How to send authentication payload?

[paramsiddharth]

I am trying to use Postman to "connect" to a Socket.io server.

Using a regular client in NodeJS would look like this:

const io = io(url, {
    auth: {
        token: 123
    }
});

How to I pass this auth information while making a manual Socket connection? The documentations suggest that the new auth property is just query renamed, but I am unable to use query parameters in Postman to get it to work.

Yes, WebSocket requests in Postman are in beta. That could very much be the reason why I can't get it to work, but if any of you has tried this before and got it to work, please let me know. Thank you!

[darrachequesne]

Hi! You must include the auth object in the CONNECT packet:

40{"token":"123"}

- 4 for Engine.IO "message" type
- 0 for Socket.IO "connect" type
- and then the JSON-encoded payload

Please note that Postman now has first-class support for Socket.IO: https://blog.postman.com/postman-now-supports-socket-io/

[paramsiddharth]

Thank you for your answer!

Have a look at the screenshot. Can you please guide me where I should put the auth object, the query parameters, the headers, or the payload, before clicking "Connect"?

[darrachequesne]

Oh, I see, it seems the auth object is not supported yet. You can use the raw websocket then:

[imanfattahi]

Hi
I don't know why Postman doesn't support this important feature. You can easily use the Firecamp Google extension instead.

[paramsiddharth]

Thank you for the answer!