Probably only moderately better, since at best you're saving spinning up a
thread.
Most important is that NSURLConnection is cancellable, and has delegate methods
you can implement for more control.
On 12 Oct 2011, at 20:21, Martin Linklater wrote:
Thanks Mike,
At the moment I'm using
Thanks Mike,
At the moment I'm using [NSData +dataWithContentsOfURL] running in its own GCD
dispatch queue. How much better performance should I expect to get using
NSURLConnection ?
I'll need to weigh up the benefits before I go refactoring the server code.
Cheers.
On 7 Oct 2011, at 15:04,
Hi - I'm writing an iOS client for an online retailer and I'm having trouble
with the way NSURL encodes square brackets. I'm building an http request using
a string then converting it to a NSURL before calling [NSData
dataWithContentsOfURL].
The troblesome piece of the http path is:
On 7 October 2011 12:45, Martin Linklater mslinkla...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi - I'm writing an iOS client for an online retailer and I'm having trouble
with the way NSURL encodes square brackets. I'm building an http request
using a string then converting it to a NSURL before calling [NSData
Is that a valid URL? I looked at the old RFC from 1994 and that defines '[' and
']' as 'national' characters and states they must not appear in URLs.
So it would seem the online retailer you're dealing with accepts URLs it
shouldn't accept, but doesn't accept the properly encoded version of
Thanks Roland.
I'm close enough to hopefully get them to make the required changes at there
end.
Cheers
On 7 Oct 2011, at 12:58, Roland King wrote:
Is that a valid URL? I looked at the old RFC from 1994 and that defines '['
and ']' as 'national' characters and states they must not appear
On 7 Oct 2011, at 12:45, Martin Linklater wrote:
Hi - I'm writing an iOS client for an online retailer and I'm having trouble
with the way NSURL encodes square brackets. I'm building an http request
using a string then converting it to a NSURL before calling [NSData
