NSHTTPCookie expiresDate example in Objective C (iOS).

NSHTTPCookie expiresDate

Returns the receiver’s expiration date.

- (NSDate *)expiresDate

Return Value of [NSHTTPCookie expiresDate]
The receiver’s expiration date, or nil if there is no specific expiration date such as in the case of “session-only” cookies. The expiration date is the date when the cookie should be deleted.

NSHTTPCookie expiresDate example.

    NSHTTPURLResponse   * response;
    NSError             * error;
    NSMutableURLRequest * request;
    request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://temp/gomh/authenticate.py?setCookie=1"]
                                            cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringCacheData
                                        timeoutInterval:60] autorelease];

    [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error]; 
    NSLog(@"RESPONSE HEADERS: \n%@", [response allHeaderFields]);

    // If you want to get all of the cookies:
    NSArray * all = [NSHTTPCookie cookiesWithResponseHeaderFields:[response allHeaderFields] forURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://temp"]];
    NSLog(@"How many Cookies: %d", all.count);
    // Store the cookies:
    // NSHTTPCookieStorage is a Singleton.
    [[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] setCookies:all forURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://temp"] mainDocumentURL:nil];

    // Now we can print all of the cookies we have:
    for (NSHTTPCookie *cookie in all)
        NSLog(@"Name: %@ : Value: %@, Expires: %@", cookie.name, cookie.value, cookie.expiresDate);

    // Now lets go back the other way.  We want the server to know we have some cookies available:
    // this availableCookies array is going to be the same as the 'all' array above.  We could
    // have just used the 'all' array, but this shows you how to get the cookies back from the singleton.
    NSArray * availableCookies = [[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] cookiesForURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://temp"]];
    NSDictionary * headers = [NSHTTPCookie requestHeaderFieldsWithCookies:availableCookies];

    // we are just recycling the original request
    [request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];

    request.URL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://temp/gomh/authenticate.py"];
    error       = nil;
    response    = nil;

    NSData * data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
    NSLog(@"The server saw:\n%@", [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding] autorelease]);

Example of [NSHTTPCookie expiresDate].

    for (NSHTTPCookie *cookie in all) {
        NSLog(@"Name: %@ : Value: %@", cookie.name, cookie.value);
        NSLog(@"Comment: %@ : CommentURL: %@", cookie.comment, cookie.commentURL);
        NSLog(@"Domain: %@ : ExpiresDate: %@", cookie.domain, cookie.expiresDate);
        NSLog(@"isHTTPOnly: %c : isSecure: %c", cookie.isHTTPOnly, cookie.isSecure);
        NSLog(@"isSessionOnly: %c : path: %@", cookie.isSessionOnly, cookie.path);
        NSLog(@"portList: %@ : properties: %@", cookie.portList, cookie.properties);
        NSLog(@"version: %u", cookie.version);
    }

NSHTTPCookie expiresDate example.

if ([[[object url] host] rangeOfString:domain].location != NSNotFound)
{
    NSHTTPCookie*cookie = [DAHTTPCookie createCookieWithURL:[ck domain] cookieName:[ck name] expires:[[ck expiresDate] timeIntervalSince1970] cookieValue:[ck value] browserType:DARavenBrowser secure:[ck isSecure]];
    [_output addObject:cookie];
}

End of NSHTTPCookie expiresDate example article.