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I would like to know how do I get a return value 1 or 0 only.... back from an URL request asynchronously. currently I do it in this way: NSString *UTCString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://web.blah.net/question/CheckQuestions?utc=%0.f",[lastUTCDate timeIntervalSince1970]]; NSLog(@"UTC String %@",UTCString); NSURL *updateDataURL = [NSURL URLWithString:UTCString]; NSString *checkValue = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:updateDataURL encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding error:Nil]; NSLog(@"check Value %@",checkValue); this works, however it is blocking my main thread till I got a reply back from

I am trying to post data to a PHP web service. I am familiar doing this in html using query $.post but I am very much stumped trying this in objective C. I tried several blogs & questions found on stackoverflow. I finally came up with the following code: NSString *jsonRequest = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"{\"Email\":\"%@\",\"FirstName\":\"%@\"}",user,fname]; NSLog(@"Request: %@", jsonRequest); NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http:myurl..."]; NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:url]; NSData *requestData = [NSData dataWithBytes:[jsonRequest UTF8String]

I'm having some problems with sending POST data to a PHP script with NSURLConnection. This is my code: const char *bytes = [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<mydata>%@</mydata>", data] UTF8String]; NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://myurl.com/script.php"]; NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url]; [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"]; [request setHTTPBody:[NSData dataWithBytes:bytes length:strlen(bytes)]]; NSURLResponse *response; NSError *err; NSData *responseData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:

Two part question Part one: I am trying to create an ASynchronous request to my database. I am currently doing it Synchronously however I want to learn both ways to better my understanding of whats going on. Currently I have set up my Synchronous call like this. - (IBAction)setRequestString:(NSString *)string { //Set database address NSMutableString *databaseURL = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithString:@"http://127.0.0.1:8778/instacodeData/"]; // imac development //PHP file name is being set from the parent view [databaseURL appendString:string]; //call ASIHTTP delegates (Used to connect to

I'm trying to get a simple text response from a PHP page using POST. I have the following code: func post(url: String, info: String) -> String { var URL: NSURL = NSURL(string: url)! var request:NSMutableURLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest(URL:URL) var output = "Nothing Returned"; request.HTTPMethod = "POST"; var bodyData = info; request.HTTPBody = bodyData.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding); NSURLConnection.sendAsynchronousRequest(request, queue: NSOperationQueue.mainQueue()){ response, data, error in output = (NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding))! } return output } While