How to Share NSURLConnection credentials with Safari?

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I'm trying to intercept link and login a user, then send them on to Safari and have the page load with no authentication request.

So, what I'm doing so far...

I register a custom URL scheme for my app. Call it "myhttp". Now someone clicks on a link (say from an email) of myhttp://secured.com/foo and my app runs. The apps pulls the user's credentials from somewhere and makes a call to the real URL with an NSURLConnection. The NSURLConectionDelegate implements connection:didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge and I navigate through the security layer fine. Next I try loading the same url using the UIApplication openURL method to bring up Safari, but I still get an authentication check.

I thought this would work because I read the follow in the Apple documentation.

Credentials stored in persistent storage are kept in the user’s keychain and shared among all apps.

And when I check the NSURLCredentialStorage I can see the credentials I just used stored there with the correct information, protection space, scheme, etc, but clearly I'm doing something wrong or I wouldn't be getting an authentication challenge when I switch to Safari.

So the question is, did I just screw up somewhere along the line, forget some important bit or am I going about this the wrong way?

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DBD

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How to Share NSURLConnection credentials with Safari?