Setting a cookie in an iPhone App

Question

Is it possible to set a cookie in an iPhone Application that persists, so that later when the user is in Mobile Safari, that cookie can be sent to a webserver?

Answer 1

I believe this is made easy by using the ASIHTTPRequest Library. It encapsulates the use of the global cookie store.

http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/How-to-use

You can make requests with this library which will accrue cookies, and then these cookies will affect other requests later.

I use this to great effect in accessing authenticated APIs within my iPhone app.