couchdb-generate-session-id v2.0.0

couchdb-generate-session-id

generates valid CouchDB session IDs using username, salt, secret & timestamp

Example

var generateSessionId = require('couchdb-generate-session-id')

var sessionId = generateSessionId(
  'pat',
  '24eb90e9e1343977b8323857287ffca4',
  '78875068a1979fb910d5d8f37d316aa4',
  1449689785
)

Arguments

How CouchDB does it using Erlang

make_cookie_hash(UserName, Secret, TimeStamp) ->
    SessionData = UserName ++ ":" ++ erlang:integer_to_list(TimeStamp, 16),
    Hash = crypto:sha_mac(Secret, SessionData),
    couch_util:encodeBase64Url(SessionData ++ ":" ++ ?b2l(Hash)).

Credits

All credits due to @christophwitzko, @indutny & @janl: https://gist.github.com/janl/4583f5eb4c0d8216cc5f

License

Apache-2.0