Shared Cookies between WebView and HTTPClient?
android, httpclient, webview
Solution
Here is my code snippet that finally worked (its pseudo code as in parts of it were ripped out of my project and some things like calling MyApplication via a Singleton were more to illustrate what to do rather than how it should be done with best practices):
http://gist.github.com/610754
Problem
An Android app I am building requires web authentication for users to make data calls. In Adobe AIR and later the iPhone, we did this by rendering a login page in a webview-equivalent page and setting a cookie when the user signs in. Subsequent data calls use the same Cookie Jar and so are seen as authenticated. In the Android version, I authenticate the user using a WebView and then once thats done, I make a data call using DefaultHttpClient, however I cant seem to load the data on the second call. Is there some cookie gotcha I am missing? I imagine the HTTPClient and WebView would share the same Cookie space. Am I wrong?