Question

I’m using NSURLConnection and NSURLRequest to do a HTTP POST of some XML data to a server.

However the server cannot find the data in the HTTP body because it has been packaged up assuming a web page is doing a form submission (parameter=form-urlencoded is getting set, presumably by default by NSURLConnection?).

This is not something I am doing explicitly, I am simply adding the body data using:

  [request setHTTPBody: [body dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

How can I stop/override this behaviour?

Answer 1

I don’t know the default value, but you can change it with:

[request setValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded charset=utf-8" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];

Take a look to the documentation.