Logging in to website with saved username and password
- by DGund
One of the functions of an app I am making involves logging the user into our Campus Portal website. For ease of use, the user may enter a username and password into the app once, and it will be saved for all future log-ins. When the user clicks a button, the information will automatically be sent to log in, and the website will be displayed in a UIWebView.
Let us say that the username and password are each stored in an NSString. How can I use this data to log in to this website programmatically and display the page it in a UIWebView?
I know little about posting and forms, so any help is appreciated.
Would something like this Stackoverflow answer help?
Here's the shell of my code for this
- (IBAction)btnGo:(id)sender {
username = usernameField.text;
password = passwordField.text;
if (saveSwitch.isOn) {
//Save data if the user wants
AppDelegate *appDelegate = (AppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
usernameSaved = username;
passwordSaved = password;
[appDelegate.listOfPortalCredentials replaceObjectAtIndex:0 withObject:usernameSaved];
[appDelegate.listOfPortalCredentials replaceObjectAtIndex:1 withObject:passwordSaved];
}
//Insert username and password to web form, log in to portal
//This is where I need help
}
