Question

In iOS 5 [NSURLConnection originalRequest] works fine, however in iOS 4 it throws an exception:

-[NSURLConnection originalRequest]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x65609a0

It seems like the iOS 4.3 SDK doesn’t have a originalRequest method.

What can I use instead to get a NSURLConnection‘s original request in iOS 4?

Answer 1

What I did was this: I created a NSString *origiOS4 and if the running OS is iOS4 then I initialize the string and give it the urls value. In the connection:didReceiveData: method then, I read the value from origiOS4.

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response {
    float version = [[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue];
    if (version < 5) {
        origiOS4 = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:response.URL.absoluteString];
    }
}