What is the default cookieAcceptPolicy

Hi,

I'm working on a iOS SDK that needs the cookieAcceptPolicy of the [NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] to be NSHTTPCookieAcceptPolicyAlways which should be the default according to the documentation:

The default cookie accept policy is

NSHTTPCookieAcceptPolicyAlways

I've just created a new iOS project in XCode and this does not seem to be the case

// this logs "cookieAcceptPolicy 2"
NSLog(@"cookieAcceptPolicy %@", @([NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage].cookieAcceptPolicy));

So the questions are

1) Is the sharedHTTPCookieStorage shared accross iOS applications?

2) Can the user of an application change the cookie accecpt policy?

3) Why is the default cookieAcceptPolicy "NSHTTPCookieAcceptPolicyOnlyFromMainDocumentDomain" even if I did not change it?

4 What is the cookieAcceptPolicy of a UIWebView in a app?

cheers,

Jan