Question

I need to check and evaluate the HTTP Status Codes in my iPhone app. I’ve got an NSURLRequest object and an NSURLConnection that successfully (I think) connect to the site:

// create the request
NSURLRequest *theRequest=[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.apple.com/"]
                        cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
                    timeoutInterval:60.0];
// create the connection with the request
// and start loading the data
NSURLConnection *theConnection=[[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:theRequest delegate:self];
if (theConnection) {
    // Create the NSMutableData that will hold
    // the received data
    // receivedData is declared as a method instance elsewhere
    receivedData=[[NSMutableData data] retain];
} else {
    // inform the user that the download could not be made
}

I got this code here: https://web.archive.org/web/20100908130503/http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/URLLoadingSystem/Tasks/UsingNSURLConnection.html

But it doesn’t (as far as I can see) say anything about accessing HTTP Status codes.

How to make a connection to a site and then check the HTTP Status Codes of that connection?

Answer 1

This is how I do it:

    #pragma mark -
    #pragma mark NSURLConnection Delegate Methods
    - (void)connection:(NSURLConnection*)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse*)response {
         NSHTTPURLResponse* httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse*)response;
         int responseStatusCode = [httpResponse statusCode];
    }

But I’m using an asynchronous NSURLConnection, so this may not help you. But I hope it does anyway!