iPhone Make POST request, handle cookie

Question

I\'m hoping someone can shed some light on the following, I think I am heading in the right direction with this. I want to login to my server with a user/pass combo, then I

Answer 1

This should work:

NSDictionary *headerFields = [(NSHTTPURLResponse*)response allHeaderFields]; 
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.mywebserver.com/login.php"];   
NSArray *cookies = [NSHTTPCookie cookiesWithResponseHeaderFields:headerFields forURL:url];

Then you can know if the cookies array contains the cookie you want.

You could also call this after receiving the response:

NSArray *cookies = [[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] cookiesForURL:url];

Answer 2

Here is a possible solution using your current code:

1 - What you do at the beginning is good: setting the cookie policy generally.

NSHTTPCookieStorage *cookieStorage = [NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHttpCookieStorage];
[cookieStorage setCookieAcceptPolicy:NSHTTPCookieAcceptPolicyAlways];

2 - After that, in you requests, you need to specify that you want to use cookies (in order to inject the session information):

[request setHTTPShouldHandleCookies:YES];

You need to set this field for the authentication and the subsequent requests.