Best way to download large files from web to iPhone for writing to disk

Question

In an iPhone app I currently have code for downloading a file from the Web to the iPhone and saving it to disk.

The problem is that if the file is large the

Answer 1

You can use NSURLConnection which runs asynchronously and delivers data in manageable chunks.

Answer 2

As NSURLDownload is not available on the iPhone, you might want to use NSURLConnection and buffer some data in a NSMutableData using connection:didReceiveData: delegate method. This article describes some of this: http://dannyg.com/iapps/Blog/Entries/2009/2/16_The_Joy_in_Discovering_You_Are_an_Idiot.html