Unix socket listener

[tchbr]

Hello again!

I need to use trailbase with unix sockets. Right know this is not possible so I'm doing something dirty that looks like:

/usr/bin/socat UNIX-LISTEN:/run/socks/trailbase.sock,fork,mode=0777 TCP:localhost:4000

To avoid doing such horrible things, would you be interested in a socket listener ability? If so I'll gladly do it :)

[ignatz]

Hi there again @tchbr , certainly something one could do.

May I be curious first? I would like to understand the use-case better. Exposing an HTTP server via a UDS isn't a thing that I have come across before. Especially if you'd put a reverse proxy in front, it becomes almost an implementation detail.

[tchbr]

Nice! I may look at it then and at some point come back with pull request.

I want trailbase to be behind a reverse proxy and I like reverse proxy to be isolated and talk to internal services through sockets only.

Mostly for security reasons (file system permissions, no access to network for services that don't need it, ability to put in pod/containers with no access to network but a single mount point for that sock file).

It's also good for performances reasons although I don't think the kernel + network drivers would be the bottleneck there (probably trailbase even though great performances ;) ) so for this part I'd just say I find it more elegant and integrated.