Using UNIX sockets

[Nivertius]

Hello.

rtGui v0.2.7 can only connect to rTorrent trought RPC over HTTP. But
rTorrent can also create local UNIX socket to connect to. With PHPs
capability of opening these socket I wrote patch for rtGui to do so.
Basically, with it you can set 'scgi_local' in rtorrent config file,
set $rpc_connect='unix:///path/to/socket' and viola! rtgui without
configuring apache or lighttpd to mount RPC.
Patch for it is here: http://overlord.uaznia.net/misc/rtgui-0.2.7-unix-socket.diff

Thanks for doing this gui. :)

[Sheldon Els]

Wow dude, that is very nice. A bit more secure too :)

[Sam Redfern]

55 points for ultra cool!

- Sam Redfern

[llamaX]

Very interesting. However, strlen seems silly when it's a fixed
length:

if(substr ($rpc_connect, 0, strlen('http://')) == 'http://') {

[shezq23]

I would change

$result = fread($socket, 65536);

to

if (($result = stream_get_contents($socket)) == FALSE) { .. error
handler .. }

fread can only read so much into memory as defined in php.ini. I have
about 50-100 torrents in rtorrent and I would only get partial
responses from the response.
stream_get_contents reads everything in the socket buffer and does its
own memory management apparently.

And kudos to this patch, I tested it, it definitely works better than
with lighty.

[Nivertius]

Oh my, thanks a lot for that, that's why my extremaly large SG-1
torrent didn't show up.
I don't know how rtGui handles errors, but fread has been replaced to
stream_get_contents in my patch [you just posted a patch to a
patch ;-)]
Thanks again.