Objective-C equivalent of curl request

Question

I\'m trying to manipulate this curl request in Objective-C:

curl -u username:password \"http://www.example.com/myapi/getdata\"

I\'ve implem

Answer 1

I found that the best thing to do was to not attempt the authentication within the code and to put it straight in the URL itself. The working code looks as follows:

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://%@:%@@www.example.com/myapi/getdata", API_USERNAME, API_PASSWORD]];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];

[request setURL:url];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
[request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];

NSError *error;
NSURLResponse *response;
NSData *data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];