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Re: Windows named pipe

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 22:41:08 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, Jeff MAURY via curl-users wrote:

> I am trying to use curl to send to a Windows named pipe but I was never
> successful. I used --unix-socket but I can't figure out the value to be
> given to that argument.

--unix-socket is for unix domain sockets, they are not the same thing as named
pipes. Similar purpose, but different ways.

A unix domain socket exists as an entry in the file system so you specify the
path that is the unix domain socket. A named pipe does not work like that.

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Received on 2023-10-09