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

I was hitting this error when passing an NSURLRequest to an NSURLSession without setting the request's HTTPMethod.

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:urlComponents.URL];

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

Add the HTTPMethod, though, and the connection works fine

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:urlComponents.URL];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"PUT"];