Add support for overriding stats logger's base URL

Author: francislavoie

config/websockets.php

@@ -80,6 +80,14 @@
          */
         'delete_statistics_older_than_days' => 60,
 
+        /*
+         * By default, the websockets server attempts to connect to whatever
+         * your APP_URL is set to. If running in a more complex environment,
+         * you may wish to override the base URL for internal requests to
+         * allow statistics to be collected.
+         */
+        'base_url_override' => null,
+
         /*
          * Use an DNS resolver to make the requests to the statistics logger
          * default is to resolve everything to 127.0.0.1.

src/Statistics/Logger/HttpStatisticsLogger.php

@@ -65,6 +65,19 @@ protected function findOrMakeStatisticForAppId($appId): Statistic
         return $this->statistics[$appId];
     }
 
+    protected function getUrl(): string
+    {
+        $action = [WebSocketStatisticsEntriesController::class, 'store'];
+
+        $url_override = config('websockets.statistics.base_url_override', null);
+
+        if ($url_override !== null) {
+            return $url_override.action($action, [], false);
+        }
+
+        return action($action);
+    }
+
     public function save()
     {
         foreach ($this->statistics as $appId => $statistic) {
@@ -79,7 +92,7 @@ public function save()
             $this
                 ->browser
                 ->post(
-                    action([WebSocketStatisticsEntriesController::class, 'store']),
+                    $this->getUrl(),
                     ['Content-Type' => 'application/json'],
                     stream_for(json_encode($postData))
                 );