Get the HTML content when hitting URL in swift 3

Question

My question is i want to hit the url and when i hit the url on server side the php return the results just echo in php and i have to save that result in variable in swift 3, i tried the below code:

let URLstr = URL(string: strURL)
let request = URLRequest(url: URLstr!)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
print (request)

I didn't get the content of URL in swift which is much easier in objective C.

Answer 1

Use the string initializer with the url.

do {
  let contents = try String(contentsOf: URLstr, encoding: .ascii)
} catch {
  // handle error
}

Or you can use URLSession.

let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: URLStr) { data, response, error in
   guard data != nil else { // no data }
   let contents = String(data: data!, encoding: .ascii)  
}
task.resume()