Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1005 “The network connection was lost.”

Question

I have an application which works fine on Xcode6-Beta1 and Xcode6-Beta2 with both iOS7 and iOS8. But with Xcode6-Beta3, Beta4, Beta5 I\'m facing network issues with iOS8 but

Answer 1

Also have a problem with beta 5 and AFNetworking 1.3 when running on iOS 8 simulator that results in a connection error:

Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1005 "The network connection was lost."

The same code works fine on iOS 7 and 7.1 simulators and my debugging proxy shows that the failure occurs before a connection is actually attempted (i.e. no requests logged).

I have tracked the failure to NSURLConnection and reported bug to Apple. See line 5 in attached image:

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Changing to use https allows connection from iOS 8 simulators albeit with intermittent errors.

Problem is still present in Xcode 6.01 (gm).