After Issue #30694 is completed, it looks like Go 1.13 will probably support storing the net.Conn in the Request Context, which makes this fairly clean and simple:
package main
import (
"net/http"
"context"
"net"
"log"
)
type contextKey struct {
key string
}
var ConnContextKey = &contextKey{"http-conn"}
func SaveConnInContext(ctx context.Context, c net.Conn) (context.Context) {
return context.WithValue(ctx, ConnContextKey, c)
}
func GetConn(r *http.Request) (net.Conn) {
return r.Context().Value(ConnContextKey).(net.Conn)
}
func main() {
http.HandleFunc("/", myHandler)
server := http.Server{
Addr: ":8080",
ConnContext: SaveConnInContext,
}
server.ListenAndServe()
}
func myHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
conn := GetConn(r)
...
}
Until then ... For a server listening on a TCP port, net.Conn.RemoteAddr().String() is unique for each connection and is available to the http.Handler as r.RemoteAddr, so it can be used as a key to a global map of Conns:
package main
import (
"net/http"
"net"
"fmt"
"log"
)
var conns = make(map[string]net.Conn)
func ConnStateEvent(conn net.Conn, event http.ConnState) {
if event == http.StateActive {
conns[conn.RemoteAddr().String()] = conn
} else if event == http.StateHijacked || event == http.StateClosed {
delete(conns, conn.RemoteAddr().String())
}
}
func GetConn(r *http.Request) (net.Conn) {
return conns[r.RemoteAddr]
}
func main() {
http.HandleFunc("/", myHandler)
server := http.Server{
Addr: ":8080",
ConnState: ConnStateEvent,
}
server.ListenAndServe()
}
func myHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
conn := GetConn(r)
...
}
For a server listening on a UNIX socket, net.Conn.RemoteAddr().String() is always "@", so the above doesn't work. To make this work, we can override net.Listener.Accept(), and use that to override net.Conn.RemoteAddr().String() so that it returns a unique string for each connection:
package main
import (
"net/http"
"net"
"os"
"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
"fmt"
"log"
)
func main() {
http.HandleFunc("/", myHandler)
listenPath := "/var/run/go_server.sock"
l, err := NewUnixListener(listenPath)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer os.Remove(listenPath)
server := http.Server{
ConnState: ConnStateEvent,
}
server.Serve(NewConnSaveListener(l))
}
func myHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
conn := GetConn(r)
if unixConn, isUnix := conn.(*net.UnixConn); isUnix {
f, _ := unixConn.File()
pcred, _ := unix.GetsockoptUcred(int(f.Fd()), unix.SOL_SOCKET, unix.SO_PEERCRED)
f.Close()
log.Printf("Remote UID: %d", pcred.Uid)
}
}
var conns = make(map[string]net.Conn)
type connSaveListener struct {
net.Listener
}
func NewConnSaveListener(wrap net.Listener) (net.Listener) {
return connSaveListener{wrap}
}
func (self connSaveListener) Accept() (net.Conn, error) {
conn, err := self.Listener.Accept()
ptrStr := fmt.Sprintf("%d", &conn)
conns[ptrStr] = conn
return remoteAddrPtrConn{conn, ptrStr}, err
}
func GetConn(r *http.Request) (net.Conn) {
return conns[r.RemoteAddr]
}
func ConnStateEvent(conn net.Conn, event http.ConnState) {
if event == http.StateHijacked || event == http.StateClosed {
delete(conns, conn.RemoteAddr().String())
}
}
type remoteAddrPtrConn struct {
net.Conn
ptrStr string
}
func (self remoteAddrPtrConn) RemoteAddr() (net.Addr) {
return remoteAddrPtr{self.ptrStr}
}
type remoteAddrPtr struct {
ptrStr string
}
func (remoteAddrPtr) Network() (string) {
return ""
}
func (self remoteAddrPtr) String() (string) {
return self.ptrStr
}
func NewUnixListener(path string) (net.Listener, error) {
if err := unix.Unlink(path); err != nil && !os.IsNotExist(err) {
return nil, err
}
mask := unix.Umask(0777)
defer unix.Umask(mask)
l, err := net.Listen("unix", path)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if err := os.Chmod(path, 0660); err != nil {
l.Close()
return nil, err
}
return l, nil
}