Title: Background (Mobile) Web Authentication
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Background (Mobile) Web Authentication

 *  [ilollar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilollar/)
 * (@ilollar)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-mobile-web-authentication/)
 * I’m building an iPhone app that, in part, allows the user to log in to, pull 
   data, and post data back to a Buddypress site. I’m considering approaching this
   problem by using a series of UIWebViews (basically multiple instances of a mobile
   browser window) to display the mobile-themed version of the site.
 * Ideally, I want the user to be able to, upon first-launch of the app, input their
   username and password, and then never have to do it again (functionally similar
   to tons of other social apps out there, like Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
 * Here’s my question – obviously it is easy to store the user’s login credentials,
   but how do I, in the background, establish an authenticated and persistant session
   with those credentials each time the app opens, so for the user, they are never
   presented with a login screen again, and can just use the app like normal? Keep
   in mind that this is a session in the mobile-site, not just XML I’m looking to
   pull via XML-RPC.
 * Does anybody have any suggestions?

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 * [iphone](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/iphone/)
 * [mobile](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mobile/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-mobile-web-authentication/)
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