Setting Node.js Express session expiration time in SessionStore in stead of in cookie
With the Session middleware, only the encrypted session ID is stored in the client side cookie. The expired date is stored as req.session.cookie.expires in the server side store. So we can add a custom middle to check whether current session is expired.
// ...app.use(express.cookieParser());app.use(express.session({secret:'yoursecret', cookie:{maxAge:6000}}));app.use(function(req, res, next) { // if now() is after `req.session.cookie.expires` // regenerate the session next();});// ...
I wrote the solution today as the project needed that.
Here it is:
https://github.com/expressjs/session/issues/173
There are instructions there.