Question

I’m trying to do a POST request in my iOS application.

The following line works as intended in command line of my Mac

curl -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"email":"[e-mail]","password":"frankSmith"}' http://server.address

However, I can’t seem to convert it properly to iOS. Here is what I’ve tried:

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",SERVER_ADDRESS]];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
NSString *messageBody = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"{\"email\":\"%@\",\"password\":\"%@\"}",@"[e-mail]",@"frankSmith"];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept"];
[request setHTTPBody:[messageBody dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

NSURLConnection *connection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request
                                                              delegate:self];
[connection start];

What am I missing/doing wrong?

Answer 1

Figured it out:

I just needed to add this one line:

[request setHTTPShouldHandleCookies:NO];