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Jobin James
Jobin James

Reputation: 35

Server showing multiple client connection (net nodejs)

I am trying to make a server which listens on a internet facing port and forwards incoming http requests to an internal express server listening at another port. Following is the relevant part of the code I'm using.

var net = require('net');

var server = net.createServer();

server.listen(addr.from[3], addr.from[2], function(){
  console.log('Server listening');
});

server.on('connection',function(from){
   console.log('Client connected from '+ from.remoteAddress);
   var to = net.createConnection({
     host: addr.to[2],
     port: addr.to[3]
   });

   from.pipe(to);
   to.pipe(from);

   from.on('error',function(err){
     winston.error('Error at unix box'+err);
     to.end();
   });

   to.on('error',function(err){
      winston.error('Error at middleware server'+err);
      from.end();
   });

  from.on('end',function(){
      console.log('Client disconnected ');
      to.end();
  });

  to.on('end',function(){
      console.log('Middleware disconnected');
      from.end();
  });

});

The problem I'm encountering is that, when I open "ip:port" in the browser (which would be the internet facing port) I'm getting messages multiple "client connected from xxxxxx" msgs on the console. Can anyone help me understand why this is happening?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1449

Answers (1)

alandarev
alandarev

Reputation: 8635

Whenever browser connects to a website it usually makes two requests: normal and to retrieve favicon.

Funny thing, is that the favicon request is not even displayed in browser developer tools.

To verify, you need to extract the request made, print it to server, and then observe why you get multiple requests. For that, connection might be too early, try hooking request event instead:

server.on('request', funtion(req, res) { console.log(req.url); });

Upvotes: 2

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