# How to find out URL of node-red inside a node?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-find-out-url-of-node-red-inside-a-node/58893
**Category:** Developing Nodes
**Created:** [23 February 2022 20:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-find-out-url-of-node-red-inside-a-node/58893 "2022-02-23T20:18:18Z")
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### Author:  [@windkh](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/windkh)
#### Post date: [23 February 2022 20:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-find-out-url-of-node-red-inside-a-node/58893/1 "2022-02-23T20:18:18Z")
Hi,
I want to receive a HTTP GET inside my own node like the HTTP-in does it as follows:
RED.httpNode.get('/myprivateroute', cookieParser(), httpMiddleware, corsHandler, metricsHandler, callback, errorHandler);
My question is: how can I determine the full url which is accessible from the local network?
"[http://IP](http://IP):PORT/myprivateroute"
I found out that the PORT number can be extracted from
"RED.server.\_connectionKey"
, however the IP cannot be found there. Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [23 February 2022 20:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-find-out-url-of-node-red-inside-a-node/58893/2 "2022-02-23T20:53:58Z")
Hi, what is the reason for wanting to know the IP and port? what is the end goal? Perhaps there is an other / better approach?
NOTE: The IP 127.0.0.1 will obviously work but which IP (or IPs) node-red is accessible on is a completely different kettle of fish (even IF you could get the IP addresses, you still dont know if the IP or Port is blocked by a firewall or non routed for example)
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [23 February 2022 21:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-find-out-url-of-node-red-inside-a-node/58893/3 "2022-02-23T21:35:41Z")
Much of this information is in RED.settings already.
However, the whole thing is complex and has some things to catch you out. I spent quite a lot of time trying to get this right for uibuilder vNext with input from others on dealing with things like what happens when you are behind a reverse proxy.
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### Author:  [@windkh](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/windkh)
#### Post date: [23 February 2022 21:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-find-out-url-of-node-red-inside-a-node/58893/4 "2022-02-23T21:48:41Z")
Thanks, for trying to help to find an alternative, but I simply need the url with ip and port that‘s all. Instead of the IP, the hostname would be ok, too.
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### Author:  [@windkh](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/windkh)
#### Post date: [23 February 2022 21:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-find-out-url-of-node-red-inside-a-node/58893/5 "2022-02-23T21:50:01Z")
Ah ok I see your point, but it is only about devices communicating inside a local network… no internet
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### Author:  [@lu4t](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/lu4t)
#### Post date: [23 February 2022 21:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-find-out-url-of-node-red-inside-a-node/58893/6 "2022-02-23T21:54:12Z")
are you trying to access the endpoint from within the same nw segment?
if yes, you might want to have a look at this:
> **[node-red-nodes/io/mdns at c1c82a623e01992e2862d68e65fcc306dd9bcdd1 ·...](https://github.com/node-red/node-red-nodes/tree/c1c82a623e01992e2862d68e65fcc306dd9bcdd1/io/mdns)**
>
> c1c82a623e01992e2862d68e65fcc306dd9bcdd1/io/mdns
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### Author:  [@windkh](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/windkh)
#### Post date: [24 February 2022 06:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-find-out-url-of-node-red-inside-a-node/58893/7 "2022-02-24T06:58:20Z")
@lu4t thanks, I will have a look into the mdns module.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [25 April 2022 06:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-find-out-url-of-node-red-inside-a-node/58893/8 "2022-04-25T06:59:17Z")
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