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user3797053
user3797053

Reputation: 517

How to get hostname on node js/express js without any request

My code is like this

var app = require('express')();
var http = require('http').Server(app);
var io = require('socket.io')(http);
var rq=require('request');
var url="http://localhost/ss/some.json";
var pages=Object();
rq(url, function (error, response, body) { 
  pages=JSON.parse(body);
});

here var url="http://localhost/ss/some.json";

i want to get "localhost" without sending any request

i tried 

require("os").hostname();;

but this is returning machine name

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1905

Answers (1)

Alex Pánek
Alex Pánek

Reputation: 412

You can't get the hostname your service listens to unless you explicitely define it (in configuration) or wait for the request to pull it from there.

The hostname of the machine hosting your service is probably not the hostname your service listens to from the outside.

Upvotes: 1

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