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var CryptoCookie = require('crypto-cookie');
// create a cookie object
var cookie = new CryptoCookie(req, res);
// set a session cookie
cookie.set('sessionId', 123);
// get a cookie
cookie.get('sessionId');
// or
cookie.reqCookies.sessionId
// set a cookie with attributes
cookie.set('attrs', 'ok', {
maxAge: 500,
expires: new Date('2015-05-13T07:30:00Z'),
path: '/foo',
domain: 'www.example.com',
secure: true,
httpOnly: true
});
// remove a cookie
cookie.remove('foo');
// remove a cookie with attributes
cookie.remove('foo', {
path: '/foo',
domain: 'www.example.com'
});
// set cookie expires with GMT date string
cookie.set('expiresGMT', 'ok', {
expires: 'Wed, 13 May 2015 07:30:00 GMT'
});
// set cookie expires with ISO date string
cookie.set('expiresISODate', 'ok', {
expires: '2015-05-13T07:30:00Z'
});
// set cookie expires with local date format
cookie.set('expiresLocalDate', 'ok', {
expires: '2015-05-13 07:30:00'
});
// set cookie expires with milliseconds timestamp
cookie.set('expiresTimestamp', 'ok', {
expires: 1431922243259
});
// create cookie object with default options
// the default options will apply to cookie.set()
var cookie = new CryptoCookie(req, res, {
maxAge: 500,
expires: new Date('2015-05-13T07:30:00Z'),
path: '/foo',
domain: 'www.example.com',
secure: true,
httpOnly: true
});
// set a cookie and override some default options
cookie.set('defaults', 'ok', {
maxAge: 1000
});
/*
will equivalent to
cookie.set('defaults', 'ok', {
maxAge: 100,
expires: new Date('2015-05-13T07:30:00Z'),
path: '/foo',
domain: 'www.example.com',
secure: true,
httpOnly: true
});
*/
// create cookie object with keys
var cookie = new CryptoCookie(req, res, {
keys: [crypto.pbkdf2Sync('pASsWoRD', 'SaLt', 4096, 32)]
});
// set an encrypted cookie
// this will use hmac to hash the cookie name, and aes-256-gcm to encrypt the value
cookie.set('encrypted', 'ok', {
encrypted: true
});
// get an encrypted cookie
var value = cookie.get('encrypted', {
encrypted: true
});
// set a signed cookie
cookie.set('signed', 'ok', {
signed: true
});
// get a signed cookie
var value = cookie.get('signed', {
signed: true
});
// rotate keys support
var cookie = new CryptoCookie(req, res, {
keys: [
crypto.pbkdf2Sync('NEWpASsWoRD', 'SaLt', 4096, 32),
crypto.pbkdf2Sync('pASsWoRD', 'SaLt', 4096, 32)
]
});
// when we insert a new password at the beginning of the keys list,
// we still can get the cookie encrypted with old password
var encrypted = cookie.get('encrypted', {
encrypted: true
});
// and signed cookie as well
var signed = cookie.get('signed', {
signed: true
});
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The npm package crypto-cookie receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, crypto-cookie popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that crypto-cookie demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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