How to share sessions with Socket.IO 1.x and Express 4.x?

Question

How can I share a session with Socket.io 1.0 and Express 4.x? I use a Redis Store, but I believe it should not matter. I know I have to use a middleware to look at cookies a

Answer 1

Using Bradley Lederholz's answer, this is how I made it work for myself. Please refer to Bradley Lederholz's answer, for more explanation.

var app = express();
var server  = require('http').createServer(app);
var io = require('socket.io');
var cookieParse = require('cookie-parser')();
var passport = require('passport');
var passportInit = passport.initialize();
var passportSession = passport.session();
var session = require('express-session');
var mongoStore = require('connect-mongo')(session);
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var sessionMiddleware = session({
  secret: 'some secret',
  key: 'express.sid',
  resave: true,
  httpOnly: true,
  secure: true,
  ephemeral: true,
  saveUninitialized: true,
  cookie: {},
  store:new mongoStore({
  mongooseConnection: mongoose.connection,
  db: 'mydb'
  });
});

app.use(sessionMiddleware);
io = io(server);
io.use(function(socket, next){
  socket.client.request.originalUrl = socket.client.request.url;
  cookieParse(socket.client.request, socket.client.request.res, next);
});

io.use(function(socket, next){
  socket.client.request.originalUrl = socket.client.request.url;
  sessionMiddleware(socket.client.request,   socket.client.request.res, next);
});

io.use(function(socket, next){
  passportInit(socket.client.request, socket.client.request.res, next);
});

io.use(function(socket, next){
  passportSession(socket.client.request, socket.client.request.res, next);
});

io.on('connection', function(socket){
  ...
});

... 
server.listen(8000);