HTTP Session Store

Simple package to use a Redis database a as session store for HTTP sessions.

For every session we store two key-value pairs (sid,uid) and (uid,sid). Here sid is supposed to be a "cryptographically secure" session identifier, whereas uid denotes the user identifier of the session owner.

Using the method create(<sid>,<uid>) the corresponding key-value pairs are stored in the database. The first entry of the key-value pair (sid,uid) has a timeout set to idleTime seconds, such that the entry is automatically deleted after this timeout. The second entry (uid,sid) has a timeout set to maxTime seconds. This setting is motivated by the idead that the timeout of the first key-value pair is reseted with every check of the session identifier sid, whereas the timeout of the second key-value pair is never reseted, denoting the absolut length of session. In order for the method check(<sid>) to return true (and to reset the session idle timer), both entries have to exist.

In the following code snippet we first create a pair of entries for session identifier 123 and user identifier abc, then check if the session is valid (and reset the idleTime), and finally get the user id associated with session identifier 123.

    const session = require('http-session-store')();

    session.create('123', 'abc');

    session.check('123').then(userId => {
      console.log(userId); // output abc
    });

    session.drop('123');

Installation

$ npm i http-session-store

Options

const session = require('http-session-store')([options]);

Property	Description	Default
host	Define host where redis database is running.	"localhost"
port	Set port where redis databse is listening.	6379
password	If set, client will run Redis auth command on connect.
idleTime	If there is no refresh call (method check), the session will be terminated. [seconds]	360
maxTime	This is the maximum lifetime of a session. [seconds]	3600

Tests

To run the test suite, first install the dependencies, then run npm test:

$ npm i
$ npm test