Cookies not going through with WebView.navigateWithHttpRequestMessage()

Question

        var webview = document.getElementById("WebView");
        var httpRequestMessage = new Windows.Web.Http.HttpRequestMessage(
                Windows.Web.Http.HttpMethod.get,
                new Windows.Foundation.Uri("https://someurl.com")
            );

        httpRequestMessage.headers.cookie.tryParseAdd("onecookie=a;somecookie=b");

        webview.navigateWithHttpRequestMessage(httpRequestMessage);

This code is called after the complete promise after WinJS.UI.processAll(). In fiddler I see that the request looks like this:

GET https://someurl.com HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */*
Accept-Language: en-US
X-P2P-PeerDist: Version=1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; Trident/7.0; Touch; MSAppHost/2.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
UA-CPU: AMD64
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, peerdist
Host: someurl.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
X-P2P-PeerDistEx: MinContentInformation=1.0, MaxContentInformation=1.0

The webview is defined in a `HubSection` in html as follows:

    <x-ms-webview id="WebView" width="100%" height="100%" />

This must be a bug. I step through and the cookies are set correctly, but the webview just seems to ignore them. Any workarounds?

Answer 1

Check out this blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wsdevsol/archive/2014/04/03/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-webview-_2d00_-an-update-for-windows-8.1.aspx ,especially the section: "Had it have it : NavigateWithHttpRequestMessage"

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Answer 2

That link doesn't work; try this one instead:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wsdevsol/archive/2014/04/03/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-webview-_2d00_-an-update-for-windows-8.1.aspx

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Network Developer Experience Team (Microsoft)