Re: Best Way to Replicate CURL in Cocoa?

FROM : Brad Gibbs
DATE : Tue Apr 01 18:03:22 2008

Thanks for the reply.



On Apr 1, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:

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> On 1 Apr '08, at 5:39 AM, Brad Gibbs wrote:
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>> Given this, I'm suspecting it responds to HTTP Posts, rather than 
>> XML-RPC or SOAP requests.

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> But both those protocols do use HTTP POSTs. (XML-RPC can use 
> alternate transports, but in practice it's almost always over HTTP.)


Fair point.  I didn't use the correct terminology (which stems from 
the fact that I'm stumbling around a bit while learning this).  I 
think it's more accurate to say that the device doesn't respond well 
to the tags in XML-RPC or SOAP.  It does better with a single string.

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>> I've seen references to a Cocoa wrapper for curl, but they're from 
>> 2002.  Looking through Apple's documentation for a more up-to-date 
>> method for sending HTTP Posts, it appears that I could make HTTP 
>> Posts from CFNetwork (CFHTTPMessage with a POST method) or through 
>> NSURLRequest.

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> Pretty much every Cocoa app that does HTTP uses NSURLRequest. It's 
> definitely the way to go for what you're doing. Create a mutable 
> one, then use its HTTP-specific setters to configure the method and 
> headers and set a body.
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> —Jens