diff --git a/operateDocsExample1/operateAPIUtilities.swift b/operateDocsExample1/operateAPIUtilities.swift
index 0e552c7f6f3161df5414597f37dbc2b80ea592c5..2b88352ae1a03b5fd7744e5efe2a53d9eae98db1 100644
--- a/operateDocsExample1/operateAPIUtilities.swift
+++ b/operateDocsExample1/operateAPIUtilities.swift
@@ -87,11 +87,15 @@ class operateAPIUtilities {
                      forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
     let deleteBody = "itemid=\(id)"
     request.httpBody = deleteBody.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8)
-
     
     let req: URLRequest = request as URLRequest
-   
-    let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: req, completionHandler: { data, response, error in
+
+    // set up the session
+    let config = URLSessionConfiguration.default
+    config.httpShouldSetCookies = false
+    let session = URLSession(configuration: config)
+    
+    let task = session.dataTask(with: req, completionHandler: { data, response, error in
       
       if let httpStatus = response as? HTTPURLResponse,
         httpStatus.statusCode != 200 {
@@ -113,7 +117,12 @@ class operateAPIUtilities {
     
     let req = deleteRequest(endpoint: "note", id: id)
     
-    let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: req, completionHandler: { data, response, error in
+    // set up the session
+    let config = URLSessionConfiguration.default
+    config.httpShouldSetCookies = false
+    let session = URLSession(configuration: config)
+    
+    let task = session.dataTask(with: req, completionHandler: { data, response, error in
       
       if let httpStatus = response as? HTTPURLResponse,
         httpStatus.statusCode != 200 {
@@ -149,7 +158,12 @@ class operateAPIUtilities {
     
     let req: URLRequest = request as URLRequest
     
-    let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: req, completionHandler: { data, response, error in
+    // set up the session
+    let config = URLSessionConfiguration.default
+    config.httpShouldSetCookies = false
+    let session = URLSession(configuration: config)
+
+    let task = session.dataTask(with: req, completionHandler: { data, response, error in
         
         guard error == nil && data != nil else {
           //handle errors here
@@ -200,7 +214,12 @@ class operateAPIUtilities {
     
     let req: URLRequest = request as URLRequest
     
-    let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: req, completionHandler: { data, response, error in
+    // set up the session
+    let config = URLSessionConfiguration.default
+    config.httpShouldSetCookies = false
+    let session = URLSession(configuration: config)
+    
+    let task = session.dataTask(with: req, completionHandler: { data, response, error in
       
       guard error == nil && data != nil else {
         print("error=\(String(describing: error))")
@@ -262,11 +281,9 @@ class operateAPIUtilities {
     
     // set up the session
     let config = URLSessionConfiguration.default
-    config.timeoutIntervalForRequest = 10
     config.httpShouldSetCookies = false
     let session = URLSession(configuration: config)
     
-    //let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: req, completionHandler: { data, response, error in
     let task = session.dataTask(with: req, completionHandler: { data, response, error in
         
       print("req.allHTTPHeaderFields.debugDescription")