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Stefan Agner 2e7c612182 Use Unix socket for Supervisor to Core communication
Switch internal Supervisor-to-Core HTTP and WebSocket communication
from TCP (port 8123) to a Unix domain socket.

The existing /run/supervisor directory on the host (already mounted
at /run/os inside the Supervisor container) is bind-mounted into the
Core container at /run/supervisor. Core receives the socket path via
the SUPERVISOR_CORE_API_SOCKET environment variable, creates the
socket there, and Supervisor connects to it via aiohttp.UnixConnector
at /run/os/core.sock.

Since the Unix socket is only reachable by processes on the same host,
requests arriving over it are implicitly trusted and authenticated as
the existing Supervisor system user. This removes the token round-trip
where Supervisor had to obtain and send Bearer tokens on every Core
API call. WebSocket connections are likewise authenticated implicitly,
skipping the auth_required/auth handshake.

Key design decisions:
- Version-gated by CORE_UNIX_SOCKET_MIN_VERSION so older Core
  versions transparently continue using TCP with token auth
- LANDINGPAGE is explicitly excluded (not a CalVer version)
- Hard-fails with a clear error if the socket file is unexpectedly
  missing when Unix socket communication is expected
- WSClient.connect() for Unix socket (no auth) and
  WSClient.connect_with_auth() for TCP (token auth) separate the
  two connection modes cleanly
- Token refresh always uses the TCP websession since it is inherently
  a TCP/Bearer-auth operation
- Logs which transport (Unix socket vs TCP) is being used on first
  request

Closes #6626
Related Core PR: home-assistant/core#163907

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 19:23:55 +02:00
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