Pass additional data to socket.io server via io.connect

[ingo.f...@profitbricks.com]

I want to pass additional data (the current page that is requested by the client) when connecting to my socket.io server, so that on the server I can send notifications specific for these pages.

Sample Javascript:

// like this
var socket = io.connect("/websocket", {'foo': 'bar'});
// or this
var socket = io.connect("/websocket?foo=bar");

My simplified server code:

class MyNamespace(BaseNamespace):

    def initialize(self):

        self.spawn(self.redis_tick)

    def redis_tick(self):

        r = get_redis()

        ps = r.pubsub()

        # Can I access the parameters from io.connect here?

NAMESPACES = {

    '/websocket': MyNamespace,

}

def socketio_serve(request):

    retval = None

    if 'socketio' in request.environ:

        # Can I access the parameters from io.connect here?

        retval = socketio_manage(request.environ, NAMESPACES, request)

    return HttpResponse(retval)

I inspected various parameters passed to my socket.io-serve function but I could not find out how to access the parameters passed with io.connect.

How can I access "foo" in by socket.io backend code?