Why should I prefer ASIHTTPRequest over NSURLConnection for downloading files from the web?

Question

I\'ve seen a couple of times people using ASIHTTPRequest to download files. Now I wonder why? What are the core benefits over NSURLConnection?

Answer 1

ASIHTTPRequest's strength points are IMHO:

• easy to use
• file posting
• built-in authentication
• built-in zlib compression
• queing