socket.io parse connect (>= 2.4.1) signed session cookie

Question

With the latest version of connect (as of 2012-07-26), I\'ve found the following way to get a session ID from socket.io that will work with a connect-redis store.

Answer 1

I was running into the same and just wrote a tiny module to abstract it. Here's how its usage looks like. It was written and tested using express 3 so should work fine with connect 2.4.x. Please let me know otherwise.

var SessionSockets = require('session.socket.io')
  , sessionSockets = new SessionSockets(io, sessionStore, cookieParser);

sessionSockets.on('connection', function (err, socket, session) {
  //your regular socket.io code goes here
});

For more details on how it works see https://github.com/wcamarao/session.socket.io