How to use EGOCache to cache and load page faster

Question

I have an UIWebView in my iOS app that loads different url's depending on a previous action. I wan't these pages to load as fast as possible. I found the class EGOCache (source) and I i got it working to store cacheData in library/Caches directory. But I'm not sure how to retrieve this cache to load it faster, I can't see the difference. Maybe use NSCache? What have I missed?

- (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {
        if (webView_1) {


        NSString *urlAddress = @"http://www.apple.com";
        NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlAddress];
        NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReturnCacheDataElseLoad timeoutInterval: 10.0];
        [webView1 loadRequest:request];

        NSData *data0 = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:
                        [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]
                                             returningResponse:nil
                                                         error:nil];

        [[EGOCache globalCache] setData:data0 forKey:@"webCache"];
        }
    }

Thanks!

Answer 1

Okay so I made my own method and I got it working. All you have to do is to give the url address. See this code:

-(void)loadPage:(NSString *)urlAddress {

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlAddress];
    NSString* cachePath = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString* file = [cachePath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"/xxx.APPNAME/EGOCache/EGOCache.plist"];
    NSDictionary *dict =[NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:file];

    if ([dict objectForKey:urlAddress] )
    {
        NSData *data = [[EGOCache globalCache] dataForKey:urlAddress];
        data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:
                [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]
                                     returningResponse:nil
                                                 error:nil];
        NSLog(@"loading from cache %@",urlAddress);

    }else{
        NSData  *data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:
                         [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]
                                              returningResponse:nil
                                                          error:nil];
        [[EGOCache globalCache] setData:data forKey:urlAddress];
        NSLog(@"saving cache %@",urlAddress);
        [[EGOCache globalCache] setDefaultTimeoutInterval:60*60*24*4]; //timeout (4 days)
    }
    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReturnCacheDataElseLoad timeoutInterval: 10.0];

    [webView loadRequest:request];
}