Setting a friendly name for sockets in socket.io

Asked Mar 05 '15 at 23:02

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I'm working with a socket.io project like a chat room. Every time someone sends a message, they send a human friendly name (like "Joseph") along with their name to be shown with their message.

However, I'd like to know if there's a standard way to store these human readable names on the server instead of sending them with every message. In IRC you can set a name with /nick command. How can I achieve the same result using socket.io?

Couldn't find anything on socket.io documentation.

edited Mar 05 '15 at 23:07

asked Mar 05 '15 at 23:02

AlexStack

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Just design a protocol. – Ed Heal Mar 05 '15 at 23:21
I've done that (by sending the use name along with the message) but I'm curious to know if socket.io has a native way of handling that. It seems like a popular demand. – AlexStack Mar 05 '15 at 23:24
No it does not. People can have identical IP addresses for example – Ed Heal Mar 05 '15 at 23:28
What does having identical IP addresses have to do with mapping socket id strings to friendly names? – AlexStack Mar 06 '15 at 00:02

Setting a friendly name for sockets in socket.io

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