diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bcc4dcf..ec654cf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -50,6 +50,22 @@ You can also establish your outgoing connections through a SOCKS proxy server
 by adding a dependency to [clue/socks-react](https://github.com/clue/php-socks-react).
 See the [SOCKS example](examples/socks).
 
+### UNIX domain sockets
+
+This library also supports connecting to a local UNIX domain socket path.
+You have to explicitly create a `Sender` that passes every request through the
+given UNIX domain socket.
+For consistency reasons you still have to pass full HTTP URLs for every request,
+but the host and port will be ignored when establishing a connection.
+
+```php
+$path = 'unix:///tmp/daemon.sock';
+$sender = Sender::createFromLoopUnix($loop, $path);
+$client = new Browser($loop, $sender);
+
+$client->get('http://localhost/demo');
+```
+
 ## Install
 
 The recommended way to install this library is [through composer](http://getcomposer.org). [New to composer?](http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md)
diff --git a/src/Io/Sender.php b/src/Io/Sender.php
index 380197e..35c79b7 100644
--- a/src/Io/Sender.php
+++ b/src/Io/Sender.php
@@ -63,6 +63,20 @@ public static function createFromLoopConnectors(LoopInterface $loop, ConnectorIn
         return new self($http);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * create a sender that sends *everything* through given UNIX socket path
+     *
+     * @param LoopInterface $loop
+     * @param string        $path
+     * @return self
+     */
+    public static function createFromLoopUnix(LoopInterface $loop, $path)
+    {
+        $connector = new UnixConnector($loop, $path);
+
+        return self::createFromLoopConnectors($loop, $connector);
+    }
+
     private $http;
 
     public function __construct(HttpClient $http)
diff --git a/src/Io/UnixConnector.php b/src/Io/UnixConnector.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..455841f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Io/UnixConnector.php
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Clue\React\Buzz\Io;
+
+use React\SocketClient\ConnectorInterface;
+use React\Stream\Stream;
+use React\EventLoop\LoopInterface;
+use React\Promise\Deferred;
+use RuntimeException;
+use Guzzle\Common\Exception\InvalidArgumentException;
+
+/**
+ * dummy unix domain socket connector
+ *
+ * The path to connect to is set once during instantiation, the actual
+ * target host is then ignored.
+ *
+ * Unix domain sockets use atomic operations, so we can as well emulate
+ * async behavior.
+ */
+class UnixConnector implements ConnectorInterface
+{
+    private $loop;
+    private $path;
+
+    public function __construct(LoopInterface $loop, $path)
+    {
+        if (substr($path, 0, 7) !== 'unix://') {
+            $path = 'unix://' . $path;
+        }
+
+        $this->loop = $loop;
+        $this->path = $path;
+    }
+
+    public function create($host, $port)
+    {
+        $deferred = new Deferred();
+
+        $resource = @stream_socket_client($this->path, $errno, $errstr, 1.0);
+
+        if (!$resource) {
+            $deferred->reject(new RuntimeException('Unable to connect to unix domain socket path: ' . $errstr, $errno));
+        } else {
+            $deferred->resolve(new Stream($resource, $this->loop));
+        }
+
+        return $deferred->promise();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/Io/SenderTest.php b/tests/Io/SenderTest.php
index 13a1b4e..9600e0a 100644
--- a/tests/Io/SenderTest.php
+++ b/tests/Io/SenderTest.php
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ public function testCreateFromLoopConnectors()
         $this->assertInstanceOf('Clue\React\Buzz\Io\Sender', $sender);
     }
 
+    public function testCreateFromLoopUnix()
+    {
+        $sender = Sender::createFromLoopUnix($this->loop, 'unix:///run/daemon.sock');
+
+        $this->assertInstanceOf('Clue\React\Buzz\Io\Sender', $sender);
+    }
+
     public function testSenderRejection()
     {
         $connector = $this->getMock('React\SocketClient\ConnectorInterface');
diff --git a/tests/Io/UnixConnectorTest.php b/tests/Io/UnixConnectorTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..74b6a80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Io/UnixConnectorTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+<?php
+
+use Clue\React\Buzz\Io\UnixConnector;
+use React\EventLoop\Factory as LoopFactory;
+
+class UnixConnectorTest extends TestCase
+{
+    public function testInvalid()
+    {
+        $path = 'invalid://asd';
+
+        $loop = $this->getMock('React\EventLoop\LoopInterface');
+        $connector = new UnixConnector($loop, $path);
+
+        $promise = $connector->create('localhost', 80);
+
+        $this->expectPromiseReject($promise);
+    }
+
+    public function testValid()
+    {
+        $path = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'socket');
+
+        $server = @stream_socket_server('unix://' . $path, $errno, $errstr);
+
+        if (!$server) {
+            $this->markTestSkipped('Unable to create socket: ' . $errstr . '(' . $errno .')');
+            return;
+        }
+
+        $loop = $this->getMock('React\EventLoop\LoopInterface');
+        $connector = new UnixConnector($loop, 'unix://' . $path);
+
+        $promise = $connector->create('localhost', 80);
+
+        $this->expectPromiseResolve($promise);
+
+        fclose($server);
+        unlink($path);
+    }
+}