bug: Persistent Cookie Storage Issue in iOS App

[Nasmar]

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

Latest Dependencies:       

  @capacitor/cli: 5.1.1    
  @capacitor/core: 5.1.1   
  @capacitor/android: 5.1.1
  @capacitor/ios: 5.1.1    

Installed Dependencies:    

  @capacitor/cli: 5.0.4    
  @capacitor/core: 5.0.4   
  @capacitor/ios: 5.0.4    
  @capacitor/android: 5.0.4

Platform(s)

iOS

Current Behavior

We cannot achieve persistent storage of HttpOnly cookies in our iOS app using CapacitorCookies and CapacitorHttp plugins.

Our app successfully retains cookies and functions as intended under normal usage. However, when the app is terminated and restarted, it fails to remember the cookies, resulting in users being prompted to log in again.

Note that our Android app functions correctly, retaining the cookies as intended.

We are utilizing the native Capacitor Http module to make API calls.

Expected Behavior

When shutting the iOS app down, we expect that the app can retain the http only cookie to use our cookie authentication

Code Reproduction

import { CapacitorHttp, type HttpResponse } from '@capacitor/core';
const options = {
        url: url,
        headers: {
          'Accept': 'application/json',
          'Content-Type': 'application/json'
        },
        data: JSON.stringify(postdata),
        options: {
          webFetchExtra: {
            credentials: "include",
          },
        }
      };

const response: HttpResponse = await CapacitorHttp.post(options);
const resultAsJson = await JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(response)).data

capacitor.config.ts:

  appId: 'com.XXXX.app',
  appName: 'XXXX',
  webDir: 'dist',
  plugins: {
    CapacitorHttp: {
      enabled: true // This provides native http service support via patching fetch and XMLHttpRequest
    },
    CapacitorCookies: {
      enabled: true
    }
  }

Info.plist:

    <key>WKAppBoundDomains</key>
    <array>
        <string>XXXX.XXXX.XX</string>
    <string>XXXX.XXXX.XX/api/</string>
    <string>https://XXXX.XXXX.XX/</string>
        <string>https://XXXX.XXXX.XX/api/</string>
    </array>

Other Technical Details

npm --version output: 9.6.7

node --version output: 20.3.0

pod --version output (iOS issues only): 1.12.1

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[markemer]

Can you upload a sample project that we can use to test?

[jcesarmobile]

closing due to the lack of reproduction

[Nasmar]

I will make a sample project on it. Should i repost or is it fine here?

[robmarshall]

I am also having this issue.

[Nasmar]

@robmarshall look here for the solution https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/issues/6809

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