Thanks for that link Avi. By the way, I don’t want to do it this way, but this is what the API developer asked me to use. I’ll get back to him and will ask for a better API. -António

On 05 Jul 2015, at 07:18, Avi Drissman <avi@drissman.com> wrote:

You probably shouldn't be doing that. It violates the spirit of GET if not the letter of the spec.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-request-body

I wouldn't be surprised if your inability to make NSURLRequest do it was intentional on the part of the NSURLRequest designers.

Avi

On Jul 5, 2015, at 01:55, Antonio Nunes <devlists@sintraworks.com> wrote:

...

I have the following curl command to a web api, which retrieves some info: curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Basic blabla' -H 'Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8' -H 'Accept-Language: en' -d "<user><account_attributes><email>you@example.com</email><password>SomePassWord</password></account_attributes></user>" 'https://example.com/api/v1/endpoint

The -d and xml-string are mandatory for this GET command. I haven’t been able to translate this into an equivalent NSURLRequest that gets accepted by the server. It appears that an HTTPBody on a GET request is not honoured by NSURLRequest.

This is the code I use to make the request (on iOS): NSURLCredential *credential = [[WRTSServerEngine sharedServerEngine] savedCredentialsForHost:@“example.com" port:0 protocol:@"https" realm:@“SomeRealm"];

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://example.com/api/v1/endpoint"]];

NSString *authStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@:%@", credential.user, credential.password]; NSData *authData = [authStr dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; NSString *authValue = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"Basic %@",[authData base64EncodedStringWithOptions:0]]; [request setValue:authValue forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"]; [request setValue:@"nl, en-us" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Language"]; [request setValue:@"gzip" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Encoding"];

NSString *infoAsXMLString = @"<user>"; infoAsXMLString = [infoAsXMLString stringByAppendingString:@"<account_attributes>"]; infoAsXMLString = [infoAsXMLString stringByAppendingFormat:@"<email>%@</email>", credential.user]; infoAsXMLString = [infoAsXMLString stringByAppendingFormat:@"<password>%@</password>", credential.password]; infoAsXMLString = [infoAsXMLString stringByAppendingString:@"</account_attributes>"]; infoAsXMLString = [infoAsXMLString stringByAppendingString:@"</user>"]; [request setHTTPBody:[infoAsXMLString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

NSURLSessionConfiguration *sessionConfig = [NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration]; sessionConfig.allowsCellularAccess = YES; NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:sessionConfig]; self.task = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { NSLog(@"%@", error); }]; [self.task resume];

This results in the following error: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1005 "The network connection was lost." UserInfo=0x7ffd0b5f7a00 {NSUnderlyingError=0x7ffd0b58be50 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error -1005.)", NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://staging.wrts.nl/api/v1/existing_user, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://staging.wrts.nl/api/v1/existing_user, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=4, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-4, NSLocalizedDescription=The network connection was lost.}

If I do not set an HHTPBody on the request, I get a 500 error (which makes sense, since the server is expecting a payload in the body).

Is there any way to get the HHTPBody sent along with the GET request?

-António

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