Accessing session cookies with NSHTTPCookieStorage

Question

Hi everyone,

I'm accessing a server's secure information and it sends a bunch of cookies to the App on request. The problem is some of the cookies are session only and when I use:

[NSHTTPCookie requestHeaderFieldsWithCookies:[[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] cookiesForURL:[NSURL URLWithString:theCookie]]

it doesn't return the session ones with the name JSESSIONID and causes issues. If I NSLog the full NSHTTPCookieStorage it displays the session ones so they are there, I just can't find a way to retrieve them out of the storage. Also, I've had a look through the cookie plist and the session cookies aren't stored there but I assume this is just due to them being session based.

Any help is appreciated.

Edit: This is a snippet of what I get when I ask for all cookies:

<NSHTTPCookie version:0 name:@\"TheNameOfTheCookie\" value:@\"A variable number\" expiresDate:@\"(null)\" created:@\"301196844.000000\" sessionOnly:TRUE domain:@\"THE URL\" path:@\"/\" secure:FALSE comment:@\"(null)\" commentURL:@\"(null)\" portList:[]>

<NSHTTPCookie version:0 name:@\"JSESSIONID\" value:@\"A variable number\" expiresDate:@\"(null)\" created:@\"301196866.000000\" sessionOnly:TRUE domain:@\"The Same URL as above\" path:@\"/path\" secure:FALSE comment:@\"(null)\" commentURL:@\"(null)\" portList:[]>

Now when I ask for the cookies based on the URL in the above cookies, first one gets returned, second one doesn't.

*note sorry about having to remove certain items, they are as expected and are not relevant for the question

Answer 1

Please break down your problem in pieces, first check if

[[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage]
    cookiesForURL:[NSURL URLWithString:theCookie]]

returns what you think it should return. If not, take a closer look at the value of theCookie.