Dan Polivy created CB-8761:
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Summary: WP8: FileTransfer does not inherit cookies from WebBrowser
Key: CB-8761
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8761
Project: Apache Cordova
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Plugin File Transfer
Reporter: Dan Polivy
On Android and iOS (and presumably other platforms), the file transfer plugin
will inherit any relevant cookies from the WebBrowser control when
communicating with a particular domain. On WP8, however, that is not the case,
as HttpWebRequest does not share cookies with the WebBrowser control.
When cookies are used for authentication, and authentication is required for
file uploads, it becomes important to be able to set cookies on the
HttpWebRequest containing the upload. This should be supported on WP8 like it
is on other platforms.
I have built a solution to this problem that works; it essentially copies the
relevant cookies from the WebBrowser control and manually generates a Cookie
header for the HttpWebRequest. Due to some bugs in the version of .NET on WP8,
not all cookie data is accessible in this manner (e.g. path, domain), however
enough is there to get the job done.
This fix is more limited to only scenarios where the browser scheme and host
match that of the file transfer request to avoid any security issues with
cookies going to the wrong domain. In my scenario, I am hosting my web pages
remotely, on the same server I upload files to, so this works OK.
Unfortunately, it won't help with scenarios where the transfer is to a
different remote host.
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