I'm experimenting on an app that is running with nodejs, express and socket.io
Server Side:
var app = require('express')();
var http = require('http').Server(app);
var io = require('socket.io')(http);
io.on('connection', function(socket){
socket.on('send_stuff', function(stuff){
io.emit('log_stuff',newStuff);
});
});
http.listen(54123, function(){
console.log('listening on *:54123');
});
Client Side:
var socket = io.connect('http://example.com:12345');
socket.emit('send_stuff',stuff);
My question is How do I get the details of the client (ip,user-agent,etc.) that executed socket.emit('send_stuff',stuff)?
I want to pass it to the newStuff variable.
socket.on('send_stuff', function(stuff){}); in this line stuff only returns the value that was send by client emit().
Any ideas how to do this?
You can get client's ip and user-agent in connection event.
io.on('connection', function(socket){
console.log("ip: "+socket.request.connection.remoteAddress);
console.log("user-agent: "+socket.request.headers['user-agent']);
})
Documentation can give you some hints http://socket.io/docs/server-api/