iOS5 NSURLConnection methods deprecated

Question

I\'m trying to write an iOS app that makes asynchronous requests to get data over the network. It seems like a lot of people recommend using NSURLConnection for this, and fr

Answer 1

You would think deprecating those methods from NSURLConnection would warrant some kind of explainer, but I have not yet found one. The best I could do so far is from Apple's URL Loading System Programming Guide:

In order to download the contents of a URL, an application needs to provide a delegate object that, at a minimum, implements the following delegate methods: connection:didReceiveResponse:, connection:didReceiveData:, connection:didFailWithError: and connectionDidFinishLoading:

which implies an informal protocol.