iPhone manually set Cookies

Hi guys !!! You may have encountered situations where you wish to set some cookies through your app code.

There is a very basic procedure to do it.

1. Create a dictionary with all the cookie properties

2. Create a Cookie passing the property dictionary which you created

3. Set the Cookie using the NSHTTPCookieStorage class

First create a properties dictionary.

NSDictionary *propertiesUsername = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:

                                        @".yourdomain.com", NSHTTPCookieDomain,

                                        @"cookie_name", NSHTTPCookieName,

                                        @"cookie_value", NSHTTPCookieValue,

                                        @"/", NSHTTPCookiePath,

                                        [[NSDate date] dateByAddingTimeInterval:60*60*24],NSHTTPCookieExpires,

                                        nil];

Most of these are self explanatory. As you can see you have to set the domain, and path in addition to expiry date. I have set it to one day.

The next step is to create the Cookie itself. It can be done using the following method.

NSHTTPCookie *cookieUsername=[[NSHTTPCookie alloc] initWithProperties:propertiesPassword];

Then, get a handle to the NSHTTPCookieStorage and simultaneously set the cookie.

[[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] setCookie:cookieUsername];

If you want to check whether the Cookie was actually created, you can simply print them using the following code.

NSArray *cookies = [[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] cookies];

   

    for (NSHTTPCookie *cookie in cookies) {

        NSLog(@"----Name: %@ : Value: %@ :Expiration %@ :", cookie.name, cookie.value, cookie.expiresDate);

    }

That's it. Now you can use this method whenever you need to manually set the cookies !!!!