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socketio-jwt/README.md
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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/).
## Installation
```
npm install socketio-jwt
```
## Example usage
```javascript
var io = require("socket.io")(server);
var socketioJwt = require("socketio-jwt");
// set authorization for socket.io
io.set('authorization', socketioJwt.authorize({
secret: 'your secret or public key'
}));
```
For more validation options see [auth0/jsonwebtoken](https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken).
__Client side__:
For now the only way to append the jwt token is using query string:
```javascript
var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:9000', {
'query': 'token=' + your_jwt
});
```
Take care as URLs has a lenght limitation on Internet Explorer. I opened a [issue in engine-io-client](https://github.com/LearnBoost/engine.io-client/issues/228) to support headers.
## Contribute
You are always welcome to open an issue or provide a pull-request!
Also check out the unit tests:
```bash
npm test
```
## License
Licensed under the MIT-License.
2013 AUTH10 LLC.