I want to embed an UIWebView
into my MonoTouch application for an area that is not yet implemented natively.
In order to authenticate with the website I
Following Anuj's bug report I felt bad about how many lines of code were required to create the cookies. So the next MonoTouch versions will have new constructors for NSHttpCookie
, similar to System.Net.Cookie that will allow you do to something like:
// this ctor requires all mandatory parameters
// so you don't have to guess them while coding
var cookie = new NSHttpCookie ("iherd", "ulikecookies", "/", "yodawg.com");
You'll even be able to create a NSHttpCookie
from a .NET System.Net.Cookie
.
Note: Never hesitate to fill a bug report when an API proves to be way more complicated than it should be :-)
Whenever I need to send cookies and params up to the server I use something like RestSharp or Hammock and then pass the response.Content value into UIWebView's loadHtmlString method:
//setup cookies and params here
var response = client.Execute(req);
_webView = new UIWebView();
_webView.LoadHtmlString(response.Content, new NSUrl(baseUrl));
The NSDictionary API is fairly trivial too:
var props = new NSMutableDictionary ();
props.Add (NSHttpCookie.KeyOriginURL, new
NSString("http://yodawg.com"));
props.Add (NSHttpCookie.KeyName, new NSString("iherd"));
props.Add (NSHttpCookie.KeyValue, new NSString("ulikecookies"));
props.Add (NSHttpCookie.KeyPath, new NSString("/"));
AFAIK every application has its own cookie storage so try to use this code before rendering the page in the UIWebView
NSHttpCookie cookie = new NSHttpCookie()
{
Domain = "yourdomain.com",
Name = "YourName",
Value = "YourValue" //and any other info you need to set
};
NSHttpCookieStorage cookiejar = NSHttpCookieStorage.SharedStorage;
cookiejar.SetCookie(cookie);
I'm not in a MAC right now so im not able to test it hope this helps
okay sorry, i wasn't able to test it before posting, anyways I won't get home until tonight so give this a spin
var objects = new object[] { "http://yoururl.com", "CookieName", "CookieValue", "/" };
var keys = new object[] { "NSHTTPCookieOriginURL", "NSHTTPCookieName", "NSHTTPCookieValue", "NSHTTPCookiePath" };
NSDictionary properties = (NSDictionary) NSDictionary.FromObjectsAndKeys(objects, keys);
NSHttpCookie cookie = NSHttpCookie.CookieFromProperties(properties);
NSHttpCookieStorage.SharedStorage.SetCookie(cookie);
As you stated above, in the case that doesn't work might be a bug on monotouch binding so you can bind it manually by doing this
var objects = new object[] { "http://yoururl.com", "CookieName", "CookieValue", "/" };
var keys = new object[] { "NSHTTPCookieOriginURL", "NSHTTPCookieName", "NSHTTPCookieValue", "NSHTTPCookiePath" };
NSDictionary properties = (NSDictionary) NSDictionary.FromObjectsAndKeys(objects, keys);
NSHttpCookie cookie = (NSHttpCookie) Runtime.GetNSObject(Messaging.IntPtr_objc_msgSend_IntPtr(new Class("NSHTTPCookie").Handle, new Selector("cookieWithProperties:").Handle, properties.Handle))
NSHttpCookieStorage.SharedStorage.SetCookie(cookie);
also don't forget to include using MonoTouch.ObjCRuntime;
if manually binding it
if manually binding works please don't forget to post a bug report on https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/
Alex
This might give you a lead. Previously I used a similar strategy to make a
WebRequest to a site and collect cookies which were stored in the .Net/Mono CookieStore. Then when loading a url in the UIWebView I copied those cookies over to the NSHttpCookieStorage.
public NSHttpCookieStorage _cookieStorage;
/// <summary>
/// Convert the .NET cookie storage to the iOS NSHttpCookieStorage with Login Cookies
/// </summary>
void DotNetCookieStoreToNSHttpCookieStore()
{
foreach (Cookie c in _cookies.GetCookies(new Uri(UrlCollection["Login"], UriKind.Absolute))) {
Console.WriteLine (c);
_cookieStorage.SetCookie(new NSHttpCookie(c));
}
}
I’ve wrote the NSMutableURLRequest+XSURLRequest catagory and XSCookie class to do this;-) http://blog.peakji.com/cocoansurlrequest-with-cookies/