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Asked: 2026-06-01T07:34:05+00:00

I am looking for anything like .NET WebClient: Where is DownloadString? on XCode. Just

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I am looking for anything like
.NET WebClient: Where is DownloadString?
on XCode.

Just one URL to send and one String to get. I have working solution on iPhone and one on Mac Project but on iPad it does not work.

I found https://github.com/pokeb/asi-http-request but it throws errors in XCode 4.1 about release is not supported.

Any suggestions to download website on iPad project with HighLevel access?

What class an be used in case of ASIHTTPRequest?

-(NSString*) DownloadString:(NSString *)UrlString;
{

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:UrlString];

    // Create a request
    ASIHTTPRequest* myRequest = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];

    // Start the request
    [myRequest startSynchronous];

    // Request has now finished
    NSString *Result = [myRequest responseString];

    return Result;
}

* SOLUTION (thanks to Francesco) *

NSString *UrlTargetString = @"http://www.goldengel.ch";
NSURL *UrlTarget = [NSURL URLWithString: UrlTargetString];


NSError* error = nil;
NSString* text = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:UrlTarget encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding error:&error];
if( text )
{
    NSLog(@"Text=%@", text);
}
else 
{
    NSLog(@"Error = %@", error);
}

Response / Log is: 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html>....</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You can also use the NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error: method.

    It is synchronous so you can use dispatch_async to use it from the main thread.

    dispatch_queue_t httpQueue = dispatch_queue_create(httpQueueName, NULL);
        dispatch_async(httpQueue, ^{
            NSString *response = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil]; 
//update UI
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
//code...
});
            });

    EDIT: I updated the answer: if you need to update some UI component, remember to do it inside the main thread (so you can use dispatch_async on the main queue)

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