Send custom data along with handshakeData in socket.io?

Question

So I have an application running node js with socket.io as a backend and normal javascript as frontend. My application has a login system which currently simply has the clie

Answer 1

This has now been changed in v1.0.0. See the migration docs

basically,

io.set('authorization', function (handshakeData, callback) {
  // make sure the handshake data looks good
  callback(null, true); // error first, 'authorized' boolean second 
});

becomes :

  io.use(function(socket, next) {
  var handshakeData = socket.request;
  // make sure the handshake data looks good as before
  // if error do this:
    // next(new Error('not authorized');
  // else just call next
  next();
});