Calling Meteor server from Ionic app - Auth problem

Hi All,

I have an Ionic app that I'm trying to call out to a Meteor server. (I've developed a gulp customization that pulls all of my Meteor client files into a Ionic app so I can use the Ionic CLI. Happy to share if it is of interest.) Everything is working great except a weird authentication problem. I'm able to login successfully and hit the meteor server and get results. But, userId is null on the server, which obviously is a big problem.

Here's a repo that replicates the problem: https://github.com/kokokenada/ionicToMeteorLogin and a related stackoverflow plea: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35119689/how-do-call-a-meteor-server-from-an-ionic-app-and-have-it-respect-your-user-id