Can I create an NSURL that refers to in-memory NSData?

Question

The docs for NSURL state that:

An NSURL object represents a URL that can potentially contain the location of a resource on a remote server, the path of

Answer 1

What you are missing is the NSURLProtocol class. Takes about three dozen lines of code, and any code that handles URLs properly can access your in-memory data. Read the documentation, it's not difficult and there is sample code available.

Unfortunately there are some APIs that take an NSURL as a parameter, but can only handle file URLs.