Cookies-based auth with Ionic 3 + Crosswalk

Hello! I’m running into issues trying to implement a cookie-based authentication in my Ionic 3 app (using crosswalk plugin). After login, the backend set the http header response as:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, Authorization, X-Requested-With
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Content-Length: 10
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 23:20:57 GMT
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=voa911237ta2123hvg2n26l123; path=/
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

I have read [0] that when using cookies-based auth with Ionic, and using withCredentials = true in the http post/get call from angular, the backend cannot use Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and the only way is to set a list of allowed hosts instead.

Is there any way I can implement this cookies-based auth? or do I need to switch to some token-based auth instead?

[0] http://blog.ionicframework.com/angularjs-authentication/

manuarguedev - were you able to figure this out? We are experiencing the same problem with our mobile app as well… thanks!