From 33bf930bb90579c4a1b6fe9a0221247db0959306 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@nodebb.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:49:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fixes #5528

---
 src/socket.io/index.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/socket.io/index.js b/src/socket.io/index.js
index 253f5628e1..ccabf242fa 100644
--- a/src/socket.io/index.js
+++ b/src/socket.io/index.js
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ function checkMaintenance(socket, callback) {
 function validateSession(socket, callback) {
 	var req = socket.request;
 	if (!req.signedCookies || !req.signedCookies[nconf.get('sessionKey')]) {
-		return callback(new Error('[[error:invalid-session]]'));
+		return callback();
 	}
 	db.sessionStore.get(req.signedCookies[nconf.get('sessionKey')], function (err, sessionData) {
 		if (err || !sessionData) {