Android - send session cookies

[Chandragandla]

Hi,
I am using RN@0.34, RNFB@0.10.1-beta.3 and node/express.

Below is the code I use to send the uploaded document.

return RNFetchBlob.fetch('POST', nodeUrl, { 'Content-Type' : 'multipart/form-data', }, [{ name : 'file', filename : 'sample.png', data : wrappedURI }])
Session cookies are sent correctly for iOS , but for android, cookies are not being sent and user is getting logged out.

How can I inlcude credentials: 'include', with the request ?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Jacse]

I need to be able to download documents from a "logged in" session on a web server. All is working well on iOS where the Cookies are sent, but it fails on Android. A fix would be much welcome.

[wkh237]

Cookie support is still work in progress, and I think there is still a lot of problems need to be solved.

Besides, you can have a look at RNFetchBlob.net, and add cookies manually into headers.

[Jacse]

@wkh237 Cool, thanks. Can't quite get it to work with a specific host, but for now I'll just grab all hosts.

[zuzuviewer]

@wkh237 ,@Jacse,could you please tell me how to add cookies manually into headers.I add 'Cookie',but it didn't work

[wkh237]

@zuzuviewer , it's not supported ATM, I'll add this one when I have time. Please have a look #157

[Jacse]

@zuzuviewer unfortunately I was only able to retrieve the cookies, not send them again. As you say, they are not sent in the request even when added as a header.
@wkh237 let me know if I can do anything to speed things up, not very strong i Java though.

[Jacse]

I've done some testing and it seems that RNFetchBlob completely ignores the specified Cookie-header. It does send cookies, but only cookies that are set through RNFetchBlob-fetches, not regular fetches. This leads to having two different sets of cookies for RNFetchBlob and regular fetch.

[Jacse]

What I described in my previous post happens due to line #303 in RNFetchBlobReq.java: clientBuilder.cookieJar(new RNFBCookieJar()); As this sets a new custom cookie jar.

I got it all working by deleting said line and using facebooks OkHttpClientProvider.getOkHttpClient(); instead of initializing a new OkHttpClient. In this way, cookies set in a regular fetch persist across fetches in RNFetchBlob as well.

[nikolaiwarner]

@Jacse Do you have a branch going with that fix?

[Jacse]

@nikolaiwarner I do now: #388 👍

[MEDLJosh]

@Jacse I am having the same problem as the original person. I need to use credentials: 'include' to pass cookies to the API. Can you provide an example of how to do this with your merged code?

[Jacse]

@MEDLJosh it should work straight out of the box. If you use the regular fetch to get cookies, these cookies should be sent along with your react-native-fetch-blob request as well.