Get the client's IP address in socket.io

Question

When using socket.IO in a Node.js server, is there an easy way to get the IP address of an incoming connection? I know you can get it from a standard HTTP connection, but socket.io is a bit of a different beast.

Answer 1

For latest socket.io version use

socket.request.connection.remoteAddress

For example:

var socket = io.listen(server);
socket.on('connection', function (client) {
  var client_ip_address = socket.request.connection.remoteAddress;
}

beware that the code below returns the Server's IP, not the Client's IP

var address = socket.handshake.address;
console.log('New connection from ' + address.address + ':' + address.port);

Answer 2

From reading the socket.io source code it looks like the "listen" method takes arguments (server, options, fn) and if "server" is an instance of an HTTP/S server it will simply wrap it for you.

So you could presumably give it an empty server which listens for the 'connection' event and handles the socket remoteAddress; however, things might be very difficult if you need to associate that address with an actual socket.io Socket object.

var http = require('http')
  , io = require('socket.io');
io.listen(new http.Server().on('connection', function(sock) {
  console.log('Client connected from: ' + sock.remoteAddress);
}).listen(80));

Might be easier to submit a patch to socket.io wherein their own Socket object is extended with the remoteAddress property assigned at connection time...

Answer 3

This seems to work:

var io = require('socket.io').listen(80);
io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
  var endpoint = socket.manager.handshaken[socket.id].address;
  console.log('Client connected from: ' + endpoint.address + ":" + endpoint.port);
});

Answer 4

Since socket.io 1.1.0, I use :

io.on('connection', function (socket) {
  console.log('connection :', socket.request.connection._peername);
  // connection : { address: '192.168.1.86', family: 'IPv4', port: 52837 }
}

Edit : Note that this is not part of the official API, and therefore not guaranteed to work in future releases of socket.io.

Also see this relevant link : engine.io issue

Answer 5

Okay, as of 0.7.7 this is available, but not in the manner that lubar describes. I ended up needing to parse through some commit logs on git hub to figure this one out, but the following code does actually work for me now:

var io = require('socket.io').listen(server);

io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
  var address = socket.handshake.address;
  console.log('New connection from ' + address.address + ':' + address.port);
});

Answer 6

In 1.3.5 :

var clientIP = socket.handshake.headers.host;