MegaHydronics•5d ago

Accessing client IP address in a query/mutation

Good day. Any help would be appreciated, as I am fairly new to Convex. Is there a way to expose HTTP headers, such as for obtaining the IP address in the example below? Or is an httpAction required for this use case?

const registerClient = mutation({
  args: { userAgent: v.string() },
  handler: async (ctx, { userAgent }) => {
    // get ip address from 'x-forwarded-for' header
    await ctx.db.insert('client', { userAgent, ip })
  }
})

const registerClient = mutation({
  args: { userAgent: v.string() },
  handler: async (ctx, { userAgent }) => {
    // get ip address from 'x-forwarded-for' header
    await ctx.db.insert('client', { userAgent, ip })
  }
})

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MegaHydronicsOP•5d ago

#ask-ai referred me to this post https://discord.com/channels/1019350475847499849/1281699105101451284 which answered my question.

ballingt•5d ago

What's your goal with this? Currently the incoming IP address is not exposed even in an httpAction.

MegaHydronicsOP•5d ago

It's for simple analytics of users' geographical distribution.

const response = await fetch(`https://ipinfo.io/${ip}/json/?token=${process.env.ipinfoToken}`)

const response = await fetch(`https://ipinfo.io/${ip}/json/?token=${process.env.ipinfoToken}`)

ballingt•5d ago

If Convex were to expose as an extra header or ctx.meta.geo property would you want the geographical location directly, or still the IP address?

MegaHydronicsOP•5d ago

For my use case, ctx.meta.geo would be great.