In our iPhone app we use two cookies during server communication. One is a short session cookie (JSESSION), and the other is a long session cookie (REMEMBER ME). If an answer comes from the server, it sends a short session cookie, which I can find in the NSHTTPCookieStorage.
My question is how this storage handles the cookie's expiration date? So if the cookie expires, does it delete that cookie automatically, and if I try to get this cookie by its name from the storage after expiration, do I get anything? Or do I have to check the expiration manually?
My question is how this storage handles the cookie's expiration date?
NSHTTPCookieStorage stores the NSHTTPCookie objects that has expiration date as one of its property.
So if the cookie expires, does it delete that cookie automatically, and if I try to get this cookie by it's name from the storage after expiration, do I get anything? Or do I have to check the expiration manually?
You should check manually for expiration and delete the cookie yourself
As it is referred in http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSHTTPCookie_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/cl/NSHTTPCookie
The receiver’s expiration date, or nil if there is no specific expiration date such as in the case of “session-only” cookies. The expiration date is the date when the cookie should be deleted.