Where cookie is managed in phonegap app with jquery?

Question

My native iphone app, developed with phonegap with jquery (so its browser based), can log in to web server and once logged in users can access their resources. The server sets session id in cookie once user is authenticated.

I do not have any trouble with this scheme but I am wondering where the cookie is stored because when I do alert(document.cookie), it returns empty string.

Is it possible that ajax function in jquery manages the cookie internally and send it along for every request to the same domain?

It seems iphone sandbox browser environment for each mobile apps. I think this could be the reason. — katsuya, Mar 31 '11 at 10:47

Felipe Brahm · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-22T00:25:51.653

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If you want your app to automatically manage cookies for you add this to your appDelegate.m file:

NSHTTPCookieStorage *cookieStorage = [NSHTTPCookieStorage 
                                      sharedHTTPCookieStorage]; 
[cookieStorage setCookieAcceptPolicy:NSHTTPCookieAcceptPolicyAlways];

If you want to manage the session information by yourself, you can do all ajax requests like this:

var request =   {
                url: my_server_url,
                success: function(response, status, request) {
                    var header = request.getAllResponseHeaders();
                    var match = header.match(/(Set-Cookie|set-cookie): (.+?);/);
                    if(match)
                        my_saved_cookie = match[2];
                },
                }

if(my_saved_cookie)
    request.headers = { Cookie: my_saved_cookie };

$.ajax(request);

In my app I was managing the session cookies by myself using the second method until I discovered the first method.

edited Jun 22 '12 at 00:25

answered Apr 28 '11 at 03:58

Felipe Brahm

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The first method doesn't work on my iOS5 simulator, looks like Apple changed the behavior. The second method works fine. – Chris May 23 '12 at 19:56
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This works fine for ajax request. But, how should handle for image & other resources. – iamjustcoder Feb 05 '13 at 11:14
@Chris: this method should work fine for iOS5, make sure you're adding the code on the right file. – Felipe Brahm Feb 05 '13 at 18:52
@gviswanathan: the first method should work fine for any request AFAIK – Felipe Brahm Feb 05 '13 at 18:53
But getAllResponseHeaders() method doesn't retrieve Set-Cookie, at least in Chrome – Ferex Mar 14 '15 at 15:34

Where cookie is managed in phonegap app with jquery?

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