AFNetworking and Cookies

Question

I\'m using AFNetworking as a network layer for my iPhone app which connects to a Rails server that uses Devise for authentication. If I sign in (with a POST call) providing

Answer 1

Cookies are indeed automatically stored for the lifetime of your application for any subsequent requests on a particular server. A good strategy would be to store the username and password in the keychain or in NSUserDefaults like this:

// Setting
[[NSUserDefaults standardDefaults] setObject:username forKey:@"username"];
[[NSUserDefaults standardDefaults] synchronize];

// Getting
NSString *username = [[NSUserDefaults standardDefaults] objectForKey:@"username"];

You may want to use this in combination with AFHTTPClient to send your credentials along with every request in an Authorization HTTP header.