Qt HTTP Request over a Unix Socket

Asked Feb 07 '18 at 02:53

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I am using Qt5 QNetworkAccessManager to create an HTTP request. However I want to be able to connect to a unix socket instead of a http://hostname:port/. I investigated some workarounds for this problem, and tried inheriting QNetworkAccessManager, and override the createRequest virtual method, but the problem is that most of the logic for postProcess is inside the QNetworkReplyHttpImpl derived class which is fairly huge.

I have some requirements

avoid touching the Qt5 SDK
avoid copying too much code from the QNetworkReplyHttpImpl and implement bare bones QNetworkReply abstract class and to use the QLocalSocket.
qhttpclient seems like an option but it will not glue nicely with the rest of the Qt5 classes, or rather I would need some more glue logic to fit with the rest of my application.

Any suggestions?

edited Feb 07 '18 at 20:40

asked Feb 07 '18 at 02:53

WinterS

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A question with a similar wish: [HTTP over AF_UNIX: HTTP connection to unix socket](https://stackoverflow.com/q/14771172/94687) – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev Oct 30 '18 at 11:52
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Thanks, I have solved it though by subclassing QNetworkAccessManager and QNetworkReply – WinterS Nov 16 '18 at 18:00
Is your subclass to big for sharing? I was thinking into opening a local TCP socket (with QTcpServer) and then proxying it to a QLocalSocket – Daniel Nicoletti May 14 '20 at 15:04

Qt HTTP Request over a Unix Socket

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