HTTP Request in swift not working

Question

I\'m trying to learn about working with APIs in Swift. As a good first test, I figured I\'d hit the itunes API and just return some search results. I\'m in playground using the

Answer 1

Not sure why you aren't seeing an error—I get this:

NSURLConnection/CFURLConnection HTTP load failed (kCFStreamErrorDomainSSL, -9807)

You can test more effectively with httpbin.org—this works perfectly for me:

let url = NSURL(string: "http://httpbin.org/get")

let task = NSURLSession.sharedSession().dataTaskWithURL(url!) {(data, response, error) in
    println(NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding))
}

task.resume()