Hey all,

I have had problems where Facebook and other websites are not having their cookies remembered..
I am aware that I am not alone with this problem,
I have however, found a link that apparently fixes it.
What is good news is that anyone with this problem who has an unlocked phone (not an official phone) can fix this problem. So basically that is everyone here!

iPhone Google Reader/Gmail/Facebook Cookie Fix

Here is further explanation that I found...

"Yes, unfortunately your phone needs to be jailbroken for you to fix this yourself. If you have a pristine locked phone with this problem, you need to wait for Apple to fix it. Another good reason for open hardware!

If you have a jailbroken phone, you can just install the Term-vt100 package from installer (under System I think). Then type in the commands in the terminal window.

The numbers 777 and 666 are file access modifiers. 777 is for the Cookies directory, and means "make this directory able to be opened, read and written by anyone". 666 is similar but for the cookies file (most files don't need "execute" access, which 7 is). There's an excellent explanation of chmod and permission masks here: CGI: CHMOD

In theory you shouldn't have to make the files writeable by anyone, if we can find out what user Safari is running as. However, there is really very little risk to making them writable. Even if a malicious user or virus got onto your phone, the last thing they will be looking for is your cookies."

I had this problem, did a restore and re-ziphone'd it, then was careful which jb apps I installed (no browser addons). It fixed it for me.

Whenever I update my iPhone software now I check cookies work before going through loading my songs etc onto it.

Regards,
Shane.

Yes, but it seemed like it is an Apple coding problem. But that is pretty crazy considering some people have the problem and some don't... All I have installed was Make it Mine, BSD subsystem and the localisations from Whirlpool.. So most annoying, well I am getting the Error: package download failed! message from installer at the moment when I am trying to download the Term-vt100 package so haven't got too far through the steps yet haha!

Damm i love the Iphone community:

Its now available through installer. Add http://appledailytimes.com/installer and install cookie fix.

a.

Brilliant! Thanks a lot Al Aero!

I have downloaded the file but still not keeping me logged in, what exactly do i type into terminal

Yay, the fix worked.

#chown mobile /var/mobile/

Either SSH into the phone or open up terminal on your iPhone.

terminal on the phone is asking for a password?????

Did you add the app from installer?

yeah i did

hmm that should have fixed it.

the password that terminal is a bug i think,

google is your friend tho:

iPhone 1.1.3 Term-vt100 password not working - JMOZ

Password is "alpine"

i have tried alpine but its not working and i have never changed it....

look for bsd subsystem term fix on installer, install and then alpine will work

[edit] Cancel that, it won't. I've just needed to go thru this again and for whatever reason, its not doing what it ought to.