ExpressJS & Websocket & session sharing

Question

I\'m trying to make a chat application based on Node.js. I\'d like to force websocket server (ws library) to using ExpressJS session system. Unfortunately, I\'ve got stuck.

Answer 1

I was able to get this working. I think you need to specify the secret on cookieParser instead of session store.

Example from my app:

var app = express();
var RedisStore = require('connect-redis')(express);
var sessionStore = new RedisStore();
var cookieParser = express.cookieParser('some secret');

app.use(cookieParser);
app.use(express.session({store: sessionStore}));


wss.on('connection', function(rawSocket) {

  cookieParser(rawSocket.upgradeReq, null, function(err) {
    var sessionID = rawSocket.upgradeReq.signedCookies['connect.sid'];
    sessionStore.get(sessionID, function(err, sess) {
      console.log(sess);
    });
  });

});