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socket.io-session-middleware
Share connect/express sessions with socket.io 1.x
Setup
Example
Server
var socketSession = require("socket.io-session-middleware");
var session = {
store: new connect.session.MemoryStore(),
secret: "secret",
key: "mykey.sid",
cookieParser: connect.cookieParser("secret")
};
io.use(socketSession(session));
io.on("connection", function(socket){
socket.on("whoAreYou", function(callback){
//read from session
callback(socket.session.name);
});
socket.on("setName", function(data) {
//write to session
socket.session.name = data.name;
})
});
Client
socket.emit("setName", { name: "hans" });
socket.emit("whoAreYou", function(name) {
console.log("I am " + name);
});
//=> I am hans
A full featured example can be found in the example folder.
Notes
Make sure to fire a http request to initialize the session/cookie before accessing the session with socket.io. If you are serving the socket.io client with your node.js server this won't be a problem for you.