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POHow to authenticate iOS/iPhone users with remote web application and re-use authentication ticket in future requests to the same web application?
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  1. POHow to authenticate iOS/iPhone users with remote web application and re-use authentication ticket in future requests to the same web application?
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    copied!<p>I am building an iOS application and I need to be able to make authenticated requests to a Rails 3 application for various bits of data. The Rails 3 application is using omniauth and URLs like <a href="https://myapp.com/auth/facebook">https://myapp.com/auth/facebook</a> to, for example, authenticate users via facebook ... and once authenticated, stores the authentication in a secured cookie named "auth.""</p> <p>What I want to know is how to authenticate my users from the iOS/iPhone application, persist the authentication token and send it along with future requests to the Rails application?</p> <hr> <p><strong>Using ASIHTTPRequest I'm thinking of doing something like this:</strong></p> <ol> <li><p>Open a UIWebview, loading with a URL from <em>my</em> web application specific for the provider they want to authenticate with (e.g. myapp.com/auth/facebook for facebook or myapp.com/auth/yahoo for yahoo, etc....).</p></li> <li><p>On success, somehow parse out and store the authentication cookie in the iOS application <em>without</em> displaying the webpage folks usually see when authenticating via the website ... and instead closing the UIWebView and navigating back to another UIVewController in the iOS application.</p></li> <li><p>Somehow include the persisted authentication token with future web requests to the Rails application.</p></li> <li><p>I also want to allow users to allow the iOS application to store this information locally so they don't have to re-login to the remote application if they choose too.</p></li> </ol> <hr> <p>Is this approach appropriate? Is there a better way? And of course, how to actually implement the above?</p> <p>Thanks - wg</p>
 

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