How to manage Secure cookie with ASIHTTPRequest? - iphone

Question

In my ipad project i am using ASIHttpRequest to handle my webservice calls. I am also doing cookie management. My webservice calls are worked fine until i have changed my service cookies all into Secure one.
How to manage Secure cookie with ASIHTTPRequest?
Thanks!

Answer 1

According to the docs:
You can turn off useCookiePersistence, and manage the set of cookies for a particular request manually.
//Create a cookie
NSDictionary *properties = [[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init] autorelease];
[properties setValue:[#"Test Value" encodedCookieValue] forKey:NSHTTPCookieValue];
[properties setValue:#"ASIHTTPRequestTestCookie" forKey:NSHTTPCookieName];
[properties setValue:#".allseeing-i.com" forKey:NSHTTPCookieDomain];
[properties setValue:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:60*60] forKey:NSHTTPCookieExpires];
[properties setValue:#"/asi-http-request/tests" forKey:NSHTTPCookiePath];
NSHTTPCookie *cookie = [[[NSHTTPCookie alloc] initWithProperties:properties] autorelease];
//This url will return the value of the 'ASIHTTPRequestTestCookie' cookie
url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/tests/read_cookie"];
request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setUseCookiePersistence:NO];
[request setRequestCookies:[NSMutableArray arrayWithObject:cookie]];
[request startSynchronous];
//Should be: I have 'Test Value' as the value of 'ASIHTTPRequestTestCookie'
NSLog(#"%#",[request responseString]);
To make the cookie secure, just add this to the properties dictionary:
[properties setValue:#"TRUE" forKey:NSHTTPCookieSecure];
Just remember, secure cookies will only be used with HTTPS requests.