Re: POST request without NSURLConnection
Re: POST request without NSURLConnection
- Subject: Re: POST request without NSURLConnection
- From: Gwynne <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:48:11 -0400
On Jun 11, 2004, at 9:23 AM, Jirome Foucher wrote:
Hi all,
In my app, I have to make a HTTP POST request. So I looked at what was
available and NSURLConnection seemed the perfect solution for it.....
until I discovered in the online doc that it required Mac OS X 10.2.7
or at least Safari 1.0 or newer.....
Is there any alternative ?? (I don't really want to embed CURL....)
May I ask what's wrong with libCURL? Admittedly it's a third-party
library, and the version installed on Jaguar is so old and messy that
you have to link statically with a newer self-made build (I went with
static-linking with the Panther-installed version, myself), but it's a
very complete and reliable library that's not at all difficult to use,
and if you static-link with a self-made build it'll work right back to
10.1. The static linking is my personal pet-peeve, however; the library
builds another good 200-odd kilobytes into your executable (that's a
debug build; I haven't tried building with optimization flags on yet.
Gotta love beta cycles). But I considered that a better solution than:
1) Distributing different builds of my app for Jaguar and Panther
2) Having an installer that required authentication and restarting,
which I require neither of now.
3) Making do with the version of libcurl installed on Jaguar, which was
missing exaclty the HTTP POST routines I needed; said routines weren't
provided until 7.10.x, while Jag has 7.7.x.
-- Gwynne, key to the Code that runs us all
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