session - Get value for cookie connect.sid key in Express Node.js -

session - Get value for cookie connect.sid key in Express Node.js -

i'm creating session auth'd user , getting socket.io send me connect.sid cookie value, want find correlating value auth socket client.

does know how value of connect.sid key in express?

thank you!

i found thread useful: https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/issues/588

connect offers method parse signed cookie:

var cookievalue = connect.utils.parsesignedcookies(cookie, sessionkey);

you can reference connect module straight within express.

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