CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH(3)				     curl_easy_setopt options				       CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH(3)

NAME

       CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH - set Unix domain socket

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH, char *path);

DESCRIPTION

       Enables the use of Unix domain sockets as connection endpoint and sets the path to path. If path is NULL, then Unix domain sockets are dis-
       abled. An empty string will result in an error at some point, it will not disable use of Unix domain sockets.

       When enabled, curl will connect to the Unix domain socket instead of establishing a TCP connection to a host. Since no  TCP  connection	is
       created, curl does not need to resolve the DNS hostname in the URL.

       The maximum path length on Cygwin, Linux and Solaris is 107. On other platforms it might be even less.

       Proxy  and  TCP	options  such as CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY(3) are not supported. Proxy options such as CURLOPT_PROXY(3) have no effect either as
       these are TCP-oriented, and asking a proxy server to connect to a certain Unix domain socket is not possible.

       The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.

DEFAULT

       Default is NULL, meaning that no Unix domain sockets are used.

PROTOCOLS

       All protocols except for file:// and FTP are supported in theory. HTTP, IMAP, POP3 and SMTP should  in  particular  work  (including  their
       SSL/TLS variants).

EXAMPLE

       Given that you have an nginx server running, listening on /tmp/nginx.sock, you can request a HTTP resource with:

	   curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH, "/tmp/nginx.sock");
	   curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost/");

       If you are on Linux and somehow have a need for paths larger than 107 bytes, you could use the proc filesystem to bypass the limitation:

	   int dirfd = open(long_directory_path_to_socket, O_DIRECTORY | O_RDONLY);
	   char path[108];
	   snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/proc/self/fd/%d/nginx.sock", dirfd);
	   curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH, path);
	   /* Be sure to keep dirfd valid until you discard the handle */

AVAILABILITY

       Since 7.40.0.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

SEE ALSO

       CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION(3), unix(7),

libcurl 7.54.0							 December 21, 2016				       CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH(3)