This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Note: This feature is only available in Web Workers.
The host property of a WorkerLocation object returns the host part of the worker's location.
A string.
// In a Web worker, on the page http://localhost:8080/ const result = location.host; // Returns 'localhost:8080'
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-workerlocation-host> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
host |
4 | 12 | 3.5 | ≤12.1 | 4 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 5 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 5 |
WorkerLocation interface it belongs to.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WorkerLocation/host