Set cookie in Webview in Windows Phone 8.0

Question

The app we created runs as a webview control after initial login process. We have to send a cookie(secure httponly ) to server as part of request after first time login for consequent logins.
There is no solution provided to set cookie in web view. Can anybody share a sample to set cookie in webview control in Windows phone 8.0 (Silverlight app)?

Answer 1

Hi Santhiyaraman,
Webview control is in windows phone 8.1 runtime app, in windows phone 8 is webbrowser control.
Webbrowser control does not provide some properties or methods to add custom cookie, but we can do this using the javascript. Code snippet looks like the following.
private void setCookie(string name, string value, string path = "", string domain = "", bool isSecure=false, string expires = "")
var sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.AppendFormat("document.cookie = '{0}=\" + escape(\"{1}\")", name, value);
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(expires))
sb.AppendFormat(";expires=\"{0}\"", expires); // should be a GMTString
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(path))
sb.AppendFormat(";path=\"{0}\"", path);
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(domain))
sb.AppendFormat(";domain=\"{0}\"", domain);
if (isSecure)
sb.Append(";secure'");
var cookieJs = sb.ToString();
Debug.WriteLine(cookieJs);
webBrowser.InvokeScript(cookieJs);
You can find more information about it from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13287409/windows-phone-webbrowser-set-cookies.
Please try and let me know the result.
Regards,
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