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Re:Certificates for localhost by inopinatus on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @07:42PM (#17360911)
There is an unofficial unix: URI scheme. Browsers don't support it but system clients sometimes do, for example nginx when configuring upstream groups as a reverse proxy[1].

[1] http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html

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Re:Certificates for localhost by eximius on Thursday June 21, 2018 @09:05AM (#17364678)
But that doesn't specify protocal then, does it?

I.e., http://unix:/path would be very not backwards compatible

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Re:Certificates for localhost by sligor on Thursday June 21, 2018 @01:31PM (#17367323)
a '+' is a valid character in an URI scheme

then http+unix:///path would make more sense

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