Re: Using a socket to connect to sql

From: Murray S. Kucherawy <msk_at_blackops.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 23:30:34 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Connor Prussin wrote:
> Is it possible to use a socket to connect opendkim to mysql? I see in
> the man pages that:

I'm assuming you're talking about UNIX domain sockets, not sockets in
general?

>> No value within the DSN may contain any of the six punctuation
>> characters (":", "/", "_at_", "+", "?" and "=") used to separate portions of
>> the DSN from each other.
>
> So this seems to imply that a path would be unacceptable anywhere in the dsn
> specification. Can anyone clarify, or point me to a message in the archives
> or a feature request for using a unix socket rather than a tcp connection?

At the moment, you can only specify a hostname/IP address and optional
port. Please open a feature request to get this loosened (somehow) to
allow UNIX domain sockets.

-MSK
Received on Thu Jul 10 2014 - 06:30:57 PST

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