Actually, the standard environment *does* allow (outbound) sockets, but with some restrictions (and not via the "net" package). Also, it's still in Beta.
The list of restrictions can be found here <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/sockets/>, and the API docs are here <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/sockets/reference>. On Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 1:40:33 AM UTC+2, kortschak wrote: > > I think that the project lead has decided to move to flex, so the issue > has become moot. > > However, it would be nice for there to be some reasonably discoverable > documentation for these things. > > The questions I would have had have been answered in what you wrote: we > want to have outbound sockets (via net.DialTCP, and in the first pass > access to syscall, but in the light of another answer from Ian, this > will likely go away). > > thanks > > On Mon, 2018-10-01 at 23:31 -0700, Stanley Iriele wrote: > > As mentioned elsewhere on this thread. Appengine flex allows you to > > use any > > golang package. Appengine standard is a different story. Appengine > > standard > > has come a long way, but generally speaking you can't use sockets, > > syscall, > > any package that imports syscall, and you can't make outbound http > > requests > > with anything other than appengine's urlfetch. > > > > Keep in mind that appengine standard is designed for stateless > > requests. > > Any clients you make need to be created per request. Is there a > > specific > > question that you have aside from general importability? > > > > On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 4:25:09 PM UTC-7, kortschak wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'd ask this at google-appengine-go, but there does not appear to > > > be > > > any real traffic to that group; numerous threads have only the > > > single > > > post that is the question being asked. > > > > > > The documentation for go appengine is woeful in terms of what is > > > allowed and what is not (previously I asked here and there > > > regarding > > > the requirements for passing `go vet -composites` without clear > > > response). Since I doubt I'll get a response there, I'll try my > > > luck > > > here: > > > > > > Is there documentation detailing which std packages are > > > allowed/banned > > > from appengine applications (obviously unsafe, but also net? > > > syscall? > > > etc?) Alternatively, can people here give a reasonably complete > > > list of > > > allowed/banned packages? > > > > > > thanks > > > Dan > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
