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Fernando Santiago
Fernando Santiago

Reputation: 2288

Send POST using NSURLConnection with HTTPS

I have been searching over the internet about the right configuration to send a POST to my server using HTTPS, some web pages say i need NSURLCredential and others say:

Just use a @"https://www.myhttpsite.com/" URL and it should work the same way as normal HTTP urls.

So, how is the right way? i need to send credentials of users from my iOS app to my server to authenticate them, so i need to protect this credentials with the HTTPS.

My server already works fine with the HTTPS using internet browsers.

So far what i have is this:

NSString *user = @"user";
NSString *pass = @"pass";
NSString *postData = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"user=%@&pass=%@", user, pass];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://myserver.com"];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
request.HTTPMethod = @"POST";
request.HTTPBody = [postData dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
[NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:request queue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *response, NSData *data, NSError *connectionError) {
    NSString *strData = [[NSString alloc]initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    NSLog(@"data %@", strData);
}];

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2245

Answers (1)

Raghav
Raghav

Reputation: 480

Found this to be a good example, why don't you try it out?

 NSString *urlstring =[[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"userName=%@&password=%@",userName.text,password.text];
NSURL *url=[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://www.example.com/mobile/Login.php"];

NSData *postData = [urlstring dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];

NSString *postLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", [postData length]];

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];
[request setURL:url];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setValue:postLength forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];
[request setValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[request setHTTPBody:postData];


[NSURLRequest setAllowsAnyHTTPSCertificate:YES forHost:[url host]];

NSError *error;
NSURLResponse *resp;
NSData *urlData=[NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&resp error:&error];

NSString *data=[[NSString alloc]initWithData:urlData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

Upvotes: 1

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