What is the best way to create a socket object on an already connected client?

I have a sample door that already has user.* object access but I want to create a new hot socket connection based on the current users client.socket; client.port; client.protocol so that I can then:

var s = new Socket(SOCK_STREAM, user.protocol);
then var real_ip = s.remote_ip_address; ... type thingie

Is this possible?


My doctor said I have the body of a 25 year old ... and the mind of a 10 :-/

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Re: Obtain Socket object from within script
By: Mortifis to All on Tue Aug 13 2019 10:29:37

I have a sample door that already has user.* object access but I want to create a new hot socket connection based on the current users client.socket; client.port; client.protocol so that I can then:

Why not just use client.socket?

var s = new Socket(SOCK_STREAM, user.protocol);
then var real_ip = s.remote_ip_address; ... type thingie

The value of client.socket.remote_ip_address is already available to you.

Apart from maybe reading this value, I have very rarely ever needed to interact directly with the client
socket in the context of a JS "door". IO with the client should really go through the existing
console/bbs methods unless there's a really good reason to bypass them.

I suspect this isn't a path you need to go down.

Is this possible?

I think you can do:

var s = new Socket(true, client.socket.descriptor);

As you can guess, I doubt if this is necessary in your case.

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Re: Obtain Socket object from within script
By: Mortifis to All on Tue Aug 13 2019 10:29:37

I have a sample door that already has user.* object access but I want to create a new hot socket connection based on the current users client.socket; client.port; client.protocol so that I can then:

Why not just use client.socket?

var s = new Socket(SOCK_STREAM, user.protocol);
then var real_ip = s.remote_ip_address; ... type thingie

The value of client.socket.remote_ip_address is already available to you.

Apart from maybe reading this value, I have very rarely ever needed to interact directly with the client
socket in the context of a JS "door". IO with the client should really go through the existing
console/bbs methods unless there's a really good reason to bypass them.

I suspect this isn't a path you need to go down.

Is this possible?

I think you can do:

var s = new Socket(true, client.socket.descriptor);

As you can guess, I doubt if this is necessary in your case.

You're right, not likely necessary. I had tried client.socket.remote_ip_address but it was still showing as 127.0.0.1, so I suspect that connecting to an already open socket as var s = new Socket(true, client.socket.descriptor); print(s.Socket.remote_ip_address) would likely just show what was already stored in client.socket.remote_ip_address; which is already user.ip_address and bbs.atcode["CID] anyway ... hmmm...

Thanks, EC, I appreciate the response





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You're right, not likely necessary. I had tried client.socket.remote_ip_address but it was still showing as 127.0.0.1, so I suspect that connecting to an already open socket as var s = new Socket(true, client.socket.descriptor); print(s.Socket.remote_ip_address) would likely just show what was already stored in client.socket.remote_ip_address; which is already user.ip_address and bbs.atcode["CID] anyway ... hmmm...

despite the error in the print statement (should be s.remote_ip_address) the assumption was correct ... that value is still 127.0.0.1 and not 24.138.28.115 :-/


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