Use requests to talk HTTP via a UNIX domain socket
You can use it by instantiating a special Session
object:
import requests_unixsocket
session = requests_unixsocket.Session()
# Access /path/to/page from /tmp/profilesvc.sock
r = session.get('http+unix://%2Ftmp%2Fprofilesvc.sock/path/to/page')
assert r.status_code == 200
Monkeypatching allows you to use the functionality in this module, while making minimal changes to your code. Note that in the above example we had to instantiate a special requests_unixsocket.Session
object and call the get
method on that object. Calling requests.get(url)
(the easiest way to use requests and probably very common), would not work. But we can make it work by doing monkeypatching.
You can monkeypatch globally:
import requests_unixsocket
requests_unixsocket.monkeypatch()
# Access /path/to/page from /tmp/profilesvc.sock
r = requests.get('http+unix://%2Ftmp%2Fprofilesvc.sock/path/to/page')
assert r.status_code == 200
or you can do it temporarily using a context manager:
import requests_unixsocket
with requests_unixsocket.monkeypatch():
# Access /path/to/page from /tmp/profilesvc.sock
r = requests.get('http+unix://%2Ftmp%2Fprofilesvc.sock/path/to/page')
assert r.status_code == 200