I opened issue https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/802.

Maybe it would be possible to write an API like this:

/**Upon successful completion, returns the public key used for the message, if 
available, or else the null pointer. */
char *zmq_msg_who (zmq_msg_t *msg);



On Jan 1, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmm... this isn't going to be that easy. The connection doesn't have
> an identity until after it's authenticated. This means the only
> plausible solution is to provide authentication metadata to the
> zmq_msg API.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote:
>> There's no issue open for this. Feel free to create one (we use the
>> github issue tracker now). I'll start by changing ZAP to provide the
>> client id.
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Drew Crawford <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> Ok. Is there an issue open for this?
>>> 
>>> I'd be happy to take a run at it if that will help get it in the next 
>>> release, although I can see from this thread that I'm probably not 
>>> qualified to get it right the first time.
>>> 
>>> Drew
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 1, 2014, at 8:18 AM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Drew Crawford <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> 2. we publish all ZAP replies to a secondary inproc:// socket (PUB-SUB)
>>>>> 
>>>>> This also seems curious.  I’m wondering if you’re envisioning a more 
>>>>> complicated ZAP handler in some faraway module as “typical” than the one 
>>>>> I plan on writing.  Basically my entire interest in ZAP is in using it to 
>>>>> solve this “who is sending me / are they allowed to send me this message” 
>>>>> problem.  If ZAP isn’t the right way to do that, it’s probably worth me 
>>>>> learning what ZAP is actually for, as that means my mental model isn’t 
>>>>> right.
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe it's curious, yes. I'm thinking the ZAP handler has all the
>>>> information we need to correlate client IDs (the first frame on the
>>>> ROUTER message) with metadata and can provide this to apps in some
>>>> way.
>>>> 
>>>> Either it's via libzmq, or it's via another inproc:// path to apps.
>>>> There are a few plausible patterns for that.
>>>> 
>>>> Passing the client ID back out in replies is probably silly, yes.
>>>> 
>>>> -Pieter
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