Http-in get Request IP/Address

General
1

Hi there,

its possible to get the client ip address at request ?

i read that http-in based on expressjs but there is no msg.req.ip
can anybody help me please

2

You might want to check the msg.req.headers object (e.g. mine has a field called x-real-ip), but in my case that was set by an nginx reverse proxy. For a standalone instance, you probably won't have that information available.

3

How come a simple information as this is not available from this node ?

I have multiple clients in the LAN (hence no need for a rev proxy like nginx), and would like to log the source IP coming onto my node-red server (without having to import the node-red-contrib-http-logger because it is said to be used only for debugging purpose and it's indeed a bit overhead for what I need)

something like msg.req.sourceIP would be handy ....

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Go get client ip address at request if you ar using nginx reverse proxy,
you must add something like the following to your NGINX Proxy Configuration:

proxy_set_header   Host               $host;
proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP          $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Proto  $scheme;
proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For    $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

In this case the client ip address will appear here in your msg.req.headers as X-Real-IP.