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Author: Santtu Lakkala <inz@inz.fi>
Date:   Thu,  2 Feb 2017 09:27:50 +0000

node.js and wordpress sessions

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+# node.js and wordpress sessions
+
+For a leetle project, I needed a way to validate a wordpress session from node.js. Wordpress uses a somewhat complicated session system, with HMACs and using part of password salt, and was unable to find a ready puzzle piece for the purpose. So I wrote my own.
+
+The result is [a javascript module](https://inz.fi/p/wpsess.javascript). Sample usage:
+
+	var wps = require('wpsess');
+	var vdtor = new wps.Validator('/path/to/my/wp-config.php');
+	vdtor.validate('value_of_my_logged_in_cookie', function (err, username) {
+	    if (err)
+	        console.log('Authentication failed: ' + err);
+	    else
+	        console.log('Logged in user: ' + username);
+	});
+
+It is way from perfect, but it works well enough for me.