webSocketServer node.js how to differentiate clients

Question

I am trying to use sockets with node.js, I succeded but I don\'t know how to differentiate clients in my code. The part concerning sockets is this:

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Answer 1

By clients if you mean the open connections, then you can use ws.upgradeReq.headers['sec-websocket-key'] as the identifier. And keep all socket objects in an array.

But if you want to identify your user then you'll need to add user specific data to socket object.