Question

Currently I am loading an image from URL in my iPhone app, which is working fine. But now i want to access a protected URL. Please guide me with a piece of code that how can i access URL with credentials(username/password).

The simple code through which my app loaded the image from URL is given Below

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://www.somedirectory.com"];
    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData: [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url]]; 
    [Pic setImage:image];

Answer 1

You can use some third party library like ASIHTTPRequest, which makes it very easy.

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://allseeing-i.com/top_secret/"];
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setUsername:@"username"];
[request setPassword:@"password"];

Or you can use NSURLConnection class, but authentication implementation is a bit tricky.