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theHaggis
theHaggis

Reputation: 645

Socket.send on the server on page request

Is it possible for the server to do a socket.send on page request?

so it any client that request a certain page the server side can send a post message to all clients.

so when a web request comes into a page called "status". i want the server code to parse the querystring and broadcast, but i'm unable to get the io object in my app.js to do so.

  var url = require('url');


exports.update = function(req, res){
    var url_parts = url.parse(req.url, true);
    var query = url_parts.query;

    // here i want to broadcast the query string query.update     

    res.render('status', { status: query.update });
};

Upvotes: 0

Views: 35

Answers (1)

Stanislav Terletskyi
Stanislav Terletskyi

Reputation: 2112

Did you try something like: 

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  io.sockets.emit('your event name', {data: 'some data'});
});

Upvotes: 1

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