iPhone: Open a url Programmatically

Question

I am new to iPhone. I want to open an url in my application. How can I do this task? Please suggest me and provide some useful link.

Answer 1

If you would like to open and just get the data from the URL, you could use NSString:

NSString *ans = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url];

If what you are trying to get is an XML from a URL, you can directly use NSXMLParser:

NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:urlstr];
NSXMLParser *parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url];
// parse here
[parser release];
[url release];

On the other hand, if by opening you mean, open a URl in an embedded browser, you could use UIWebView class.