PhoneGap asp.net forms authentication not working on ios

Bundling my PhoneGap app for IOS – I had a strange authentication problem. Using forms authentication on my asp.net mvc backend, the login form always came back with the Request.IsAuthenticated = false – that is, only on the IPhone (not even on iPad), the login request did not return the authentication headers neede to log into the application …

My biggest luck tonight was to find this post !!!

http://groups.google.com/group/phonegap/browse_thread/thread/4e18f47d2d860e1e

Adding timeout and cookieless properties into the forms element solved the issue … the post explains why

Thank you “austin.fathe…@gmail.com” !!!