What is the best way to make a page only accessible through localhost?

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Working on node app and want to make the contents of a page only available when on localhost. What is the best way/best practices to accomplish this?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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put local ip restriction (eg 127.0.0.1)

refer to this stackoverflow link for more info on how to do it

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered May 23 '16 at 21:34

erwan

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '16 at 21:42

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If you are using Express, you can use this:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
...
app.listen(3000, '127.0.0.1');

You can find more detailed explanation about this feature here: http://expressjs.com/en/api.html#app.listen

You can also achieve this with adding a rule in your firewall that will allow only connections from localhost.

answered May 23 '16 at 21:42

not using express and I want to specify it on the application layer – f00 May 23 '16 at 22:15
The example I provided is also identical with Node’s `http.Server.listen()`. I will try to give you more precise answer if you provide more technical details. – Aleksandar Trajchevski May 23 '16 at 23:22

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