WebView iOS cookie issue

Tell us about the problem

web-view for iOS is not automatically passing the cookies after the recent change of iOS UIWebView to WKWebView(https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/pull/5093)

Previous Nativescript “web-view” was using UIWebView and native code cookies(using NSURLConnection/NSURISession) is shared and the application worked fine.

We are using this feature for authentication cookies to be shared between native and web-view.

Also, I don’t see easy way to set the http cookie for the current NativeScript web-view ui control.

Take a look the following link for ways to set cookie for WKWebView

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26573137/can-i-set-the-cookies-to-be-used-by-a-wkwebview

Which platform(s) does your issue occur on?

iOS

Please provide the following version numbers that your issue occurs with:

• CLI: (run tns --version to fetch it)

$ tns --version
3.5.0-2017-12-20-10289

• Cross-platform modules: (check the ‘version’ attribute in the node_modules/tns-core-modules/package.json file in your project)

  "typings": "tns-core-modules.d.ts",
  "version": "3.4.0"

• Runtime(s): (look for the "tns-android" and "tns-ios" properties in the package.json file of your project)

   "tns-ios": {
      "version": "3.4.0-rc-2017-12-4-1"
    }

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[itsEspen]

This is how I solved it.

Template: <WebView [src]="html"></WebView>

OnNgInit:

this.http.get(url, {withCredentials: true, responseType: 'text'})
  .subscribe(res =>{
            this.html = res;
        });

[manoldonev]

The native method signature is setCookie:completionHandler: and it is translated to setCookieCompletionHandler(cookie: NSHTTPCookie, completionHandler: () => void): void; in NativeScript.

Check this article here on how to have access and Intellisense for the native APIs in TypeScript.