supply redis params as URL, à la redis-url? about connect-redis HOT 6 CLOSED

+1 for this feature - it's super annoying to parse these big dsn strings (parse.url can't event do it all the way without manual splitting) - also Note that redis-url is buggy - it doesn't work with dsn strings from nodejitsu for one. It parses the password wrong.

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at a glance i dont get what this request is for

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If I understand the thread then it's about being able to give a dsn string to redis instead of chopping it in bits - nodejitsu (and I think heroku) deliver long redis connect urls - something that even url.parse can't use since connect-redis wants just a password.

Example url that I would like to give to redis:

var redisUrl = 'redis://nodejitsu:nodejitsudb3051531232.redis.irstack.com:fd470c971946e8der75fbebb4@nodejitsudb305813frt232.redis.irstack.com:6379';

Something such as this would be really nice:

app.use(express.session({
  store: new RedisStore({dsn:redisUrl})
}));

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oh, im not too interested in that, redistogo makes absolutely no sense to me, but either way it doesn't belong in this module

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Why not? DSN are now pretty much standard and sometimes the only way to connect to some DBs - the host, port, pass is getting rather archaic. Connect-redis is actually the only piece of code that I have used in a years that can't use a dsn/uri

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you can always fork it, no harm in that

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