node.js - socket.io parse requested url

Question

node.js - socket.io parse requested url

I want to parse a requested url. When I used websocket.io I had a request-object I could parse. How can I do it with socket.io ?

example:

http://localhost:4000/foo

how can I get out "foo"? I tried:

 io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {


    console.log(socket.handshake.address.address);
            console.log(socket.handshake.url);
}

but it does not print "foo"

node.js
url
request

Answer 1

BTW--Your approach is correct if you are supplying parameters to the socketio connection instead of path elements. It solved my problem when using https://github.com/pkyeck/socket.IO-objc with nodejs socketio to add params to my socket connection.

For example:

[socketIO connectToHost:@"localhost" onPort:8888 withParams:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:@"52523f26f5b23538f000001c" forKey:@"player"]];

constructs URL as follows:

http://localhost:8888/socket.io/1/?t=16807&player=52523f26f5b23538f000001c

The params are accessible on the server in socket.handshake.query

socketio.listen(server).on('connection', function(socket) {
console.log('socket info = ', socket.handshake.query.player);

Answer 2

Use the URL api. http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/url.html

u = url.parse(url)
console.log(u.path)