That explains by it is not documented and the somewhat awkward syntax.
Will take care with future use cases. Thanks for the info!

El sáb., 2 feb. 2019 a las 12:52, Hiltjo Posthuma
(<hil...@codemadness.org>) escribió:
>
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 12:20:03PM +0100, Daniel Gracia wrote:
> > Hi there!
> >
> > httpdd FastCGI interface can connect seamlessly to a local TCP port,
> > but this is not documented on the man page.
> >
> > Went to the source and found the syntax to be a little awkward (maybe
> > a quick fix?). Anyway, allowed me running flask/flup/bottle pretty
> > straightforward.
> >
> > Regards!
> >
> > Index: usr.sbin/httpd/httpd.conf.5
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/httpd/httpd.conf.5,v
> > retrieving revision 1.101
> > diff -u -p -u -p -r1.101 httpd.conf.5
> > --- usr.sbin/httpd/httpd.conf.5 20 Jun 2018 16:43:05 -0000      1.101
> > +++ usr.sbin/httpd/httpd.conf.5 2 Feb 2019 11:03:48 -0000
> > @@ -278,12 +278,16 @@ will neither display nor generate a dire
> >  Enable FastCGI instead of serving files.
> >  The
> >  .Ar socket
> > -is a local path name within the
> > +can be a local path name within the
> >  .Xr chroot 2
> >  root directory of
> >  .Xr httpd 8
> > -and defaults to
> > -.Pa /run/slowcgi.sock .
> > +(defaults to
> > +.Pa /run/slowcgi.sock
> > +). Starting with colon,
> > +.Ar socket
> > +can specify a port number that will connect to INADDR_LOOPBACK
> > +address.
> >  .Pp
> >  The FastCGI handler will be given the following variables:
> >  .Pp
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Cool, I did not know httpd could do this. The commit (git mirror) says:
>
> "
> commit 2204991274ff67f80cfd592f8470cdaca7a906e9
> Author: reyk <r...@openbsd.org>
> Date:   Sat Aug 2 11:52:00 2014 +0000
>
>     Allow to specify a FastCGI TCP socket on localhost (eg. :9000).  Used
>     for debugging, you should prefer local UNIX sockets, but it helped to
>     find an issue that will be fixed with the next commit.
> "
>
> CVS server_fci.c rev 1.9:
> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_fcgi.c?rev=1.9&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>
> So maybe it was a debugging feature.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Hiltjo

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