URLSession + Cookies

Using Swift
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How can I set URLSession to accept cookies and include them in additional requests?

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When you create the URLSession you can pass a URLSessionConfiguration, which has some properties you can use to change the behavior:

  • httpCookieAcceptPolicy, which determines when cookies should be accepted, defaults to onlyFromMainDocument
  • httpShouldSetCookies "determines whether requests should contain cookies from the cookie store" and defaults to true

It should accept cookies and include them on subsequent requests automatically.

Edit:
You can also grab the HTTPCookieStorage and query it for applicable cookies (via cookies(for:)). That will hand you back an optional array of HTTPCookie. You can pass the array to HTTPCookie.requestHeaderFields(with:) to get the header fields to set in requests if you want to do it manually.

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To be clear, by default you don't need to configure anything, URLSession should automatically store and attach the cookies it sees.

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Keep in mind that URLSession has different implementations on Apple and non-Apple platforms. In theory they behave identically, but that’s not always the case. So, if you’re having problems, it’s important to note which platform you’re testing on.

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