Re: [Help-gnutls] gnutls with unix domain (local) sockets

[Arturo Martinez Rubio]

Well, basically the benefit is that UNIX sockets are supposed to have better performance that TCP sockets. In my specific case, the applications which will communicate using TLS are running in the same machine.

Thanks for your answer,
Arturo

2008/9/29 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden>

Arturo Martinez Rubio wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Does anyone know if gnutls works over unix domain sockets?
> For example:
>
> sock = socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
> ...
> gnutls_transport_set_ptr(session, sock);
> ...

It does. What would be the benefit of such an operation though?