NSURLConnection synchronous request on https

Question

Can anyone tell me the way how I can make a synchronous call to the https server? I am able to do asynchronous request on https server using following delegate methods.

- (BOOL)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection canAuthenticateAgainstProtectionSpace:(NSURLProtectionSpace *)protectionSpace

and

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge:(NSURLAuthenticationChallenge *)challenge

but I need to do synchronous.

Answer 1

//Encoding the request

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

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

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] autorelease];
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:requestUrlString]];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setValue:postLength forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];
[request setValue:@"application/xml" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[request setHTTPBody:postData];
NSURLResponse* response;
NSError* error = nil;

//Capturing server response
NSData* result = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request  returningResponse:&response error:&error];

Answer 2

+ (NSData *)sendSynchronousRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request returningResponse:(NSURLResponse **)response error:(NSError **)error

in NSUrlConnection should work just fine with https.

If you'd like to provide credentials, they need to be part of the url: (https://username:[email protected]/api/user.json).

There's no way to provide a NSURLConnection delegate, so if you need some nonstandard authentication handling you'll need to do it asynchronously.