scookie

scookie helps you securely persist JSON data to HTTP cookies for user login

Installation

npm

npm install scookie

GitHub

npm install https://github.com/martinrue/scookie/tarball/master

Initialisation

Call init to set the name of the cookie, the cookie secret, the unauthorised redirect URL and the cookie age (ms):

scookie.init({
  name: 'myapp',
  secret: 'z98Earn0TSBh50C',
  unauthorisedUrl: '/',
  age: 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
});

Login

Call login to issue a cookie containing data about the user:

var user = { id: 1, username: 'martin', name: 'Martin Rue' };
scookie.login(user, response);

response should be a connect-based HTTP response object capable of setting a response cookie. For example, the response object provided by both connect and express handlers will work fine.

Logout

Call logout to clear any issues cookies:

scookie.logout(response);

Get User Data

To retrieve data about the current session from the cookie, call getCookie:

var cookie = scookie.getCookie(request);

Check User Login

To determine if a login cookie has been issued, call isLoggedIn:

if (scookie.isLoggedIn(request)) {
  // client has untampered cookie set
}

Connect Middleware

To avoid constantly checking isLoggedIn, you can use the middleware function instead:

app.get('/account', scookie.middleware.mustBeLoggedIn, funtion(req, res) {
  // only called if client has untampered cookie set
});

Express Example App

var http = require('http');
var express = require('express');
var scookie = require('scookie');
 
var app = express();
var server = http.createServer(app);
 
app.configure(function() {
  app.use(express.cookieParser());
});
 
scookie.init({ 
  name: 'woooo', 
  secret: 'secret', 
  age: 3600000, 
  unauthorisedUrl: '/unauthorised' 
});
 
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
  res.send('Hello');
});
 
app.get('/login', function(req, res) {
  scookie.login({ username: 'martin' }, res);
  res.redirect('/account');
});
 
app.get('/account', scookie.middleware.mustBeLoggedIn, function(req, res) {
  var cookie = scookie.getCookie(req);
  res.send('account for: ' + cookie.username);
});
 
server.listen(1234);