This object represents a client requesting to connect to the server, and allows you to accept or reject the connection based on whatever criteria you decide.
This object is created internally by WebSocketServer.
However if you need to integrate WebSocket support without mounting an instance of WebSocketServer to your http server directly, you can handle the upgrade event yourself and pass the appropriate parameters to the WebSocketRequest constructor. NOTE: You must pass a complete set of config options to the constructor. See the section 'Server Config Options' above. The only option that isn't required in this context is httpServer.
new WebSocketRequest(socket, httpRequest, config);The constructor won't immediately parse and validate the handshake from the client, so you need to call readHandshake(), which will throw an error if the handshake from the client is invalid or if an error is encountered, so it must always be wrapped in a try/catch block.
A reference to the original Node HTTP request object. This may be useful in combination with some other Node-based web server, such as Express, for accessing cookies or session data.
A string containing the contents of the Host header passed by the client. This will include the port number if a non-standard port is used.
Examples:
www.example.com
www.example.com:8080
127.0.0.1:3000
A string containing the path that was requested by the client.
A Node URL object containing the parsed resource, including the query string parameters.
The remote client's IP Address as a string. If an X-Forwarded-For header is present, the value will be taken from that header to facilitate WebSocket servers that live behind a reverse-proxy.
Deprecated, renamed to webSocketVersion
A number indicating the version of the WebSocket protocol requested by the client.
If the client is a web browser, origin will be a string containing the URL of the page containing the script that opened the connection. If the client is not a web browser, origin may be null or "*".
An array containing a list of extensions requested by the client. This is not currently used for anything. Example:
[
{
name: "simple-extension";
},
{
name: "my-great-compression-extension",
params: [
{
name: "compressionLevel",
value: "10";
}
]
}
]An array containing a list of strings that indicate the subprotocols the client would like to speak. The server should select the best one that it can support from the list and pass it to the accept() function when accepting the connection. Note that all the strings in the requestedProtocols array will have been converted to lower case, so that acceptance of a subprotocol can be case-insensitive.
Returns: WebSocketConnection instance
After inspecting the WebSocketRequest's properties, call this function on the request object to accept the connection. If you don't have a particular subprotocol you wish to speak, you may pass null for the acceptedProtocol parameter. Note that the acceptedProtocol parameter is case-insensitive, and you must either pass a value that was originally requested by the client or null. For browser clients (in which the origin property would be non-null) you must pass that user's origin as the allowedOrigin parameter to confirm that you wish to accept connections from the given origin. The return value contains the established WebSocketConnection instance that can be used to communicate with the connected client.
If you decide to reject the connection, you must call reject. You may optionally pass in an HTTP Status code (such as 404) and a textual description that will be sent to the client in the form of an "X-WebSocket-Reject-Reason" header. The connection will then be closed.
function(webSocketConnection)
Emitted by the WebSocketRequest object when the accept method has been called and the connection has been established. webSocketConnection is the established WebSocketConnection instance that can be used to communicate with the connected client.
function()
Emitted by the WebSocketRequest object when the reject method has been called and the connection has been terminated.