How do I insert a POST request into a UIWebView

Question

For a GET request I've tried this simple method:

NSString *urlAddress = @"http://example.com/";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlAddress];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[uiWebViewThingy loadRequest:request];

(Although it doesn't seem to work if the request contains high UTF-8 characters. )

I want to send a POST from the iPhone.

This also give an overview for sending POST/GET requests although what I really want to do is embed the resulting web page into UIWebView. What would be the best way to go around that?

Answer 1

Create POST URLRequest and use it to fill webView

 NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://your_url.com"];
 NSString *body = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"arg1=%@&arg2=%@", @"val1",@"val2"];
 NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc]initWithURL: url];
 [request setHTTPMethod: @"POST"];
 [request setHTTPBody: [body dataUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
 [webView loadRequest: request];