# Curl --unix-socket in node-red?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/curl-unix-socket-in-node-red/62488
**Category:** General
**Created:** [11 May 2022 05:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/curl-unix-socket-in-node-red/62488 "2022-05-11T05:38:16Z")
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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [11 May 2022 05:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/curl-unix-socket-in-node-red/62488/1 "2022-05-11T05:38:16Z")
I am trying to reinvent the "portainer" wheel by creating my own docker container manager in node-red.
Docker engine has an API that can be called by using something like:
```auto
curl --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock http://localhost/v1.41/containers/json
```
to list all containers.
This will work with an exec node (after fighting permissions), but I find this too simple, is there a "node-red" way of doing it ? It is not a "normal" http-request, the `--unix-socket` part would be a tcp connection I believe, but I am not sure how this works.
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### Author:  [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)
#### Post date: [11 May 2022 06:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/curl-unix-socket-in-node-red/62488/2 "2022-05-11T06:56:34Z")
Use the dockerode node [node-red-contrib-dockerode (node) - Node-RED](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-dockerode)
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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [11 May 2022 16:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/curl-unix-socket-in-node-red/62488/3 "2022-05-11T16:00:56Z")
Hmm interesting, i cannot get it to work on a remote node, but this looks promising thanks!
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### Author:  [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)
#### Post date: [11 May 2022 16:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/curl-unix-socket-in-node-red/62488/4 "2022-05-11T16:08:29Z")
For remote you'll need to enable true tcp/http on the docker engine to allow remote connections.
But also the http-request node uses got so you might be able to use a url like this:
`http://unix:/var/run/docker.sock:/containers/json`
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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [11 May 2022 16:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/curl-unix-socket-in-node-red/62488/5 "2022-05-11T16:15:16Z")
> For remote you'll need to enable true tcp/http on the docker engine to allow remote connections.
Yes I have "managed" to configure that part, but I think there is also some firewall/iptables stuff blocking the road somewhere.
I am not sure what you mean with the http-request node, unless you mean to use that for localhost only ?
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### Author:  [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)
#### Post date: [11 May 2022 16:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/curl-unix-socket-in-node-red/62488/6 "2022-05-11T16:17:35Z")
It was about the original unix domain socket question, I just meant it should be possible to access a domain socket with the http-request node (but only on the local machine)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [25 May 2022 16:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/curl-unix-socket-in-node-red/62488/7 "2022-05-25T16:18:02Z")
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