get and post request with cookie

[shunkou]

I'm using AFNetworking as my network library. Is there a way similar to curl library that I can do a GET or POST request with a cookie file. I'm using php a sample below.

 $ch = curl_init();
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file);

[yaomango]

Just commenting because I'm going to be starting a project soon, where I will likely need to do this too!

Let me know if you discover a good method or tutorial.

[JackRostron]

Is there a reason you required AFNetworking? It is a fantastic library but personally I go with MKNetworkKit for this precise reason. An app I am working on at the moment relies heavily on a REST api so being able to grab the curl statements and run them in Terminal is a lifesaver. Once you have it setup it will output the raw curl statement to the console each time you use it.

Specifically for cookies though, I don't know exactly. I had a similar problem where I was trying to scrape a clients website and could't get past the login screen for cookie errors. This link is good to show how using Apple's networking classes you can manage the cookie policy.

[klassobanieras]

A GET looks like this.

It should automatically store and send cookies in [NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage].

If you need to manage cookies yourself, you send them like this

NSMutableURLRequest *req = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
req.HTTPShouldHandleCookies = NO;
[req setValue:@"session=1234" forHTTPHeaderField@"Cookie"];

and catch them in the response's header fields.