session cookie issue on iOS

[bradyguyc]

I have been using the OpenLibrary.NET with a .NET Maui app and testing on android for quite some time now. I tested on iOS today and discovered a problem related to session cookies. It appears that when running on iOS th session cookie has a discard tag on it and is not available in the normal manner.

I pulled the source code down and created a work around. In openlibraryclient.cs

I added a property sessionCookie and changed the LoggedIn property as follows.

 string sessionCookie = null;
 public bool LoggedIn => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(sessionCookie);

In the LoginAsycn method I added two lines of code after the response.Ensure... line;

 var response = await _httpClient.PostAsync(uri, content);
 response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

   string s = response.ToString();
   sessionCookie = Regex.Match(s, "(?<=session=).*?(?=;)").Value;   

And updated Username as follows ` public string? Username => ExtractUsernameFromSessionVariable(sessionCookie);

private static string ExtractUsernameFromSessionVariable(string sessionCookie) => Regex.Match(sessionCookie, "(?<=/people/).*?(?=%)").Value; ` I doubt this is the best way to handle this but the work around seems to be working and the API's are working as expected.

copilot hinted at NSHttpCookieStorage, as a possible solution but that would require bringing in >NET Maui packages into OpenLibrary.NET and that didn't seem like a good idea. Which lead me to iOS binary cookies and I spent a little looking at the package NetBinaryCookie but could not get it to work. And not sure it would be any better than the workaround.

At this point I am having to use the replicated code base in my app so that it works on iOS. I'll keep testing and let you know if anything else enlighting comes about.

Thanks

[bradyguyc]

So what worked with iOS did not work with android. updated it as follows

string s = response.ToString(); sessionCookie = Regex.Match(s, "(?<=session=).*?(?=;)").Value; if(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(sessionCookie)) { sessionCookie = _httpHandler.CookieContainer.GetCookies(OpenLibraryUtility.BaseUri).SingleOrDefault(cookie => cookie.Name == "session").ToString(); Debug.WriteLine("sessionCookie android:" + sessionCookie);

basically first check the result for cookie with regex before the cookie gets discarded. if it's blank then use the orginal method to get the cookie.

[bradyguyc]

This is resolved with out code change when I recompiled openlibrary.net with .net 9.0; My maui app that I am using this with is in a .net 9 environment. So all that muck above is not needed once I recompiled and changed the .net version to 9.0;