How can I find the session Id when using express / connect and a session store?

req.sessionID will provide you the session's ID, where req is a request object.

For recent readers;

Connect middlewares are not included in Express since version 4.

So in order to have req.sessionID work you must do following:

1. Make sure you have cookie-parser abd express-session modules inside your package.json. If it's not added, add them:

npm install express-session --savenpm install cookie-parser --save

2. Be careful about the order while requiring them in your app.js file and add required configuration parameters.

var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');var session = require('express-session')app.use(cookieParser());app.use(session({    secret: '34SDgsdgspxxxxxxxdfsG', // just a long random string    resave: false,    saveUninitialized: true}));

3. Now you should be using req.sessionID and req.session.id.

Store the SID with the account, when the user logs in during the database validation of the user account call .destroy(sid, fn), then update the SID in the database with the current SID of the user.

In my case using MongoDB this is how i've done it:

app.post('/login', function(req, res){  var sid = req.sessionID;  var username = req.body.user;  var password = req.body.pass;  users.findOne({username : username, password : password}, function(err, result)  {     ...    sessionStore.destroy(result.session, function(){       ...       users.update({_id: result._id}, {$set:{"session" : sid}});       ...    }    ...  }}