I\'ve had significant success with NSURL, NSURL[Mutable]Request, NSURLConnection with my iPhone applications. When trying to compile a stand alone Cocoa application, 10 line
The other poster pretty much answered this for you, but I thought I would just add a few things.
First, you don't really need to link to Cocoa for this, just linking to the Foundation framework is okay. Also, since you don't need a connection to the Window Server, you can get rid of the [NSApplication sharedApplicaiton] call. If you want just a simple, console test application to start with, use what you have now and add this before your [pool realease] call:
[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] run];
Please note, however, that this will block and may actually never return. Before calling this, you can add a timer if you want your code to actually do something in the background :) See the documentation on NSRunLoop for more ways to use this.