Can you view your cookies on your iPhone?

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Level 1

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Can you view your cookies on your iPhone?

Hey,

I know that you can go into your settings and hit Safari and look at your security settings, choose how you would like to accept your cookies and delete cookies, cache and clear your history. But is there a way that you can actually view your cookies after you have navigated through a site on your phone?

I ask as currently at work I'm working on a project and we are having some issues with compatibility on Safari. We have a sequence that works on Firefox, IE, Safari for PC and Safari for the iPhone. But it does not work on Safari on my ibook or Mac Mini I have at work to test on.

If I could view the cookies on my iPhone it might help to solve the browser compatibility issue.

Thanks

James

ibook G4, Powerbook G4, iMac & MacMini, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Mar 19, 2008 9:18 AM

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Answer 1

jritchey Author

Level 1

9 points

Mar 19, 2008 9:37 AM in response to jritchey

As a follow up, I'm trying to figure out what some of the main differences are between Safari and Safari for the iphone. I have noticed a difference in the security settings, but haven't found much beyond that.

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Answer 2

MobileDev

Level 3

565 points

Mar 19, 2008 6:57 PM in response to jritchey

If client side cookies, then obviously the client can read and display the document.cookie from either a debug method or another webpage within the same subdirectory.

If server side cookies, then your server code should be able to log what the client sends up with each request (i.e. cookies that the server sent down will go back up).

For iPhone Safari info, have you been to http://developer.apple.com/webapps/ ?

Luck!

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