expressjs/session

Request: a getSession method?

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#322 opened on Jun 14, 2016

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Description

I'm working with an application that has other means of communication the do not go through the middleware. I have managed to do a hack job of unsigning cookies on the outside requests, but it would be nice to have a method as part of the middleware to take either a cookie string or a request object and return the session data.

Hope you'll consider the request

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Research direction
Investigate how the current session middleware handles cookie parsing and session storage, then implement a getSession method that accepts a cookie string or request object and returns the session data.
Tech stack
javascriptnodejsexpress
Domain
backend
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Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Fresh
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Clear
Prerequisites
Node.jsExpress
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75