express middleware filter out localhost api calls

I’m running a Cluster/Worker configuration and I do internal api calls to localhost. Having configured the rate limiter as a express middleware, I get these internal api calls limited too:

const rateLimiterMiddleware = (req, res, next) => {
                rateLimiter.consume(req.connection.remoteAddress)
                    .then(() => {
                        next();
                    })
                    .catch(_ => {
                        var errorMessage = APIHelper.createErrorMessage(429, '', '', 'Too Many Requests');
                        res.status(429).send(errorMessage);
                    });
            };
            self.app.use(rateLimiterMiddleware);

It would be possibile to filter out localhost / 127.0.0.1 IP address so that the middleware would skip these internal api calls?

[animir]

@loretoparisi hey

rateLimiterMemory option name is wrong for RLWrapperBlackAndWhite. it should be limiter

const limiterWrapped = new RLWrapperBlackAndWhite({
    limiter: rateLimiterMemory, // !!!
    whiteList: ['127.0.0.1'],
    runActionAnyway: false,
});

[animir]

@loretoparisi hi, config looks right

you’re right, there was a bug with import

I’ve prepared a patch v0.19.6