JWT is not sent after socket reconnection

[Mangatt]

I have stumbled upon strange behavior - after socket is disconnected and connected again, new realtime events does not contain JWT (hook.params.token) which renders all reconnect process useless (= you have to authorize user again manually).

What to do about this?

[daffl]

At the moment have to store the token and send the authenticate event. When using the client this can be done with calling app.authenticate() again after a disconnect just like when the application is loading initially. The next version should probably try to do this automatically.

[tkornblit]

I'm also running into this issue. I've even done the following:

this.app = feathers()
        .set("user", JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('user')))
        .set("token", localStorage.getItem('token'))
        .configure(socketio(socket))
        .configure(hooks())
        .configure(authentication({storage: localStorage}))

Which I thought was going to be a clever hack.

The client-side hook picks it up successfully. But for some reason it's not available in the hook on the server side.

Using app.authenticate isn't going to work for me because i'm using the local authentication option and not JWT.

Any ideas?

[Mangatt]

@tkornblit I have solved this issue with following code:

const socket = io('http://localhost:3030/');

const app = feathers()
    .configure(hooks())
    .configure(socketio(socket))
    .configure(authentication({ storage: window.localStorage }));

socket.on('reconnect', () => {app.authenticate();});

Hope this helps.

[tkornblit]

Thanks mate. This was helpful.

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On Aug 19, 2016, at 2:17 AM, Mangatt notifications@github.com wrote:

@tkornblit https://github.com/tkornblit I have solved this issue with following code:

const socket = io('http://localhost:3030/');

const app = feathers()
.configure(hooks())
.configure(socketio(socket))
.configure(authentication({ storage: window.localStorage }));

socket.on('reconnect', () => {app.authenticate();});
Hope this helps.

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[marshallswain]

Closing this in favor of feathersjs-ecosystem/authentication-client#2