Is there a way to serve a webpage from a locally running tcp server listening on a unix domain socket instead of localhost:<port>?
something like:
file:///tmp/webpage.sock
my only real motivation is to avoid port conflicts in the 2000-5000 range.
Best Answer
Yes
It is easy to serve it.
No
But harder to get the client to use it.
An alternative
However because you told me why you are doing it, I have another solution.
You want several web-servers to serve to only the local machine, but not have conflicts of port. It may also be nice if they all used the same port number.
Loopback addresses are
127.0.0.0/8That is127.x.x.xnot just127.0.0.1.Therefore use a different IP address for each server. E.g.
127.0.0.2,127.0.0.3...