Ws: Websocket Client with Request's cookie jar

Created on 2 Jul 2018 · 7Comments · Source: websockets/ws

I'm trying to connect one nodejs client to a nodejs server through websockets, but setup is done using http to login to the server. This is so that the Main server can "recognize" the client through its cookies. Here is how my session is stored:
const request = require('request');
var cookieJar = request.jar();
// an http request to login using the cookieJar

Where in the Websocket initialization can I put the cookies in?

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josephnormandev

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const ws = new WebSocket('ws://www.host.com/path', {
  headers: {
    Cookie: 'foo=bar; baz=qux'
  }
});

lpinca on 2 Jul 2018

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const WebSocket = require('ws');

const ws = new WebSocket('ws://www.host.com/path', {
perMessageDeflate: false
//cookie: cookieJar
});

Clarification:
Where in this code can I put an option for sending cookies as well?

josephnormandev on 2 Jul 2018

const ws = new WebSocket('ws://www.host.com/path', {
  headers: {
    Cookie: 'foo=bar; baz=qux'
  }
});

lpinca on 2 Jul 2018

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Closing as answered, discussion can continue if needed.

lpinca on 2 Jul 2018

this should be documented

Fxlr8 on 12 Oct 2018

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Feel free to make PR with a documentation improvement.

3rd-Eden on 12 Oct 2018

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It might be not obvious but it's already documented. https://github.com/websockets/ws/blob/master/doc/ws.md#new-websocketaddress-protocols-options

Any other option allowed in http.request() or https.request().

lpinca on 12 Oct 2018

having the option to reuse request's cookieJar would be a nice feature (path,domains,expire,...) ? it would ease the pain of parsing and handling of cookie to build a raw low level header