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I am making an live - chat platform, but I cannot find a way to verify a users identity.

I do not have any code because there arent any errors.

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You need a way to uniquely identify the socket to each client, so you'd have to do something like this:

Login request to API > API retrieves user from database > Sends Response to Client > Create websocket connection in frontend, pass in unique id from database response through url params to wss endpoint > you can also do db transactions with this unique identifier to add more fine grained control for caching/session tracking.

It's hard to really give specific code examples if you're not sharing your code.

Gandalf The Grey
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  • Okay, I do not need a code example. I just would like to know if there is a way to get the identifier. I need it to be secure, so a google id would not work. I would also like it to be different after logging out and back in. Thanks in advance! – Liam Sholts Sep 27 '21 at 22:04
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I ended up solving this after reading this article. They used the express-session package and showed how to get the req.session variable from a socket.io event.

Liam Sholts
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