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I need to verify the users session of Drupal on a Node.js server. The session ID has been hashed and it is stored in the Drupal 8 database. How can I hash the browsers session ID to compare it with the one stored in the database?

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    Check out lib/Drupal/Core/Session/SessionHandler.php, specifically the read function. It uses Drupal\Component\Utility\Crypt::hashBase64($sid). Apr 29, 2017 at 23:10
  • Do you mean compare it with Node.js code? I am not sure you can.
    – apaderno
    Apr 30, 2017 at 7:30

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I see that no one has put up an answer for quite a while, so I will put it up here. This has been correctly answered by RaisinBrainCrunch above.

Drupal 8 hashes its session ID before it puts it in the database. The hash function used is hashBase64($sid) under Drupal\Component\Utility\Crypt.

Therefore, I am guessing you will have to write the same function in Node. This is the full function:

public static function hashBase64($data) {
  $hash = base64_encode(hash('sha256', $data, TRUE));
  // Modify the hash so it's safe to use in URLs.
  return str_replace(['+', '/', '='], ['-', '_', ''], $hash);
}

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