SOAP, REST or just XML for Objective-C/iPhone vs. server solution

Question

We are going to set up a solution where the iPhone is requesting data from the server. We have the option to decide what kind of solution to put in place and we are not sure

Answer 1

I would go with simple HTTP. NSURLConnection in the Cocoa libraries make this pretty simple. Google Toolbox for Mac also has several classes to help parsing URL-encoded data.