However, now it seems my issue is with &'s in the data itself from the property list. If the plist contained an "&" somewhere, everything after that point is cut off (which makes sense). Is there any way around this? It seems I have to percent escape the data before posting, which (the only way I know how to do), has to be done with NSStrings.
Joe On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Joe Turner <joetur...@me.com> wrote: >> Hey, >> >> No one is requiring me to send a string–I do indeed send it as data, but I >> must convert values from string to data. Like, I have a title field, in >> which I must convert the title to NSData. But since there are a bunch of >> arguments like this, I just make a string like >> @"arg1=something&arg2=something...", and then do >> [dataUsingEncoding:allowLossyConversion:. >> >> Should I be doing this a better way? (I'm the one who created the web >> service, so if there's an issue with doing it this way, I can easily change >> it). > > Yes. The better way is not to use NSString, since strings are a > conceptually different beast from data. You might start out with a > string (say, the user types something into a text field), but you want > to convert that to data at some point before tacking it on to the rest > of the data that comprises your POST request. Don't conflate the two, > which you're doing by trying to build a string that contains your > urlencoded POST data. Convert the strings to data *first*, then > compile all your data into a POST request. > > --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
