Running on Unix domain socket

[gioboske]

When running in native mode, it could be useful to run NiceGUI server over Unix domain socket, instead of localhost. For example, to support access control using file permissions in a multi-users system.

uvicorn already allows to bind to a Unix domain socket (UDS), so I guess it is a matter of make pywebview communicating with a server running over UDS. Something similar to send requests with curl by using --unix-socket <path> option.

Some time ago I've opened a similar request on pywebview repository (r0x0r/pywebview#1393), but it is not planned to implement this feature, at least in the near feature.

As far as I know, there is no standard url scheme for UDS. In fact, similar feature request for Chromium lead to a WONTFIX also because of the lack of a standard url scheme (just as reference, here the feature request for Chromium and a similar discussion on Bugzilla).

Maybe, someone (more skilled than me) could propose a clever way to proxy all NiceGUI/pywebview connections to the Unix socket.

[rodja]

You are right, it would be great to have this this feature. As far as I know, pywebview uses a standard browser like Chromium to render the content.
If you could somehow proxy the connection to a port, the benefits of not having a port would be lost...