My UIWebview is not saving cookies at all. It is stuck in cookieless mode and as a result, the webpage is putting the cookie information in the url instead.
Here is what I am doing. I have a singleton for my UIWebview and 4 UITabBar buttons on the bottom. Each tabbar button takes the user to a different page on the site. Now, when the user is navigating the site through the webview itself, everything is fine and session persists. But the second a user clicks on a tabbar button, the session gets reset.
I even set NSHttpCookieStorage to always accept cookies. Still no go.
Here is the code for my singleton for UIWebview and NSMutableUrlRequest
public static UIWebView instance;
public static NSMutableUrlRequest urlRequest;
public static NSUrlConnection connection;
public static NSHttpCookieStorage cookie;
static bool TokenSent = false;
public UIWebViewSingleton () {}
public static UIWebView Instance
{
get
{
if (instance == null)
{
Debugger.Debug ("new uiwebview created");
cookie = NSHttpCookieStorage.SharedStorage;
cookie.AcceptPolicy = NSHttpCookieAcceptPolicy.Always;
connection = new NSUrlConnection();
instance = new UIWebView(new RectangleF(0f, 0f, 320f, 416f));
instance.ScalesPageToFit = true;
instance.LoadStarted += delegate {
UIApplication.SharedApplication.NetworkActivityIndicatorVisible = true;
};
instance.LoadFinished += delegate {
UIApplication.SharedApplication.NetworkActivityIndicatorVisible = false;
AcquireUserId();
};
instance.MultipleTouchEnabled = false;
}
return instance;
}
}
public static NSMutableUrlRequest UrlRequest
{
get
{
if (urlRequest == null)
{
urlRequest = new NSMutableUrlRequest();
}
return urlRequest;
}
}
This is how I change to a page based on which button was pressed. The back button is working fine.
case BTN_BACK:
btn_ret.TouchUpInside += delegate(object sender, EventArgs e) {
UIWebViewSingleton.Instance.GoBack();
};
break;
case BTN_GUIDE:
btn_ret.TouchUpInside += delegate(object sender, EventArgs e) {
UIWebViewSingleton.UrlRequest.Url = new NSUrl(StaticFileNames.GuideUrl);
UIWebViewSingleton.Instance.LoadRequest (UIWebViewSingleton.UrlRequest);
};
break;
case BTN_HOME:
btn_ret.TouchUpInside += delegate(object sender, EventArgs e) {
UIWebViewSingleton.UrlRequest.Url = new NSUrl(StaticFileNames.BaseUrl);
UIWebViewSingleton.Instance.LoadRequest (UIWebViewSingleton.UrlRequest);
};
break;
Does anyone have any ideas as to why my UIWebView is not accepting cookies? I'm still confused about NSHttpCookieStorage and if I'm using that correctly.
Thanks a lot.