Socket.encrypted documentation

[tobidelius]

Affected URL(s)

https://nodejs.org/api/net.html#class-netsocket

Description of the problem

From what I can see people are using req.connection.encrypted or req.socket.encrypted to check it the request is http or https but I cannot find any reference to this in the documentation.

Is this the way to do it or is there another way? I cannot find anyone that actually knows :)

[Mesteery]

It's document here: https://nodejs.org/api/tls.html#tlssocketencrypted.
When it's https, tls is used instead of net, that's why encrypted comes from here (and so encrypted is undefined when it's http, because net doesn't define this property).

I don't know if this answers your question.

[tobidelius]

Ahh, thank you for the clarification.

[lobsterkatie]

Landed here because I had the same question. Would it be possible to reopen this until a note can be added to request.socket to say that it will be net.socket when the protocol is http and tls.socket when the protocol is https?