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NSString constants for NSURLRequest HTTPMethod property?

Does Foundation have NSString constants for the supported HTTPMethod values (eg for GET, POST, etc)?

Searched the NSURLRequest docs, but couldn't find anything.

Solution

  • To my knowledge, NSURLRequest doesn't have any constants for HTTP method types. You could, however, define your own and use them elsewhere. Something like this:

    //Somewhere
#define setPOST(request) [request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"]

//...later in code
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];
setPOST(request);

    I would also highly recommend using AFNetworking. With that library, you can easily do things like:

    [connectionMgr POST:url parameters:submitDict success:nil failure:nil]; //Obviously bare-bones, you'd need to fill in the parameters and blocks