NSURL Authentication when server does not present a challenge

Question

I am in a situation where I need to send authentication (basic HTTP Authentication) to a server but the server does not send me a challenge first. This has been tracked down to be a duplicate of the wget switch --auth-no-challenge. My problem is, I do not see any way to get NSURL to do this.

I have implemented basic authentication in my NSURLConnection delegate but the -connection: didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge: method is not getting called.

Is there any way to force this call or to embed the authentication information for this strange situation?

Answer 1

I believe you can add the username and password to the NSURL

Example

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://username:[email protected]/"];