Unable to create NSUrl from NSString always getting nil

Question

NSMutableString *string = [[NSMutableString alloc]initWithString:
@"http%3A%2F%2Fsupport24hour.com%2Fworkplace2%2Fbuttler%2Fimage.php%3Fwidth%3D534%26height%3D256%26image%3Duploads%2Fdeals%2FdealImage%2Fdeal_1383005121_IGA+Logo.JPG"];

[string replaceOccurrencesOfString:@"+" withString:@" " options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch range:NSMakeRange(0, [string length])];

NSURL * url =  [NSURL URLWithString:[string stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

Answer 1

one of my colleague faced the same problem , try below line of code . Hope your problem will be resolved

NSMutableString *string = [[NSMutableString alloc]initWithString:
                           @"http%3A%2F%2Fsupport24hour.com%2Fworkplace2%2Fbuttler%2Fimage.php%3Fwidth%3D534%26height%3D256%26image%3Duploads%2Fdeals%2FdealImage%2Fdeal_1383005121_IGA+Logo.JPG"];

string = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithString:[[string stringByURLDecode] stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]];

NSURL * url =  [NSURL URLWithString:string];

NSLog(@"url = %@",url);

Where stringByURLDecode is a category method used to decode URL and it goes like this

- (NSString *)stringByURLDecode {

NSMutableString *tempStr = [NSMutableString stringWithString:self];
[tempStr replaceOccurrencesOfString:@"+" withString:@" " options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch range:NSMakeRange(0, [tempStr length])];

return [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",tempStr] stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

}

Best of Luck (y)