Enable Cookies in your phoneGap app and open http/ https links in safari

AppDelegate.m

- (id) init
{	
	/** 
	 * Enable cookies
	 **/
	NSHTTPCookieStorage *cookieStorage = [NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage]; 
	[cookieStorage setCookieAcceptPolicy:NSHTTPCookieAcceptPolicyAlways]; 
	NSHTTPCookie *cookie; 
	for (cookie in [[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] 
					cookies]) { 
		NSLog(@"%@", [cookie description]); 
	}
	
    return [super init];
}


- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
	NSURL *url = [request URL];
	
	if ([[url scheme] isEqualToString:@"http"] || [[url scheme] isEqualToString:@"https"])
	{
		[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];
		return NO;
	}
	else
	{
		return [ super webView:theWebView 
	shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request 
				navigationType:navigationType ];
	}

}

It looks like NSHTTPCookieAcceptPolicyAlways is the default policy in iOS5. Setting this doesn't seem to have the intended effect for me. My app still doesn't seem to be able to store cookies. Any ideas what else can be done?

hey @bringo, this was an old snippet. I have not tried getting cookies working in a webview in iOS5 and the code above was kind of a hack to get cookies to work the way I wanted in the phone gap project.

Thanks for letting me know. Looks like they added this to PhoneGap directly... not that it is actually doing what it is supposed to for my app. :(
https://github.com/callback/callback-ios/blob/master/PhoneGapLib/Classes/PhoneGapDelegate.m#L64

I know your pain, good luck with your app!