Simple http post example in Objective-C?
I have a php webpage that requires a login (userid & password). I have the user enter the information into the app just fine.. but I need an example on how to do a POST request to a website. The apple example on the support site is rather complicated showing a picture upload.. mine should be simpler.. I just want to post 2 lines of text.. Anyone have any good examples?
Alex
Solution 1:
This is what I recently used, and it worked fine for me:
NSString *post = @"key1=val1&key2=val2";
NSData *postData = [post dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSString *postLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", [postData length]];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] autorelease];
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.nowhere.com/sendFormHere.php"]];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setValue:postLength forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];
[request setValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[request setHTTPBody:postData];
Originally taken from http://deusty.blogspot.com/2006/11/sending-http-get-and-post-from-cocoa.html, but that blog does not seem to exist anymore.
Solution 2:
From Apple's Official Website :
// In body data for the 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' content type,
// form fields are separated by an ampersand. Note the absence of a
// leading ampersand.
NSString *bodyData = @"name=Jane+Doe&address=123+Main+St";
NSMutableURLRequest *postRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://www.apple.com"]];
// Set the request's content type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded
[postRequest setValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
// Designate the request a POST request and specify its body data
[postRequest setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[postRequest setHTTPBody:[NSData dataWithBytes:[bodyData UTF8String] length:strlen([bodyData UTF8String])]];
// Initialize the NSURLConnection and proceed as described in
// Retrieving the Contents of a URL
From : code with chris
// Create the request.
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://google.com"]];
// Specify that it will be a POST request
request.HTTPMethod = @"POST";
// This is how we set header fields
[request setValue:@"application/xml; charset=utf-8" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
// Convert your data and set your request's HTTPBody property
NSString *stringData = @"some data";
NSData *requestBodyData = [stringData dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
request.HTTPBody = requestBodyData;
// Create url connection and fire request
NSURLConnection *conn = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self];
Solution 3:
ASIHTTPRequest makes network communication really easy
ASIFormDataRequest *request = [ASIFormDataRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request addPostValue:@"Ben" forKey:@"names"];
[request addPostValue:@"George" forKey:@"names"];
[request addFile:@"/Users/ben/Desktop/ben.jpg" forKey:@"photos"];
[request addData:imageData withFileName:@"george.jpg" andContentType:@"image/jpeg" forKey:@"photos"];
Solution 4:
You can do using two options:
Using NSURLConnection:
NSURL* URL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.example.com/path"];
NSMutableURLRequest* request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:URL];
request.HTTPMethod = @"POST";
// Form URL-Encoded Body
NSDictionary* bodyParameters = @{
@"username": @"reallyrambody",
@"password": @"123456"
};
request.HTTPBody = [NSStringFromQueryParameters(bodyParameters) dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
// Connection
NSURLConnection* connection = [NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:request delegate:nil];
[connection start];
/*
* Utils: Add this section before your class implementation
*/
/**
This creates a new query parameters string from the given NSDictionary. For
example, if the input is @{@"day":@"Tuesday", @"month":@"January"}, the output
string will be @"day=Tuesday&month=January".
@param queryParameters The input dictionary.
@return The created parameters string.
*/
static NSString* NSStringFromQueryParameters(NSDictionary* queryParameters)
{
NSMutableArray* parts = [NSMutableArray array];
[queryParameters enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock:^(id key, id value, BOOL *stop) {
NSString *part = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@=%@",
[key stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding],
[value stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]
];
[parts addObject:part];
}];
return [parts componentsJoinedByString: @"&"];
}
/**
Creates a new URL by adding the given query parameters.
@param URL The input URL.
@param queryParameters The query parameter dictionary to add.
@return A new NSURL.
*/
static NSURL* NSURLByAppendingQueryParameters(NSURL* URL, NSDictionary* queryParameters)
{
NSString* URLString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@?%@",
[URL absoluteString],
NSStringFromQueryParameters(queryParameters)
];
return [NSURL URLWithString:URLString];
}
Using NSURLSession
- (void)sendRequest:(id)sender
{
/* Configure session, choose between:
* defaultSessionConfiguration
* ephemeralSessionConfiguration
* backgroundSessionConfigurationWithIdentifier:
And set session-wide properties, such as: HTTPAdditionalHeaders,
HTTPCookieAcceptPolicy, requestCachePolicy or timeoutIntervalForRequest.
*/
NSURLSessionConfiguration* sessionConfig = [NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration];
/* Create session, and optionally set a NSURLSessionDelegate. */
NSURLSession* session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:sessionConfig delegate:nil delegateQueue:nil];
/* Create the Request:
Token Duplicate (POST http://www.example.com/path)
*/
NSURL* URL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.example.com/path"];
NSMutableURLRequest* request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:URL];
request.HTTPMethod = @"POST";
// Form URL-Encoded Body
NSDictionary* bodyParameters = @{
@"username": @"reallyram",
@"password": @"123456"
};
request.HTTPBody = [NSStringFromQueryParameters(bodyParameters) dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
/* Start a new Task */
NSURLSessionDataTask* task = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
if (error == nil) {
// Success
NSLog(@"URL Session Task Succeeded: HTTP %ld", ((NSHTTPURLResponse*)response).statusCode);
}
else {
// Failure
NSLog(@"URL Session Task Failed: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
}
}];
[task resume];
}
/*
* Utils: Add this section before your class implementation
*/
/**
This creates a new query parameters string from the given NSDictionary. For
example, if the input is @{@"day":@"Tuesday", @"month":@"January"}, the output
string will be @"day=Tuesday&month=January".
@param queryParameters The input dictionary.
@return The created parameters string.
*/
static NSString* NSStringFromQueryParameters(NSDictionary* queryParameters)
{
NSMutableArray* parts = [NSMutableArray array];
[queryParameters enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock:^(id key, id value, BOOL *stop) {
NSString *part = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@=%@",
[key stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding],
[value stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]
];
[parts addObject:part];
}];
return [parts componentsJoinedByString: @"&"];
}
/**
Creates a new URL by adding the given query parameters.
@param URL The input URL.
@param queryParameters The query parameter dictionary to add.
@return A new NSURL.
*/
static NSURL* NSURLByAppendingQueryParameters(NSURL* URL, NSDictionary* queryParameters)
{
NSString* URLString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@?%@",
[URL absoluteString],
NSStringFromQueryParameters(queryParameters)
];
return [NSURL URLWithString:URLString];
}