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Status Not under consideration
Workspace WebSphere Liberty
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 21, 2022

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Allow Liberty to bind to unix file sockets

Dear community, we do have many applications on a vast number of network interfaces (if/eth) per unix host. In case we need fail-over, we assign multiple ports per application (e.g. 8000, 8001 for application 'a' and 8002 for application 'b'). The same port(s) might be used for other applications on another interface. This way we can select applications by IP/Port or hostname/port. However, we also use IHS as a reverse proxy in front of Liberty Profile. In fact, we only need to bind IHS publicly to use the application. So we asked our unix department how we could bind Liberty to loopback addresses instead. While we would need multiple local (loopback) IPs to match the outgoing IPs (due to port reuse on other interfaces), they asked us if unix sockets were a valid option as well. Hence I am asking for Unix file socket support for both IHS and Liberty to avoid binding to a public interface and creating more loopback/127.x.x.x interfaces. I am not even sure HTTP over unix file sockets is even possible and feasible.
Idea priority Low
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    Graham Charters
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    |     Jan 21, 2022

    Thank you for the suggestion. The requirement does have merit, but looking at it with respect to our total backlog of requests we do not see sufficient interest in this enhancement to merit delivery any time in the foreseeable future. Given the unlikelihood that we would deliver this, we are declining the request rather than leaving it in an uncommitted state for an extended period of time. If you would like to discuss this decision further, please contact Graham Charters <charters@uk.ibm.com>.

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