how to prevent NSJSONSerialization from adding extra escapes in URL

Question

How do I prevent NSJSONSerialization from adding extra backslashes to my URL strings?

NSDictionary *info = @{@"myURL":@"http://www.example.com/test"};
NSData data = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:info options:0 error:NULL];
NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:policyData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", string);//{"myURL":"http:\/\/www.example.com\/test"}

I can strip the backslashes and use that string but I would like to skip that step if possible...

Answer 1

Yeah, this is quite irritating and even more so because it seems there's no "quick" fix to this (i.e. for NSJSONSerialization)

source:
http://www.blogosfera.co.uk/2013/04/nsjsonserialization-serialization-of-a-string-containing-forward-slashes-and-html-is-escaped-incorrectly/
or
NSJSONSerialization serialization of a string containing forward slashes / and HTML is escaped incorrectly

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(just shooting in the dark here so bear with me)
If, you're making your own JSON then simply make an NSData object out of a string and send it to the server.
No need to go via NSJSONSerialization.

Something like:

NSString *strPolicy = [info description];
NSData *policyData = [strPolicy dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

i know it won't be so simple but... hm... anyways