How to make apple-mobile-web-application not to lose a session?

Question

I have a web application.

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"> 

I put it there.

I am adding to the main screen.

However, I understand that I always need to log in again after closing the web application.

How do I save a session?

Answer 1

There is a simple answer, but so far I have not been able to find a link to it in the official Apple documentation.

The trick is this:

 // Start or resume session session_start(); // Extend cookie life time by an amount of your liking $cookieLifetime = 365 * 24 * 60 * 60; // A year in seconds setcookie(session_name(),session_id(),time()+$cookieLifetime); 

If you extend the lifetime of your session cookie like this, Safari will stick to the session cookie and even allow session sharing between the “home screen of the installed” version of your web application and regular visits via safari.

For a more detailed discussion, take a look at my answer to this question:

Maintain PHP session in web application on iPhone

Answer 2

I use a static class and a static variable, such as a dictionary (string, object) to store data when I have to access an external application. If you use FormAuthentication, you will notice

 User.Identity.IsAuthenticated = true 

but the session does not exist. you can use "User.Identity.Name" as the key to get the data in the dictionary.

This works in ASP.Net MVC3