Re: NSURLConnection failing [SOLVED]

FROM : Nir Soffer
DATE : Tue Feb 26 22:14:07 2008

On Feb 25, 2008, at 18:18, Doug Penny wrote:

>>  NSURLConnection *imageConnection = [[NSURLConnection alloc]
>>  initWithRequest:request
>>
>>                                      delegate:self];
>>
>>  if (!imageConnection) {
>>    NSLog(@"A problem was encountered while trying to download an
>>  image from %@", imageURL);
>>  }
>>


[sniped]

> Turns out garbage collection was doing me in.  When the
> NSURLConnection object was hanging out waiting for a response, it
> would get collected.  To work around this, after creating the
> NSURLConnection object I just stick it in a NSMutableSet.  When the
> delegate gets the -connectionDidFinishLoading: message I remove the
> connection object from the set.  Works great now.


Any object you create on the stack will be gone when the method is 
finished :-)

You must keep a reference to the connection.


Best Regards,

Nir Soffer