authentication in iOS - can you use cookies/session?

Question

I'd like to serve info from PHP to an iPhone app based on what user's logged in. Can I go the session/cookie route of authenticating requests from the app or do I have to use some sort of token authentication? Basically, can php leave cookies (same as on a browser) if i'm calling the services from iPhone app?

Answer 1

Yes - the NSHTTP methods handle cookies behind the scenes.

And you can configure behavior as well with NSHTTPCookieStorage.