I think there's a need for some additional API on NSURLConnection to
provide finer-grained control over authentication. In particular,
(1) Ability to set credentials on the request before starting the
connection
(2) Ability to disable the connection from looking in the Keychain
Thanks Jens, macnetworkprog isn't a list I read, but I'll dip my toe
in over there for a good cause. I agree that the above functionality
would make all the difference in the world.
Jeremy, if you do have a special case and need to set the
authentication header instead of going with the built in functions,
cocoa doesn't have any base 64 functionality built in that I know of,
but there are many examples floating around the net of adding
encodeBase64 methods in a category to either NSString or NSData. Most
use libcrypto (a Rubik's Cube of a C library!). Dave Dribin's blog
has one such example:
