Question

I want to fetch data from this URL: http://webservices.ns.nl/ns-api-stations. This URL requires a login. How to put this login in my code? This code is what I am using now.

-(void)fetchStationData {
//Method for the fetching of the data

//First lets check wheater there is an internet connection and if the host is reachable
if(internetActive) {

    //Internet is active

    //Init the parser
    parser = [[RSSParser alloc] init];

    //Set he parser context
    parser.context = context;

    //The array to het the data from 
    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://webservices.ns.nl/ns-api-stations"];

    //The XML elements to fetch
    NSArray *elements = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"naam",nil];

    //The actual fetchin
    [parser fetchStationItemsForUrl:url forElements:elements];

    //Save the context ?
    [context save:nil];

    //Clean up
    [elements release]; 

}

Answer 1

The server which you try to access and fetch some data is requiring a some kind of authentication to allow it.. So before you try to make a get request you need the perform a authentication. So you need to know which kind of authentication method(for example Digest Auth) they’re using and also you need a username and password..

Also you need to use HTTPRequest library. I suggest you to use ASIHTTPRequest, It’s really simple.. You can also perform authentication with asihtttprequest library before make a request from a server.