socket.io-client-cookies-headers

Send cookies from nodejs in the socket.io-client (Monkeypatch)

What?

SocketIO use a javascript implementation of xmlhttprequest-ssl (github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest) which does not allow settings cookies due to the specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/) so this is monkey patch to set cookies and headers in the xmlhttprequest-ssl lib used by socket io (./node_modules/socket.io-client/node_modules/engine.io-client/node_modules/xmlhttprequest-ssl)

Most of the info was taken from here: https://gist.github.com/jfromaniello/4087861

Discussion: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client/issues/344 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client/pull/587

Usage

socket.io-client-cookies-headers usage (socket.io-client running on nodejs)

var newXhr = require('socket.io-client-cookies-headers');
newXhr.setCookies('mycookie=something');
newXhr.setHeaders({header1: 'val1', header2: 'val2'});
var socketIO = require('socket.io-client')('Somewhere only we now');

socket.io server (get cookies example)

var cookieString = socket.request.headers.cookie;
//You can use https://www.npmjs.com/package/socket.io-cookie to parse the cookies or something