I know this is bit old, but for future readers in addition to the approach of parsing cookie and retrieving the session from the storage (eg. passport.socketio ) you might also consider a token based approach.
In this example I use JSON Web Tokens which are pretty standard. You have to give to the client page the token, in this example imagine an authentication endpoint that returns JWT:
var jwt = require('jsonwebtoken');
// other requires
app.post('/login', function (req, res) {
// TODO: validate the actual user user
var profile = {
first_name: 'John',
last_name: 'Doe',
email: '[email protected]',
id: 123
};
// we are sending the profile in the token
var token = jwt.sign(profile, jwtSecret, { expiresInMinutes: 60*5 });
res.json({token: token});
});
Now, your socket.io server can be configured as follows:
var socketioJwt = require('socketio-jwt');
var sio = socketIo.listen(server);
sio.set('authorization', socketioJwt.authorize({
secret: jwtSecret,
handshake: true
}));
sio.sockets
.on('connection', function (socket) {
console.log(socket.handshake.decoded_token.email, 'has joined');
//socket.on('event');
});
The socket.io-jwt middleware expects the token in a query string, so from the client you only have to attach it when connecting:
var socket = io.connect('', {
query: 'token=' + token
});
I wrote a more detailed explanation about this method and cookies here.
