# How to hide or change the socketId after localhost:1880/ui in the URL

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-hide-or-change-the-socketid-after-localhost-1880-ui-in-the-url/60131>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [21 March 2022 08:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-hide-or-change-the-socketid-after-localhost-1880-ui-in-the-url/60131 "2022-03-21T08:02:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![quemf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/97f17d/32.png) [@quemf](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/quemf)\
**Post date:** [21 March 2022 08:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-hide-or-change-the-socketid-after-localhost-1880-ui-in-the-url/60131/1 "2022-03-21T08:02:45Z")

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Hi everyone,

I come from this topic: [How to detect which user is connected to Node-RED](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-detect-which-user-is-connected-to-node-red/59979)

And now, I am trying to hide the socketid that follows the URL localhost:1880/ui.  
Does anyone know how to do it?

Thank you in advance,

Q.

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**Author:** ![quemf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/97f17d/32.png) [@quemf](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/quemf)\
**Post date:** [21 March 2022 08:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-hide-or-change-the-socketid-after-localhost-1880-ui-in-the-url/60131/2 "2022-03-21T08:09:30Z")

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The thing is that I am trying to force a login with a dashboard form, and I don't want another user to be able to copy a URL  
 ![url](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/3/f/3fb0828aae15f19434c2eb7e4ae5d477f9fe1f4f.png)

and access the content of another application that is not theirs.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [20 May 2022 08:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-hide-or-change-the-socketid-after-localhost-1880-ui-in-the-url/60131/3 "2022-05-20T08:10:25Z")

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