Option to set the local network interface

[patrickjane]

I could not find any information about network interface binding for outgoing requests. This would be necessary for my project, however, since the customers firewall will not allow connections from all interfaces of the host.
To be precise, request module's localAddress option would be needed.

Is there a way to work around this issue?

[s-KaiNet]

I can't see any easy way to do that, apart adding a new parameter to the getAuth method, which is not very convenient.

Have you tried node-sp-auth with localAddress setup? Does it work for you?

[patrickjane]

What do you mean with "localAddress setup"?

[s-KaiNet]

I mean do you have working proof-of-concept for node-sp-auth and request module's localAddress provided? In other words are you sure that node-sp-auth works well for you with localAddress specified?

[patrickjane]

No I don't. I was just asking for a way to have all network actions of your library bind to a specific local address :) This is done in the request module by specifying the localAddress option. If the request module is the only way of network communication you have, then it should be sufficient.
However I did not check your code, and you're the author of the code, so you should probably know if there is more to be done.

[s-KaiNet]

I've published 2.5.0 version. Now you can configure request module, used in node-sp-auth with below code:

spauth.setup({
        requestOptions: {
          headers: {
            'my-test-header': 'my value'
          },
          localAddress: '123',
          ...
        }
      });

You should run setup before running getAuth method. Please try it and say if it works for you.

[patrickjane]

Thanks for the follow up, I have updated the module and did some tests, everything seems to work fine.

I appreciate your work, its a great and really easy to use lib which works really well. Thumbs up 👍

[s-KaiNet]

thanks, glad it helps! Closing