I am creating my first iPad app. I have a web application that I would like to authenticate against and pull data from in a RESTful way.
If you open up the URL in the browser (https://myapp.com/auth/login), you will get a form to enter your username and password. I was thinking I could set the login credentials in the post data of the request and submit the data.
The site uses HTTPS for login so that credentials aren't passed in plain text over the internet.
How can I make a secure HTTPS connection to pass credentials? Will this remember that I am logged in for future requests? What is the best way to do this?