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Authenticate socket.io incoming connections with JWTs. This is useful if you are build a single page application and you are not using cookies as explained in this blog post: [Cookies vs Tokens. Getting auth right with Angular.JS](http://blog.auth0.com/2014/01/07/angularjs-authentication-with-cookies-vs-token/).
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## Installation
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```
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npm install socketio-jwt
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```
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## Example usage
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```javascript
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// set authorization for socket.io
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io.sockets
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.on('connection', socketioJwt.authorize({
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secret: 'your secret or public key',
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timeout: 15000 // 15 seconds to send the authentication message
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})).on('authenticated', function(socket) {
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//this socket is authenticated, we are good to handle more events from it.
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console.log('hello! ' + socket.decoded_token.name);
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}));
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```
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**Note:** If you are using a base64-encoded secret (e.g. your Auth0 secret key), you need to convert it to a Buffer: `Buffer('your secret key', 'base64')`
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__Client side__:
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```javascript
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var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:9000');
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socket.on('connect', function (socket) {
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socket
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.on('authenticated', function () {
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//do other things
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})
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.emit('authenticate', {token: jwt}); //send the jwt
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});
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```
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## One roundtrip
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The previous approach uses a second roundtrip to send the jwt, there is a way you can authenticate on the handshake by sending the JWT as a query string, the caveat is that intermediary HTTP servers can log the url.
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```javascript
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var io = require("socket.io")(server);
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var socketioJwt = require("socketio-jwt");
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//// With socket.io < 1.0 ////
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io.set('authorization', socketioJwt.authorize({
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secret: 'your secret or public key',
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handshake: true
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}));
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//////////////////////////////
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//// With socket.io >= 1.0 ////
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io.use(socketioJwt.authorize({
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secret: 'your secret or public key',
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handshake: true
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}));
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///////////////////////////////
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io.on('connection', function (socket) {
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// in socket.io < 1.0
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console.log('hello!', socket.handshake.decoded_token.name);
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// in socket.io 1.0
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console.log('hello! ', socket.decoded_token.name);
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})
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```
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For more validation options see [auth0/jsonwebtoken](https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken).
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__Client side__:
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Append the jwt token using query string:
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```javascript
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var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:9000', {
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'query': 'token=' + your_jwt
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});
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```
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## Handling token expiration
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__Server side__:
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When you sign the token with an expiration time:
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```javascript
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var token = jwt.sign(user_profile, jwt_secret, {expiresInMinutes: 60});
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```
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Your client-side code should handle it as below.
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__Client side__:
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```javascript
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socket.on("error", function(error) {
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if (error.type == "UnauthorizedError" || error.code == "invalid_token") {
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// redirect user to login page perhaps?
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console.log("User's token has expired");
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}
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});
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```
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## Contribute
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You are always welcome to open an issue or provide a pull-request!
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Also check out the unit tests:
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```bash
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npm test
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```
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## License
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Licensed under the MIT-License.
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2013 AUTH10 LLC.
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