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How to properly implement Node.js communication over Unix Domain sockets?
I'm debugging my implementation of an IPC between multithreaded node.js instances.
As datagram sockets are not supported natively, I use the default stream protocol, with simple application-level ...
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Calling open() on a Unix domain socket failed with error "No such device or address"
I'm trying to communicate between NodeJS and C program using named pipes in linux. My server program has written in NodeJS:
'use strict';
const net = require('net');
const pipename = '/tmp/pipe1';
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Messages are large, You may want to consider smaller messages. node-ipc and swift (OSX)
I have a node app that is trying to communicate with a swift application using a unix socket.
I am broadcasting a Message ever 3 seconds using the following code with node-ipc:
const ipc = require('...
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NodeJS net.Socket: `connect` vs `ready` event
I had hard time debugging a problem with my NodeJS' code today.
I have problems when I open two connections to the same unix socket (reasons though); and for unknown reasons, sometimes it works fine ...
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How to communicate locally between a Node.js (pref. Express module) server and a C++ application using IPC (Unix Domain Sockets)
I have one machine running simultaniously some C++ application and a Node.js server.
Use-case:
I want to be able to trigger my C++ application and make it pass some data (lets say a string) into a ...
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Example of c++ client and node.js server
I have a problem... I'm trying to connect my client written in c++ to my server written in nodejs but I couldn't do. How can i receive data in the server? With this code I receive the client ...
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Connecting to unix socket inside docker container using nodejs
I have written an app which connect to an already created unix.sock file and get some data from it. But I am getting EACCES error while try to connect. Error message is given below.
{ Error: connect ...
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Unable to communicate between Node.js domain socket server and C domain socket client on Linux
Here is the Node.js code:
net = require('net');
fs = require('fs');
serverSocketFile = '/tmp/_mediaComm';
if (fs.existsSync(serverSocketFile))
fs.unlinkSync(...
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Can i serve multiple ghost blog service without NGINX?
I'm using a web hosting service and I don't have permission to install NGINX, only listening on port 8080. so, I am looking for a way to use Unix Socket using Express. How can I solve this problem?
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Why does my Node.js server echo back everything I send to it from nc?
I am new to Node.js and I'm trying to learn by building a server that listens to a Unix-domain socket. I'm testing my server using 'nc' as a client. 'nc -U /var/run/ipc.sock' Everything is going ...
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Node.js - How to check if Unix Domain Socket exists in Node.js?
I am writing a docker client in Node.js. It must connect to unix domain socket /var/run/docker.sock if it exists or fallback to TCP socket, typically tcp://localhost:2375 (when client is running on ...
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node-ipc error "Messages are large, You may want to consider smaller messages."
So I am trying to setup a socket server in node.js using node-ipc, then send data from a client. I can connect perfectly fine, however when I send data I recieve the error Messages are large, You may ...
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EPROTOTYPE error whilst attempting to connect node.js unix socket client to C program
I'm rewriting a PHP application in Node.js.
A C program runs on the Linux OS that also hosts PHP.
In short, the C program handles sending data from the PHP web interface to some proprietary hardware. ...
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Communicating between C and NodeJS using node-ipc and unix sockets
This question follows on from the following:
Communicating between NodeJS and C using node-ipc and unix sockets
In regards to the accepted solution (https://stackoverflow.com/a/39848936/1834057), I ...
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NodeJS MongoDB UNIX socket connection
In a nodeJS app, I'd want to connect to my MongoDB database via its UNIX socket /tmp/mongdb-27017.sock. I use the package https://mongodb.github.io/node-mongodb-native/?jmp=docs (version 3.1.6), this ...
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