But how does that help you get the cookie from a POST response and then set the cookie on the WebView.? I can't find anyway to add a cookie to a custom webview
On Jul 15, 1:26 pm, Jason Proctor <[email protected]> wrote: > >DGupta wrote: > >> So I'm attempting to connect to the Tumblr Dashboard using an HTTP > >> Post. The Activity uses a WebView and I do an http post after creating > >> the webview, but the redirect_to in the HTTP Post doesn't work with > >> the WebView. I know my post works and isn't throwing errors, however I > >> need the HTTP Post to work with the webview and am completely lost on > >> how to. > > >HttpClient and WebView are completely separate engines. Operations done > >in one will not affect the other. > > >If the Tumblr POST is setting a session cookie or something, you may be > >able to get that out of the HttpClient cookie jar and feed it to > >WebView, but I have not tried that. > > my application combines WebKit and "native" HTTP requests, so i've > messed with this quite a lot. i never managed to successfully and > reliably communicate cookies between WebKit and the Apache HTTP > client. the cookies come out of the WebKit cookie manager in a > convenient format to inject into any request, but it seems like the > Apache client only occasionally takes notice of them. i've tried > everything from dropping them into Apache's cookie jar to setting > them as HTTP headers, all that. > > going the other way might have more success, but in my application > the WebKit has to establish the session. my solution was to get rid > of the HTTP client from my application altogether and roll my own > HTTP. since then i've had 100% success with cookie-sharing. > > -- > jason.software.particle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
