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vespa2242
vespa2242

Reputation: 55

Request with NSMutableURLRequest

I tried to make an login page to make user authenticate to the website. I tried something like:

    NSURL *myURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://www.freelancer.com/users/onlogin.php"];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:myURL
                                                       cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData
                                            timeoutInterval:60];    
NSLog(@"ispost");
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setValue:usernameField.text forKey:@"username"];
[request setValue:passwordField.text forKey:@"passwd"];


NSURLConnection *theConnection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self];

if (!theConnection) {
    UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Network Error" message:@"Could not login!" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
    [alert show];
    [alert release];
    return;
}

I got an erroras followed:

2012-07-07 10:09:37.354 Auth[6062:f803] ispost 2012-07-07 10:09:37.357 Auth[6062:f803] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSUnknownKeyException', reason: '[<NSMutableURLRequest 0x68d69d0> setValue:forUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key username.'

Can anyone suggest me what i did wrong?

Thanks for any help

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4158

Answers (3)

Mathew Varghese
Mathew Varghese

Reputation: 4527

Why don't you use like

[request setValue:usernameField.text forHTTPHeaderField:@"username"];
[request setValue:passwordField.text forHTTPHeaderField:@"passwd"];

Hope this helps you.

Upvotes: 4

sigre
sigre

Reputation: 371

NSMutableURLRequest doesn't have a username property (hence the error). You need to do something like the following (though it depends on what format your server is expecting):

[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
NSString* str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"username=%@&passwd=%@", usernameField.text, passwordField.text];
[request setHTTPBody:[str dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 1

Chris Trahey
Chris Trahey

Reputation: 18290

The hint is in your error string:

this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key username.

I'm pretty sure you can't do basic auth in the way you are attempting. A quick search turned up this, and I do recall having to do base64 when trying to pass it with every request (the alternative is implementing the connection delegate methods, and properly handling the request for auth.

Upvotes: 0

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