Does jupyter server support unix sockets?

[goanpeca]

From Discourse:

@mlucool
Hi, Does jupyterlab support unix sockets? If so, how do I configure it? It seems Notebook supports them (https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/changelog.html#release-6-1-0) and tornado does too (tornadoweb/tornado#2671). If this feature is missing, which is the right repo to log an issue for this, jupyter_server?

[kevin-bates]

Hi Gonzalo,
The sockets PR is on the list of pull requests to port over from Notebook - time just hasn't been very cooperative.

Since this is purely a server issue, I took the liberty of updating the title since I believe you meant to say 'jupyter server' anyway. (If not, you could have unix sockets in jupyterlab by using lab 2.x since that still uses the notebook server if I'm not mistaken.)

[goanpeca]

Thanks for the update @kevin-bates

I believe you meant to say 'jupyter server'

Yes :-p

[PromyLOPh]

Is anyone working on porting the feature from Notebook right now? We’re stuck on JupyterLab v2, because v3.0 essentially removed this feature.

[kevin-bates]

Good point on the perceived regression issue. I believe this was being worked on (on the side) but, IIRC, a snag was hit relative to converting the tests to pytest.

Looking at the list of PRs to port from Notebook, it looks like this effort would consist of the following...

jupyter/notebook#4835 (includes jupyter/notebook#5650, jupyter/notebook#5451, jupyter/notebook#5769)

[PromyLOPh]

Is there a branch with the current progress somewhere? Maybe we can figure this out together.

[Zsailer]

See #525.

[Zsailer]

Merged in #525. 🚀

[PromyLOPh]

That was quick, thank you very much!