Status Update

[miketheman]

Hello! 👋
I've not used Discussions much and I am learning how it works, so bear with me.

I thought it'd be good to post a status update for any users that are interested in the evolution of the plugin.

In the interest of transparency of what I'm planning on doing next, I'd like to cover a scenario that appears to pop up in the Issues often.

There seems to be some confusion and (possibly even contradiction) in the way the plugin is configured and what behavior and precedence model should be.
The original intent was that all you needed to do was have the plugin installed for it to auto-activate, but then we changed to an opt-in mode with configurations, but likely have conflated some of the precedence, so that's work working out

Refs:

• Unexpected interaction between --disable-socket and --allow-hosts #13
• socket_enabled does not work with pytest.mark.parametrize #56
• socket_enabled does not completely enable socket #57
• sockets still blocked when --disable-socket is not used #65
• Docker SDK unix socket connections blocked #78

My current thinking is to draft out the desired precedence behavior first, and then determine how close it is to the current behavior expressed in the README and see where the gaps are, if any.

I'll write a fresh test module focused only on the config precedence - it may borrow from existing test cases, but at least that part will be well-tested.

Following that, I'm thinking of addressing UNIX sockets - usually for async testing.
Refs:

• socket_allow_hosts doesn't handle AF_UNIX sockets #70
• Give socket_allow_hosts the ability to handle AF_UNIX sockets #71

After that, I'm thinking about more of the key flows for allow-hosts behaviors - always helpful to hear how people are using the plugin!

So that's the main update! I've created a Milestone to connect the things that I'll have worked out for that version.

Hopefully this helps y'all see what I'm thinking about, and as always, your feedback is valuable for this part-time project!

[miketheman]

Wow, it's been a flurry of activity! I've resolved a lot the open bugs, and am preparing for a release. There's going to be some other cleanups along the way, and I'll try to get everything into the changelog.