Use autocannon on a UNIX socket

[watson]

With this you can tell autocannon to send requests to a UNIX socket instead of a TCP socket, e.g:

autocannon /tmp/my-server.sock

For use with test HTTP server:

const http = require('http')
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.end('Hello World')
}).listen('/tmp/my-server.sock')

[watson]

@mcollina before I dive deeper into this rabbit hole, I just wanted to hear your opinion on this - if this is even something you'd like to add to autocannon.

My use-case is that I'm benchmarking the difference between letting an HTTP server listen on a TCP socket vs a UNIX socket to see how much more throughput I can get this way for use with interprocess communication.

[mcollina]

Can you add a unit test for this?

[watson]

@mcollina updated

[GlenTiki]

This is great! I'll merge when I'm back at my laptop. Thanks 😄