force client disconnect from server with socket io and nodejs

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Is there any way to disconnect a client with SocketIO  and literally close the connection  So if someone is connected to my server  and I want to close the connection between them and my server  how would I go about doing that

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This didn t work for me     socket disconnect       This did work for me    socket disconnect true    Handing over true will close the underlaying connection to the client and not just the namespace the client is connected to Socket IO Documentation     An example use case  Client did connect to web socket server with invalid access token  access token handed over to web socket server with connection params   Web socket server notifies the client that it is going to close the connection  because of his invalid access token        1  the server code emits socket emit  invalidAccessToken   function data        console log data             4  server receives  invalidAccessTokenEmitReceived  from client     socket disconnect true       5  force disconnect client           2  the client code listens to event    client on  invalidAccessToken    name  fn    gt                3  the client ack emits to server        fn  invalidAccessTokenEmitReceived

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use       socket Disconnect     ok   do not use       socket disconnect

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Checking this morning it appears it is now   socket close     https   socket io docs client-api  socket-close

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For those who found this on google - there is a solution for this right now   Socket disconnect   kicks the client  server-side   No chance for the client to stay connected

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Any reason why you can t have the server emit a message to the client that makes it call the disconnect function   On client   socket emit  forceDisconnect      On Server   socket on  forceDisconnect   function        socket disconnect

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socket disconnect   can be used only on the client side  not on the server side   Client emit  disconnect   triggers the disconnection event on the server  but does not effectively disconnect the client  The client is not aware of the disconnection   So the question remain   how to force a client to disconnect from server side

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I am using on the client side socket disconnect       client emit  disconnect   didnt work for me

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Add new socket connections to an array and then when you want to close all - loop through them and disconnect   server side   var socketlist           io sockets on  connection   function  socket            socketlist push socket                  other code for connection here                  close remote sockets     socketlist forEach function socket                    socket disconnect

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Socket io uses the EventEmitter pattern to disconnect connect check heartbeats so you could do   Client emit  disconnect

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You can do socket   undefined in erase which socket you have connected  So when want to connected do socket url   So it will look like this  const socketClient   require  socket io-client     let socket      Connect to server socket   socketClient url      When want to disconnect socket   undefined

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Assuming your socket s named socket  use   socket disconnect

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Edit  This is now possible  You can now simply call socket disconnect   on the server side   My original answer   This is not possible yet   If you need it as well  vote comment on this issue

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I m using client emit  disconnect     client removeAllListeners   for connected client for ignore all events after disconnect

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client  onDisconnect   should work

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In my case I wanted to tear down the underlying connection in which case I had to call socket disconnect true  as you can see is needed from the source here

[socket.io] force client disconnect from server with socket.io and nodejs

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