Shared instance of NSHTTPCookieStorage does not persist cookies

Question

I\'m developing an application where the server hands me a cookie to identify the user.

My successive requests need to have that cookie to have the response that the use

Answer 1

NSHttpCookieStorage loses its cookies because you didn't set the expiration time for cookies. Setting expiration time is necessary otherwise your cookies will lose when your app exits.

Here is a quick look how I stored my cookies during app exit and launch,

NSMutableDictionary *cookieProperties = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
[cookieProperties setObject:name forKey:NSHTTPCookieName];
[cookieProperties setObject:strValue forKey:NSHTTPCookieValue];
[cookieProperties setObject:@"myserver.com" forKey:NSHTTPCookieDomain];    // Without http://
[cookieProperties setObject:@"myserver.com" forKey:NSHTTPCookieOriginURL]; // Without http://
[cookieProperties setObject:@"/" forKey:NSHTTPCookiePath];

// set expiration to one month from now or any future NSDate of your choice
// this makes the cookie sessionless and it will persist across web sessions and app launches
/// if you want the cookie to be destroyed when your app exits, don't set this
[cookieProperties setObject:[[NSDate date] dateByAddingTimeInterval:2629743] forKey:NSHTTPCookieExpires];

NSHTTPCookie *cookie = [NSHTTPCookie cookieWithProperties:cookieProperties];
[[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] setCookie:cookie];

Hope this helps.