LXD REST API example via unix socket using python3 socket

test.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import socket

target_host = "localhost"
socket_path = "/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/unix.socket"

client = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
client.connect(socket_path)

# send some data
request = "GET /1.0/instances HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:%s\r\n\r\n" % target_host
client.send(request.encode())

# receive some data
response = client.recv(4096)
http_response = repr(response)
http_response_len = len(http_response)

#display the response
print("[RECV] - length: %d" % http_response_len)
print(http_response)

via_ansible_http_client.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import socket
from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import http_client

HTTPConnection = http_client.HTTPConnection

class UnixHTTPConnection(HTTPConnection):
    def __init__(self, path):
        HTTPConnection.__init__(self, 'localhost')
        self.path = path

    def connect(self):
        sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
        sock.connect(self.path)
        self.sock = sock

target_host = 'localhost'
socket_path = "/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/unix.socket"
connection = UnixHTTPConnection(socket_path)

connection.request('GET', '/1.0/containers')
response = connection.getresponse()

# receive some data
http_response = response.read()
http_response_len = len(http_response)

#display the response
print("[RECV] - length: %d" % http_response_len)
print(http_response)

This script is based on https://www.geeks3d.com/hacklab/20190110/python-3-simple-http-request-with-the-socket-module/
Thanks!