phonegap: cookie based authentication (PHP) not working [webview]

i figured it out:

you have to change the phonegap_delegate.m file and add the following to the init method:

- (id) init{       /** If you need to do any extra app-specific initialization, you can do it here     *  -jm     **/    //special setting to accept cookies via ajax-request    NSHTTPCookieStorage *cookieStorage = [NSHTTPCookieStorage                                           sharedHTTPCookieStorage];     [cookieStorage setCookieAcceptPolicy:NSHTTPCookieAcceptPolicyAlways];     return [super init];}

it enables webview to accept cookies from ajax requests

If your Phonegap AJAX requests are not firing callbacks like they're supposed to, this may be the reason.

If the response you're getting attempts to set cookies and you haven't done Michael's fix then your (jquery) AJAX request will fail quietly -- neither success: nor error: callbacks will fire despite the fact that the server actually received the request and sent a response. It appears you must do this even if you don't care about the cookies.

I hope this helps someone.

I didn't care about the cookies but just spent a few hours trying to figure out why the callbacks didn't fire!

There is a solution that works on android too:

Install plugin https://github.com/wymsee/cordova-HTTP to perform arbitrary HTTP(S) requests.

Replace XMLHttpRequest with the plugin alternative (cordovaHTTP.get or cordovaHTTP.post):

cordovaHTTP.post("https://example.com/login", {email: 'xyz@example.com', passwd: "s3cr3t"}, {}, function(response) {    console.log('success');    console.log(response);}, function(response) {    console.log('failure');    console.log(response);});

The response will contain status, data and response.headers["Set-Cookie"], that can be parsed for name, value, domain, path and even HttpOnly flags ;-)

Said cookie can be saved in LocalStorage and sent in subsequent requests (see cordovaHTTP.setHeader() or header parameter of .get/.post methods) to simulate an authenticated user on a desktop browser.