Question

I’m trying to get source code of this page (http://www.sanmarinocard.sm) but dataWithContentsOfURL doesn’t retrieves data.

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.sanmarinocard.sm"];
NSData *responseData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
NSString *result = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:responseData encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];

Until a few days ago everything worked fine, but since yesterday no results.

Can you help me? Thank you.

Answer 1

I discovered that my application is blocked from the site by filtering the user-agent.
I changed the value and now it works perfectly.

I modified the code like this:

NSString *userAgent = @"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.23; Mac_PowerPC)";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://www.sanmarinocard.sm"];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc]initWithURL:url];
[request setValue:userAgent forHTTPHeaderField:@"User-Agent"];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData *responseData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
NSString *result = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:responseData encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];

Thank you!