Apex session cookie in Safari

Hi all,
I'm hitting a restriction or security feature(?) of Safari in iOS. One of our Apex applications is a page that runs in an iframe on a site. Apex is installed on a server inside our own network and is accessable via dns: office.ourcorp.com (fake name, just to clearify the situation). We have a couple of different brands, that all have their own domains: brand1.com, brand2.com etc. All of these sites open the apex page inside an iframe.
That all works beautifully in all browsers, except in Safari in iOS. in iOS, the apex page isn't showing. It seams it's because of the session cookie Apex sets. Safari can't set an cookie from another domain (a cross domain cookie). Is there a possibility to turn off the session cookie?(ORA_WWV_APP_xxx)?
I also tried to set the 'cookie domain' option inside the authentication scheme to one of the domain names for our brands, but it still doesn't show up.
Does someone has a sollution?

I tried to do that. If you read my very first post in this thread, specifically "If I try to set a cookie in the page sentry function, it is breaking at the redirect line. Also, I don't think page sentry is the right place to set a cookie since it executes at every page.", I tried to set a cookie but it is throwing an error at the page.
I think all these complication is because I dont have a login page and I am using a HTTP header variable to validate the user. Given that, where should I set the cookie?
I also tried to do this:
- create an appliaction item called 'testuser'
- create an application computation to run 'before header' which sets the value of this to my HTTP header variable.
- When I retrieve the app item 'testuser' from a page, it is getting the correct value. But when I use this in the authentication scheme, it is returning null. Any idea why??
I know I am throwing a lot of questions. That is because I am trying a lot of approaches and each of them is posing a new set of challenges. I am actually looking for alternative ways to do what I am looking to do.
Thanks.
Shuba

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