Objective-C Asynchronous Web Request with Cookies

There’s a good example of using NSURLRequest and NSHTTPCookies to do a full web application example of logging into a website, storing the SessionID cookie and resubmitting it in future requests.

NSURLConnection, NSHTTPCookie

By logix812:

    NSHTTPURLResponse   * response;
    NSError             * error;
    NSMutableURLRequest * request;
    request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://temp/gomh/authenticate.py?setCookie=1"]
                                            cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringCacheData 
                                        timeoutInterval:60] autorelease];

    [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];  
    NSLog(@"RESPONSE HEADERS: \n%@", [response allHeaderFields]);

    // If you want to get all of the cookies:
    NSArray * all = [NSHTTPCookie cookiesWithResponseHeaderFields:[response allHeaderFields] forURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://temp"]];
    NSLog(@"How many Cookies: %d", all.count);
    // Store the cookies:
    // NSHTTPCookieStorage is a Singleton.
    [[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] setCookies:all forURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://temp"] mainDocumentURL:nil];

    // Now we can print all of the cookies we have:
    for (NSHTTPCookie *cookie in all)
        NSLog(@"Name: %@ : Value: %@, Expires: %@", cookie.name, cookie.value, cookie.expiresDate); 


    // Now lets go back the other way.  We want the server to know we have some cookies available:
    // this availableCookies array is going to be the same as the 'all' array above.  We could 
    // have just used the 'all' array, but this shows you how to get the cookies back from the singleton.
    NSArray * availableCookies = [[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] cookiesForURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://temp"]];
    NSDictionary * headers = [NSHTTPCookie requestHeaderFieldsWithCookies:availableCookies];

    // we are just recycling the original request
    [request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];

    request.URL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://temp/gomh/authenticate.py"];
    error       = nil;
    response    = nil;

    NSData * data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
    NSLog(@"The server saw:\n%@", [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding] autorelease]);