The common use-case for Kestrel in production will be behind a reverse proxy such as Nginx. In cases where the reverse proxy is located on the same machine as the application, connecting via a UNIX socket is more efficient than a TCP socket, as it avoids going through the network layer. Accessing 127.0.0.1 through TCP still needs to initiate a TCP connection and perform handshaking, checksumming, etc, all of which is avoided by using UNIX sockets.
- Moved TCP-specific stuff from Listener into new TcpListener class (same with ListenerPrimary and ListenerSecondary)
- Made Listener abstract
- Created new PipeListener. Note that while the use case is for UNIX sockets, this is called "Pipe" in uv, so I've called this "PipeListener" so the terminology is consistant
- Uses "unix" URL scheme to determine whether to use socket. "http://127.0.0.1:5000" is for listening via TCP while "unix:///var/run/kestrel-test.sock" is for listening via UNIX socket
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Stephen Halter
Daniel Lo Nigro