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Description:

parsysrequestsunixsocket 0.3.2

Use requests to talk HTTP via a UNIX domain socket

Usage

Explicit
You can use it by instantiating a special Session object:
import json

import requests_unixsocket

session = requests_unixsocket.Session()

r = session.get('http+unix://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/info')
registry_config = r.json()['RegistryConfig']
print(json.dumps(registry_config, indent=4))

Implicit (monkeypatching)
Monkeypatching allows you to use the functionality in this module, while making
minimal changes to your code. Note that in the above example we had to
instantiate a special requests_unixsocket.Session object and call the
get method on that object. Calling requests.get(url) (the easiest way
to use requests and probably very common), would not work. But we can make it
work by doing monkeypatching.
You can monkeypatch globally:
import requests_unixsocket

requests_unixsocket.monkeypatch()

r = requests.get('http+unix://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/info')
assert r.status_code == 200
or you can do it temporarily using a context manager:
import requests_unixsocket

with requests_unixsocket.monkeypatch():
r = requests.get('http+unix://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/info')
assert r.status_code == 200

Abstract namespace sockets
To connect to an abstract namespace
socket
(Linux only), prefix the name with a NULL byte (i.e.: 0) - e.g.:
import requests_unixsocket

session = requests_unixsocket.Session()
res = session.get('http+unix://\0test_socket/get')
print(res.text)
For an example program that illustrates this, see
examples/abstract_namespace.py in the git repo. Since abstract namespace
sockets are specific to Linux, the program will only work on Linux.

See also

https://github.com/httpie/httpie-unixsocket - a plugin for HTTPie that allows you to interact with UNIX domain sockets