How can I stay logged in when web scraping with URLSession? - swift

Question

With my program I try to login and scrape the home page, however after I log in with a post request (in which the response says successful), when I try to get the home page it says my session has timed out.
I've tried using different types of session, modifying minor parts of the code, and Alamofire with no success
import Foundation
let session: URLSession = {
let configuration = URLSessionConfiguration.default
configuration.timeoutIntervalForRequest = 30 // seconds
configuration.timeoutIntervalForResource = 30 // seconds
return URLSession(configuration: .default)
}()
let url = URL(string: "examplesite.com")!
var request = URLRequest(url: url)
request.setValue("application/x-www-form-urlencoded", forHTTPHeaderField:
"Content-Type")
request.httpMethod = "POST"
let postString = "Email=exampleemail&Password=examplepass"
request.httpBody = postString.data(using: .utf8)
//log in
session.dataTask(with: request) { data, response, error in
guard let data = data, error == nil else {
// check for fundamental networking error
print("\(error)")
return
}
if let httpStatus = response as? HTTPURLResponse, httpStatus.statusCode
!= 200 { // check for http errors
print("\(httpStatus.statusCode)")
print("\(response)")
}
let responseString = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)
print("\(responseString)")
let urlnext = URL(string: "example.com/HomePage")!
//get page after loggin in
session.dataTask(with: urlnext) { datanext, responsenext, errornext in
guard let datanext = datanext, errornext == nil else {
print("\(errornext)")
return
}
let stringnext = String(data: datanext, encoding: .utf8)
//get page html
print("\(stringnext)")
}.resume()
}.resume()
// Infinitely run the main loop to wait for our request.
// Only necessary if you are testing in the command line.
RunLoop.main.run()
the results are a successful login {\"msg\":\"\",\"valid\":\"1\"}, and the html code of a time out page instead of the home page