Not getting remote address while using proxy in socket.io

Question

In my socket.io code,

socket.sockets.on(\'connection\', function(client){ 
    var ip = client.handshake.address.address;
    ..
}

ip alwa

Answer 1

For people who may come from Google, using NGINX: none of these worked for me, I followed the answer in this other question and modified my proxy_pass, to create a new header that node could then use. Don't forget to call sudo systemctl restart nginx after.

Answer 2

yes, this is working for me.

client.handshake.headers['x-forwarded-for'] || client.handshake.address.address;

I am properly getting the remote IP address and not 127.0.0.1

Answer 3

In version > 1.0, the syntax is similar:

socket.handshake.headers['x-forwarded-for'] || socket.request.connection.remoteAddress;