cookie-parser

Parse Cookie header and populate req.cookies with an object keyed by the cookie names. Optionally you may enabled signed cookie support by passing a secret string, which assigns req.secret so it may be used by other middleware.

Install

$ npm install cookie-parser

API

var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser')

cookieParser(secret, options)

• secret a string used for signing cookies. This is optional and if not specified, will not parse signed cookies.
• options an object that is passed to cookie.parse as the second option. See cookie for more information.
  • decode a function to decode the value of the cookie

Example

var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');

connect()
 .use(cookieParser('optional secret string'))
 .use(function(req, res, next){
   res.end(JSON.stringify(req.cookies));
 })

License

MIT