How to get current domain address in sails.js

Question

I trying to get current web address using sails.js.

I tried the following:

req.param(\'host\') and req.param(\'X-Forwarded-Protocol\') 

Answer 1

On sails 0.10.x, you could do this:

//inside controller action
var baseURL = req.protocol + '://' + req.host;

req.protocol will give you 'http' or 'https' (or whatever application protocol). req.host will be the host's header, e.g. 'sub.domain.com'

As noted in a comment above, sails.getBaseURL() or any of it's variants will usually return localhost, even in a production environment.