Cookie management in IMA sdk

[Akash Shah]

Hi Team,

I am integrating IMA Android & iOS SDK for video ad rendition. I am not able to find a solution for handling Custom cookies during ad request-response. 
Kindly suggest a solution to handle it.
I want to use client side cookies only. 

Regards,

Akash Shah

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[IMA SDK]

Hi Akash,

We are checking your issue and will get back to you shortly. Meanwhile, your patience is important.

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[IMA SDK]

Hi,

Could you kindly provide the step by step business logic for handling Custom cookies during ad request-response?

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[IMA SDK]

Hi Akash,

Thank you for getting back to us.

For your use case of client-side session management and passing data with ad requests, the recommended approach is to leverage the adTagUrl and its custom parameters. You can dynamically append your session-specific data as key-value pairs to the ad tag URL. The ad server can then parse this information from the URL to serve relevant ads. This is the standard and supported way to pass targeting data, user IDs, or other session-related information to the ad server.

For example, on Android or iOS, you would construct your adTagUrl by adding your custom parameters to the base URL. The IMA SDK will then make the request with this appended information.

An alternative, though not for passing cookies directly to the ad server, is the userContext property available in the AdsRequest object. This property allows you to attach any custom object to the ad request, and this object will be returned to you in the AdsManagerLoadedEvent and AdErrorEvent. This is helpful for your own internal application logic to correlate requests and responses, but it is not a mechanism for sending data to the ad server.

In summary, you cannot directly manipulate the cookies used by the IMA SDK's internal network calls.

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IMA SDK Team

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I will check with the team and get back to you shortly.

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[Akash Shah]

Hi Team,

We have a use case of handling client side session management through HTTP cookies. And we need to send and receive the data during Ad Request & Response. 
For this purpose we need the support of Cookie management in IMA SDK.

Regards,

Akash Shah | Engineering Lead m. 9773501879

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[Akash Shah]

Hi Team,

We would like to use IMA SDK for VAST tag handling while ensuring that our internal HTTP cookie based features are functional. For the same reason we would like to evaluate whether IMA SDK is capable of storing HTTP Cookies on client-side and attach on subsequent VAST requests.
Considering our payload is Cookie header based, we cannot change it to flow via query parameters within VAST Tags. In case there are any IMA SDK APIs to enable support for the same, request to guide. 

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Akash Shah | Engineering Lead m. 9773501879

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[IMA SDK]

Hi,

Thank you for getting back to us.

Cookies are managed internally by the SDK, and this behaviour cannot be overridden. Regarding your query on integrating video ad renditions, this functionality is already supported via VAST multiple “MediaFiles”.

Since the MediaFiles tag includes multiple media, the player will automatically select the most suitable media based on factors such as bandwidth, resolution, bit rate and screen size.

After reading the first thread it looks like you are trying to integrate the same above approach but using a custom cookie which is unfortunately not possible from IMA SDK.

Let me know if you have any different business logic behind using a custom cookie via SDK.

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IMA SDK Team

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I will check with the team and get back to you shortly.

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[Akash Shah]

Hi Team,

Any further updates on this ?

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Akash Shah | Engineering Lead m. 9773501879

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[IMA SDK]

Hi Akas,

As I mentioned earlier this is currently not possible with the IMA SDK currently. But i will raise this business logic and issue concern to the wider team. I will update you once i receive any update on this.

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