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Mohsen Shakiba
Mohsen Shakiba

Reputation: 1872

Swift - How to set cookie in NSMutableURLRequest

I'm trying to set cookie in my HTTP request and I thought that below code would work:

let request  = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: url)
request.HTTPMethod = "GET"
request.setValue("key=value;", forHTTPHeaderField: "Cookie")

but this code is not working. does anyone have idea how to set it?

Upvotes: 18

Views: 31828

Answers (4)

TimBigDev
TimBigDev

Reputation: 529

Swift 5

if let cookie = HTTPCookie(properties: [
    .domain: ".my.domain.name.com",
    .path: "/",
    .name: "myCookieNameKey",
    .value: "K324klj23KLJKH223423CookieValueDSFLJ234",
    .secure: "FALSE",
    .discard: "TRUE"
]) {
    HTTPCookieStorage.shared.setCookie(cookie)
    print("Cookie inserted: \(cookie)")
}

Upvotes: 8

Rishi
Rishi

Reputation: 793

This may be useful for some one(Swift 5). Avoid using NSMutableURLRequest in Swift. Instead follow the below snippet:

func request(with url: URL) -> URLRequest {
    var request = URLRequest(url: url)

    guard let cookies = HTTPCookieStorage.shared.cookies(for: url) else {
        return request
    }

    request.allHTTPHeaderFields = HTTPCookie.requestHeaderFields(with: cookies)
    return request
}

Upvotes: 7

Jeffery Thomas
Jeffery Thomas

Reputation: 42598

Updated answer for Swift 3

You want to look at HTTPCookieStorage.

// First
let jar = HTTPCookieStorage.shared
let cookieHeaderField = ["Set-Cookie": "key=value"] // Or ["Set-Cookie": "key=value, key2=value2"] for multiple cookies
let cookies = HTTPCookie.cookies(withResponseHeaderFields: cookieHeaderField, for: url)
jar.setCookies(cookies, for: url, mainDocumentURL: url)

// Then
var request = URLRequest(url: url)

Original answer for swift 2

You want to look at NSHTTPCookieStorage.

// First
let jar = NSHTTPCookieStorage.sharedHTTPCookieStorage()
let cookieHeaderField = ["Set-Cookie": "key=value"] // Or ["Set-Cookie": "key=value, key2=value2"] for multiple cookies
let cookies = NSHTTPCookie.cookiesWithResponseHeaderFields(cookieHeaderField, forURL: url)
jar.setCookies(cookies, forURL: url, mainDocumentURL: url)

// Then
let request  = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: url)

Upvotes: 28

Rujoota Shah
Rujoota Shah

Reputation: 1341

Here is how it works in Swift 3.x after you set cookie using HTTPCookieStorage

let cookies=HTTPCookieStorage.shared.cookies(for: URL(string: cookieURL)!)
let headers=HTTPCookie.requestHeaderFields(with: cookies!)
let request  = NSMutableURLRequest(url: requestURL!)
request.allHTTPHeaderFields=headers

Upvotes: 2

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