How to set a Cookie with a NSURLRequest?

Question

I\'m trying to create an login in my iPhone App.

NSURL *urlNew = [NSURL URLWithString:urlstring];
NSMutableURLRequest *theRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest req         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem with a WKWebView showing the cookie on a PHP page on initial load but the cookie was cleared when page was reloaded/refreshed. Here's what I did to make it work.

My WKWebView with the cookie setting:

WKWebViewConfiguration *webViewConfig = [[WKWebViewConfiguration alloc] init]; // empty for now
_awesomeWebView = [[WKWebView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame configuration:webViewConfig];
_awesomeWebView.UIDelegate = self;
[self.view addSubview:_awesomeWebView];

NSString *url = @"https://phpwebsitewithcookiehandling.com";
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];

// set all the cookies from my NSHTTPCookieStorage in the WKWebView too
[request setHTTPShouldHandleCookies:YES];
[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:[NSHTTPCookie requestHeaderFieldsWithCookies:[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage].cookies]];

// set the cookie on the initial load
NSString *cookie = @"status=awesome";
[request setValue:cookie forHTTPHeaderField:@"Cookie"];
NSLog(@"cookie set in WKwebView header: %@", cookie);

[_awesomeWebView loadRequest:request];

On my phpwebsitewithcookiehandling.com I used the following to verify it worked:

status is: " . $_COOKIE['status'];

    // Here comes the magic which set the servers SET-COOKIE header (apparently) so it works on consecutive page loads
    setcookie('status', $_COOKIE['status'], time() + (86400 * 30), '/');

    echo '
Blank reload';
    echo '
Javascript reload';

    exit;
?>

It worked for me after much trial and error. Good luck. :)