Question

I want to perform the below request

NSString* testString = @"http://www.abcd.com?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx........." (The length of testString is more than 400 characters)
NSURLRequest *urlRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:testString]];

If i try the above snippet the urlRequest is sending as a NULL value. Is there any possibility to compress the string or URL???

Answer 1

There is no limitation about NSString length to pass to URL, but there are special chars can do it, for example, space, accents and others.

Try it:

[NSURL URLWithString:[testString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
// if it`s using utf8

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