owaauth.dll | Outlook Web Access 2007 - Forms based authentication parameter

[Gooze_____]

Hi, I am trying since for a longer time to post parameters to Outlook Web Access 2007 (owaauth.dll) for signing on. But it refuses.

This is the way I am doing (which is already working within a delphi program):

NSString *strUsername = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:@"mailUserName"];
NSString *strPassword = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:@"mailPassword"];
NSString *postString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"destination=https%3A%2F%2Fowa.MYHOST.com%2Fexchange&flags=0&username=%@&password=%@", strUsername, strPassword];
NSData *myRequestData = [NSData dataWithBytes:[postString UTF8String] length:[postString length]];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc]initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString: @"https://owa.MYHOST.com/exchange/owaauth.dll"]]; 
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setHTTPBody:myRequestData];
NSDictionary *headerFieldsDict = [NSDictionary
		        dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
			@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded",@"Content-type",
			@"https://owa.MYHOST.com/exchweb/bin/auth/owalogon.asp?url=https://owa.MYHOST.com/exchange&reason=0&replaceCurrent=1",@"Referer", nil];
[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headerFieldsDict];	
[webView loadRequest:request];

It seems that UIWebView does not allow to change the user-agent in its header during a post request. Does anyone have an idea how to solve this? Here is a .NET tutorial for the same thing (a bit more complex, I am suppressed as my solution was working within my delphi program): Using .NET and WebDAV to access an Exchange server - Marc Charbonneau’s Blog

Anyway, many thanks!!!

[chouchou]

I don't know how to do it in UIWebView, but you can definitely set user-agent using NSURLRequest directly and parsing the data yourself. Something like:

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:whateverURL];
NSMutableDictionary *headers = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
[headers setObject:@"iPad (like giant iPod touch); Mozilla; Chrome; Whatever" forKey:@"User-Agent"];
[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];
NSData *data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:NULL error:NULL];

(disregard all the mutables, they're from some other code).

If you must show it in a webview, you might do something like logging in using the URLRequest, then saving the cookies and using them later for the webview.