How to access a Unix Socket with socketio-python

[lupaulus]

Hello, I'm searching in the documentation a way to connect as Client to a Unix Socket

My Server :

def __init__():
        self.sio = socketio.AsyncServer(async_mode="aiohttp")
        self.app = web.Application()
        self.sio.attach(self.app)

    async def run(self) -> None:

        path_to_unix_socket = '/tmp/websockets.web.sock'
        
        if os.path.exists(path_to_unix_socket):
            os.remove(path_to_unix_socket)

        # Setup Unix Socket
        runner = web.AppRunner(self.app)
        await runner.setup()
        site = web.UnixSite(runner, path_to_unix_socket)
        await site.start()

        while not self.closed:
            await asyncio.sleep(1)

        _logger.info("(Websocket) Cleaning up...")
        await runner.cleanup()

Thanks !

[miguelgrinberg]

@lupaulus I assume the question is about using the Python Socket.IO client for this? This is currently not a supported option, just because this package uses URLs to make connections and it currently has no knowledge of how to form HTTP and WebSocket URLs that reference a UNIX domain socket. I suppose this is possible to add, but I honestly don't know what URLs should look like, and if the third-party packages that I use for low-level HTTP and WebSocket connections support them.

[lupaulus]

@miguelgrinberg aiohttp have support for UNIX Socket,
For me if the URL, start with unix://, it need to be redirected to a UNIX socket and can be handled the same as HTTP/Websockets.

Actually, I use a reverse proxy and forward it to the UNIX socket, that work.

[miguelgrinberg]

aiohttp supports UNIX domain sockets, but it isn't clear from their docs that they support unix:// URLs, and if they do, how do they specify a WebSocket URL vs. an HTTP URL.