[Openstack-devel] Bug#719889: But #719889 for websockify in the Debian tracker

[Thomas Goirand]

On 09/26/2013 10:29 PM, Joel Martin wrote:
> Thomas, Timo,
> 
> Websockify actually does have support for unix sockets (--unix-target).
> I've never used it (it was contributed by cloud9ers) so I can't vouch
> for how well it works but I'm certainly willing to take patches to make
> it work better. Using Unix sockets is definitely a cleaner option than
> using wrap mode/rebind. The wrap mode code was never updated to find
> rebind.so when websockify is installed to distro paths. I would also
> take patches to enable wrap mode to properly locate rebind.so. However,
> I wouldn't encourage production use of wrap mode. It works but it's
> doing non-obvious things (i.e. hard to debug) and as you suggested there
> are better ways of accomplishing the equivalent thing in production.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joel Martin (kanaka)

Hi,

I think you're missing the most important part of the bug report, which
is that websockify doesn't find the rebind.so in /usr/lib/websockify.
That's what needs to be fixed ASAP, the other comment about unix socket
is a distraction.

Cheers,

Thomas