HTTP-connection with credentials to get HTML document - iphone

Question

I would like to download an HTML documents(s) to parse the content. The server asks before entering this site to put in my user credentials. In Java I arrived with a basic authentication in an asynchronous task like this (JSoup):
String base64login = new String(Base64.encodeBase64(loginDaten.getBytes()));
Document parsableDoc = Jsoup.connect(myUrl).header("Authorization","Basic"+base64login)
.timeout(3000)
.get();
but in Objective-C it doesn't work so simple as I thought. Here I want to save the website in an NSData-Object or something similar (for example NSString). Got any ideas to solve this as simple as possible? (I'm such a pro in this sector as you can see…)

Answer 1

You can do this using the NSURLConnection class ad NSMutableURLRequest. The idea is that you let the NSMutableURLRequest know what kind of auth method you want to use, and the credentials (login/password).
The following code should do it. (You will need the NSdata category for base64Encoding in this link http://cocoadev.com/wiki/BaseSixtyFour )
self.receivedData = [[NSMutableData alloc] init];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];
NSString *authStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#:%#", #"login",#"password"];
NSData *authData = [authStr dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString *authValue = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"Basic %#", [authData base64Encoding]];
[request setValue:authValue forHTTPHeaderField:#"Authorization"];
NSURLConnection *conn=[[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self];
-(void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data{
[self.receivedData appendData:data];
}
- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection {
if ([self.receivedData length] >0)
NSString *result = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:downloadedData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(#"The HTML String Is : %#", result);
{