Re: Howto: send cookies/customize HTTP request headers?
Re: Howto: send cookies/customize HTTP request headers?
- Subject: Re: Howto: send cookies/customize HTTP request headers?
- From: Axel Behr <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:18:51 +0100
Anyway, looking into the headers and documentation for
NSURL/NSURLHandle, i didn't see a way to insert anything into the HTTP
header being generated.
O.k. Thanks to MTLibrarian I found what I was expecting to find in the
release notes for foundation (btw. what I don't get is: if MTLibrarian
is a clone of NeXT's Digital Librarian, why does Apple use Help Viewer
for developer docs then...?!):
NSURL/NSURLHandle
Support for https has been added to NSURL/NSURLHandle; you can now
download https URLs as you would http URLs. Also, it is now possible to
configure the headers on the outgoing HTTP request via
-writeProperty:forKey:. To do this, get an NSURLHandle from the
relevant NSURL and prior to calling either -resourceData or
-loadInBackground, message the handle with -writeProperty:forKey:; the
key should be the HTTP header you wish to set and the property value
should be an NSString containing the desired unquoted value for the
header, for instance:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.apple.com/";];
NSURLHandle *handle = [url URLHandleUsingCache:NO];
NSData *pageData;
[handle writeProperty:@"MyApp/1.0" forKey:@"User-Agent"];
pageData = [handle resourceData];
Now, this leads my to another problem:
The header parameter that is generated looks like this:
GET /pathonhost HTTP/1.0
Host: my.host.com:80
^^^
User-Agent: CFNetwork/0.9
To add the port address after the host name is quite uncommon (at least
IE, which I checked, doesn't do this), and one of the servers I try to
connect to chokes over this.
I can override the User-Agent (see source above), which works, but
trying to override the Host property ends up being ignored. Any chances
of removing the port number somehow else?
Is this behavioue RFC-compliant and are the browsers (i.e. IE) wrong
about it, or can this be seen as some kind of bug or glitch an Apple's
half?
Thanks for listening
Axel Behr