Losing a / when converting from NSURL to NSURLRequest

Question

I\'m doing an HTTP Post in my iphone app and one of the parameters I send to the server is a URL. The problem is that when I convert from an NSURL to an NSURLRequest, the st

Answer 1

EDIT 1 I was getting the problem as described. But missed it in my output. (hence the down vote :-( ) So have removed the code I put up as an answer.

*Edit 2

But related to my comments here is some code apple use to get a NSURLRequest,

NSURLRequest *theRequest=[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.apple.com/"]
                    cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
                timeoutInterval:60.0];      

@Dave DeLong: I notice in the Apple "URL Loading System Program Guide" the example creating a connection and request does not use any escaping. The Url it uses is from a NSURL URLWithString: