iPhone/iPad WebApps don't allow cookies?

Question

When I use <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">, my page doesn't set, load, or retrieve cookies. Is there any way to get around this? I can't find anything useful in Google.

Bromley

Could you be more specific about how you set/retrieve cookies? I have made a web app for the iPad and cookies worked fine with JavaScript. – Lamina

I use the jQuery cookie script to set/retrieve cookies. It works fine without the 'apple-mobile-web-app-capable' code but with it it doesn't work. – Bromley

Answer 1

UIWebviews don't store cookies. Use HTML5 local storage instead.

Jackofalltrades

I would use localstorage but I have a number of scripts including one that uses authentication that stores information in cookies and it would be too cumbersome to change the scripts over. – Bromley

HTML5 local storage currently isn't XSS safe. If you're storing user credentials, you're opening yourself up for attacks. michael-coates.blogspot.com/2010/07/… – Cordless

So what's the best way to do this? If cookies don't work with UIWebviews and localstorage is not safe, what else is there? – Bromley

Maybe store credential cookies outside the webview in the keychain using native code? Then pass them back to known website URLs directly using CF network calls as needed when prompted from the web view? – Jackofalltrades

Can this be accomplished with a webapp? – Bromley

Hybrid. Web app + a bit of native app. If you're using a UIWebview, you have both. – Jackofalltrades

Do you have a link to the corresponding Apple Documentation? Thanks. – Honig

Answer 2

There is a small bug in the comment on the first line of jquery.cookie.js that iPads don't like.

Change /*! to /* on line 1.

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