HTML5 video/audio player on mobile Safari (iOS 7 & iOS 10) excludes cookies

Question

I have noticed that the HTML5 video/audio player (AppleCoreMedia) on mobile Safari on iOS 7 excludes all cookies, even first-party cookies. Not even sessions cookies are inc

Answer 1

I had similar problems with cookies on iOS 7.0.3, but they are fixed now with iOS 7.0.4. Let's hope it stays this way.

Answer 2

I had the similar issue with Safari. I was using <audio> tag inside the html loaded by jquery. Safari did not include cookies in the request for the audio source, therefore it did not load properly. But somehow it worked after I refreshed the page with CTRL+F5 - it sent cookies with this total reload...

I solved it by adding crossorigin="use-credentials"... Nasty problem.

Answer 3

I'm still seeing problems with iOS 7.0.4, unfortunately. Is the below consistent with what you're seeing or is this perhaps another type of issue?

My test server is running Moodle on Apache and one user can consistently replicate this with two iPads on iOS 7.0.4. The HTTP 407s in the logs below is a Moodle thing. As you can see the cookie is not sent with the range requests:

access_log:

xxx.yyy.zzz.227 - - [22/Nov/2013:23:11:18 +0000] "GET /pluginfile.php/21/mod_videofile/videos/0/trailer_test.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 200 3711807 "http://xyz.bitnamiapp.com/mod/videofile/view.php?id=2" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_0_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11B554a Safari/9537.53"
xxx.yyy.zzz.227 - - [22/Nov/2013:23:11:19 +0000] "GET /pluginfile.php/21/mod_videofile/videos/0/trailer_test.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 407 12818 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.11B554a (iPad; U; CPU OS 7_0_4 like Mac OS X; en_us)"
...

forensic_log:

+Uo-kj38AAAEAAH0O5MEAAAAJ|GET /pluginfile.php/21/mod_videofile/videos/0/trailer_test.mp4 HTTP/1.1|Host:xyz.bitnamiapp.com|Referer:http%3a//xyz.bitnamiapp.com/mod/videofile/view.php?id=2|Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate|Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8|Accept-Language:en-us|Cookie:MoodleSession=24gkspshgl8027k3l7p2cor631|Connection:keep-alive|DNT:1|User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_0_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11B554a Safari/9537.53
+Uo-kkH8AAAEAAB2cL4IAAAAA|GET /pluginfile.php/21/mod_videofile/videos/0/trailer_test.mp4 HTTP/1.1|Host:xyz.bitnamiapp.com|Range:bytes=0-1|X-Playback-Session-Id:DF1039A4-571B-4EB8-BFFB-EF07CD730CA2|Accept-Encoding:identity|Accept:*/*|Accept-Language:en-us|Connection:keep-alive|User-Agent:AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.11B554a (iPad; U; CPU OS 7_0_4 like Mac OS X; en_us)
-Uo-kj38AAAEAAH0O5MEAAAAJ
-Uo-kkH8AAAEAAB2cL4IAAAAA
...