iPhone 1.1.4 Mobile Safari cookies fix

I had this problem where Safari wasn’t saving cookies properly. There’s a fix floating around the web and it worked for me.

Open terminal on iPhone:

chown mobile /var/mobile/Library/Cookies

chown mobile /var/mobile/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist

This would change the ownership of directory ‘Cookies’ and file ‘Cookies.plist’ from root to mobile so that Safari can write to the file.

I don’t know why this is set to root, or whether or not it’s an Apple short sight or ZiPhone’s mishap. But the solution works pretty well for me.