Unix Domain Sockets for Windows

[pvorb]

With v5.0 came the support for Unix Domain Sockets for http servers. As far as I know these only work on Unix systems, where UDSs are natively supported. When I try to listen to a socket on Windows, I get an EACCESS error, no matter what I do.

Would it be possible to use Sockets on Windows too using the Winsock API? Maybe either Node.js or libuv could abstract them to a common interface.

Thoughts?

[igorzi]

@pvorb can you be more specific about "When I try to listen to a socket on Windows, I get a EACCESS error"?

There's support for named pipes. You could create a named pipe server, and listen on it. See https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/test/simple/test-pipe-stream.js.

[seth4618]

I can be more specific. If you name the pipe 'echo.sock' you get an eacces error. I looked in common.js referred to above and used the name in there and it worked. Some documentation about what names are legal would be helpful. Or, maybe some kind of function to make named pipes universal across systems, e.g.,

exports.cleanPipeName = function(str) {
if (process.platform === 'win32') {
str = str.replace(/^//, '');
str = str.replace(///g, '-');
return '\.\pipe'+str;
} else {
return str;
}
};

[KiNgMaR]

This issue should be merged into the discussion in #3558.