Question

I have a slight issue that someone might be able to point me in the
right direction. As I’m a web guy but have little knowledge of
objective c.

I am trying to retrieve some information from a website in javascript
in my project that requires me to post login information to it (no
problems there using Jquery $.post). The page I’m trying to return is
only accessible after logging in (in a browser the site checks cookies
and user-agents plus a bit of javascript leg work).

How can I create a hidden UIWebView that would do the login page
(there for creating the correct session variables etc) so that I can
retrieve the information I need?

Or is there a way I can get ChildBrowser Plugin to do this for me? If
so how would I tell the Childbrowser window to close once it has
reached the post-login page ?

Answer 1

I ended up finding some type of solution.
http://www.pushittolive.com/post/1239874936/facebook-login-on-iphone-phonegap

Using that example I was able to set up childbrowser to open the login-action page, then detect the change and close the browser window.