Server - Listen to unix socket

[Guest plexman]

AFAIK Emby Server on .NET Core uses kestrel http server, I've seen on the Microsoft documentation (just reading) of the kestrel server that it is posible to bind to an Unix socket to improve performance with reverse proxies such as Nginx. I'm wondering (I'm not a developer) if this is easy done or would be much nonsense effort to implement it. PHP-FPM for example uses a Unix socket with Nginx.

 

Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/servers/kestrel?tabs=aspnetcore2x (Bind to an Unix socket)

 

A good location to bind it would be /var/run

 

Thanks team!

[Luke 37119]

We actually are not using kestrel for now, we are using a home grown socket-based implementation. I read that in .net core 2.1 kestrel will be rewritten to move away from libuv and use sockets instead, and the code is actually very similar to what we're already doing, so I think we are doing it in the best possible way.

[Guest plexman]

Thanks a lot for the explanation. You are doing an amazing job, both with the software and support!