That's simply wrong. Several widely used apps offer their REST API over unix domain sockets for security reasons, e.g. LXD, snapd, docker, podman, which are just four of the most commonly used applications in the Linux world. How ...hadmut (Hadmut Danisch)
Now this is almost four years old without any reaction at all. Has anyone ever taken any notice of this problem, which affects a lot of people which are those REST API frameworks? Or is ruby dead, and it's time to find a new language...hadmut (Hadmut Danisch)
Hi, the ruby lib tempfile is quite useful, but since it always deletes files once the object is garbage collected or the program terminates (or the program explicitely asks to remove the file) it is difficult to debug programs and to...hadmut (Hadmut Danisch)
Hi, meanwhile it's common and state of the art to offer rest apis not just over tcp/ip, but over unix domain sockets as well for machine-internal use and advanced security. Unfortunately net/http does not support unix domain soc...hadmut (Hadmut Danisch)
Any news on this? I was just trying to use the rest-client gem to connect to a unix domain socket, which isn't possible since the underlying net/http component does not accept unix domain URLs. Since offering rest-apis on unix-dom...hadmut (Hadmut Danisch)
Hi, I need to replace all occurences of & with \& in a String (generating LaTeX input). However, gsub has a problem with unescaping the \ character in the replacement string: irb(main):001:0> "a&b" => "a&b" irb(main):002:0>...hadmut (Hadmut Danisch)
Hi, the upgrade to ubuntu 12.04 came with an upgrade to ruby 1.9.3. Unfortunately, in recent 1.9.3 versions of ruby there's a bug in the ioctl function. E.g. if you want to do getbsz() on a block device and do a f.ioctl(0x800812...hadmut (Hadmut Danisch)
hadmut (Hadmut Danisch)02:24 PM Ruby Feature #17166: net/http not supporting unix domain sockets