cordova-plugin-cookies

This plugin returns the cookies from the webview for a specific url so the cookies can be used e.g. to get the cookies from cordova-plugin-inappbrowser and pass it to cordova-plugin-advanced-http.

• Installation
• Supported Platforms
• Limitations
• Usage
  • Plain
  • Extended

Installation

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-cookies

Supported Platforms

• Android
• iOS

Limitations

It doen't work with the UIWebView on iOS (It's deprecated by Apple).

Usage

Plain

// get cookie string from webview
window.cordova.plugins.CookiesPlugin.getCookie(url, (cookies) => {
  // log cookies
  console.log(url, cookies);
});

Extended

• Ionic v5 with Angular
• @ionic-native/in-app-browser
• @ionic-native/http

// create in app browser
const iab = this.inAppBrowser.create(url, "_blank");
 
// check for cookies on every loadstop
iab.on("loadstop").subscribe(() => {
  // get cookie string from webview
  (window as any).cordova.plugins.CookiesPlugin.getCookie(
    url,
    async (cookies: string) => {
      // set cookies to http plugin
      cookies.split(";").forEach((cookie) => {
        this.http.setCookie(url, cookie);
      });
 
      // check if connected
      if (await this.isUserAuthenticated()) {
        iab.close();
      }
    }
  );
});