Question

How does this line of code work?

I am trying to modify the URL for this to work, but from looking at the Apple Documentation it doesn’t give much on where I should put the password/URL.

 NSString *password = [(NSString *)CFURLCopyPassword((CFURLRef)[self.request URL]) autorelease];

This line of code is part of the AFNetworking framework so I can pass authentication.

How is the URL suppose to be structured for this to grab the password correctly? I have no luck with it yet.

I tried putting it in the front username:password, but that is not right. the password doesn’t get grabbed.

So basically http://userid:[e-mail]/ completely bypasses the method and it’s not what I want to do.

Answer 1

You can find a short description of this authentication way here, for more details you’ll have to look for the proper standard describing URL.

URL sample in case the page is not available later: ftp://username:password@hostname/

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Foundation/Reference/NSURLConnectionDelegate_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html

If the delegate does not implement this method the default
implementation is used. If a valid credential for the request is
provided as part of the URL, or is available from the
NSURLCredentialStorage the [challenge sender] is sent a
**useCredential:forAuthenticationChallenge: with the credential. If the
challenge has no credential or the credentials fail to authorize
access, then continueWithoutCredentialForAuthenticationChallenge: is
sent to [challenge sender] instead.