Re: [whatwg/url] Addressing HTTP servers over Unix domain sockets (#577)

> Unix domain sockets are an OS-specific transport. Windows has named pipes instead. 

AFAIU, [AF_UNIX has come to Windows](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-windows/).

> For example, one could connect to fe8f::3:6:0 port 12345, and it would map to a Unix socket at /run/00006/00000_12345. 

One benefit of filesystem sockets is that you can skip the numeric address part and directly map human-friendly names (virtual hostnames) into (human-friendly) paths. This way you avoid the cumbersome task of managing a mapping human-firendly virtual hostnames into numeric addresses.

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