Question

I’m trying to send an authentication string via cookie in a NSMutableURLRequest. I’m trying to create the NSHTTPCookie through

 +(id)cookieWithProperties:(NSDictionary *)properties 

But nowhere have I been able to find how to specify the properties other than the simple key-value pair I have for authentication. When I only use my key-value pair, nil is returned.

Any examples, documentation, or thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

This is how you set properties in a cookie:

 NSDictionary *properties = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:                               url, NSHTTPCookieOriginURL,                               @'testCookies', NSHTTPCookieName,                               @'1', NSHTTPCookieValue,                               nil];   NSHTTPCookie *cookie = [NSHTTPCookie cookieWithProperties:properties]; 

In the example above: url, testCookies, and 1 are the values. Likewise, NSHTTPCookieOriginURL, NSHTTPCookieName, NSHTTPCookieValue are the keys for the NSDictionary object, as in key-value pairs.

You set/get properties using NSDictionary and add to NSHTTPCookie.