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Reputation: 3603

ASP.NET MVC authentication for iPhone application

This is for an ASP.NET MVC application. For browser based access on my normal controllers, I'm using standard forms authentication and auth cookies.

My question is how I do the same for an iPhone application. I have a set of RESTful controllers that the iPhone application uses directly, but I'm not sure how to go about authentication...

I was thinking of having a special Login method that returns the auth cookie. Then I can use the standard Authentication attribute on the ASP.NET MVC side, but I'm not sure how to handle this on the iPhone side? Can I store this cookie and have it automatically sent with every request?

Perhaps there's a better approach altogether?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1434

Answers (1)

Sheehan Alam
Sheehan Alam

Reputation: 60909

If it is RESTful you can use an NSURLConnection and send your server the appropriate HTTP headers the API requires.

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/URLLoadingSystem/Tasks/UsingNSURLConnection.html

Upvotes: 1

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