passing properties on connection engine-io

[Michael Dausmann]

I am using engine-io (1.5.2) on server and client.  my client connection looks like this.

<script src="lib/engine.io.js"></script>
...
socket = eio('ws://');

and my server side looks like this...

   var connect = require('connect');
   var serveStatic = require('serve-static');
   var app = connect().use(serveStatic(__dirname + '/client'));
   var http = require('http').createServer(app).listen(9000);
   var server = require('engine.io').attach(http);

   .......

   server.on('connection', (socket) => {
      console.log('connection recieved from socket ' + socket.id + ' ' + JSON.stringify(socket.handshake))  
      //... retrieve connection parameters?
    });

How can I pass some information like user name etc to my server when a client connects?

I have seen some use of handshake and query but none of it is working and docs are a bit sparse.

Michael

[Jonathan Chetwynd]

Michael,

keep your project simple to start with: http://socket.io/docs/#

once you have that working...

there can be a problem with some firewalls, if perhaps you are at a college etc...

did you check that you have a public website, etc.

do you really need engine.io?

if so look at: https://github.com/socketio/engine.io

best

Jonathan