Reading cookie information from a WebSocket request

Question

I'm using Node.js and WebSocket-Node (WebSocket-Node) to create a WebService. I need to access the cookie or session information from the web server to tie the WebSocket connection to a user id. I know that the cookie information is being send via req.cookies, but I'm not familiar with the syntax to access the "connect.sid" cookie.

Thanks!

Answer 1

By looking at the library code (around line 200):

https://github.com/Worlize/WebSocket-Node/blob/master/lib/WebSocketRequest.js

it seems that cookies is an array of object with "name" and "value" properties

So you can have a function like this (not tested):

function getSidFromCookies(cookies) {
     var filtered = cookies.filter(function(obj) {
         return obj.name == 'connect.sid';
     });
     return filtered.length > 0 ? filtered[0].value : null;
}

then you can just do:

var connectSid = getSidFromCookies(req.cookies);

connectSid will either be the cookie value or null