-crowhurst]

This has yet to be implemented in the public domain. The continual delay of mainlining ASIO to std::networking is hindering 5.0.

Why are we waiting for std::networking? so we don't have to implement multiple versions for various operating systems.