Set Cookie for UIWebView requests

Question

I want to embed an UIWebView into my MonoTouch application for an area that is not yet implemented natively.

In order to authenticate with the website I

Answer 1

This might give you a lead. Previously I used a similar strategy to make a

WebRequest to a site and collect cookies which were stored in the .Net/Mono CookieStore. Then when loading a url in the UIWebView I copied those cookies over to the NSHttpCookieStorage.

public NSHttpCookieStorage _cookieStorage; 

    /// 

    /// Convert the .NET cookie storage to the iOS NSHttpCookieStorage with Login Cookies
    /// 
    void DotNetCookieStoreToNSHttpCookieStore()
    {
        foreach (Cookie c in _cookies.GetCookies(new Uri(UrlCollection["Login"], UriKind.Absolute))) {
            Console.WriteLine (c);
            _cookieStorage.SetCookie(new NSHttpCookie(c));
        }
    }