Remote IP from request on http server

Question

is there any way to know the remote IP adress form a request on on the http server? Using "net" for a socket connection is socket.remoteAddress but for the http server I get undifined for the same .remoteAddress

Regards

Answer 1

I'm just adding this because I came across this article and it still took me a little bit of time to figure out it was as you see in the following:

var http = require('http');

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
    res.end('Hello ' + req.connection.remoteAddress + '!');
    console.log("request received from: " + req.connection.remoteAddress);
}).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');

console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');

Answer 2

You can use the request.connection method to retrieve the net.Socket object, where you can then use your socket.remoteAddress property.