newby IOS: unable to redirect url - ios5

Question

This is my first IOS project. Having a tough time getting login to work. The site has a meta_refresh to another url. I've tried to send another request to the url in the meta_refresh but then the app just hangs. I'm sure that I'm doing something wrong but I'm using XCode 4.4 so a lot of the NSURLConnection delegate methods have been deprecated.
Here's what I'm doing:
NSString *urlAsString = baseURL;
urlAsString = [urlAsString stringByAppendingString:#"?user[login]=username"];
urlAsString = [urlAsString stringByAppendingString:#"&user[password]=password"];
urlAsString = [urlAsString stringByAppendingString:#"&origin=splash"];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlAsString];
NSMutableURLRequest *urlRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[urlRequest setTimeoutInterval:30.0f];
[urlRequest setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData *data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:urlRequest returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if([data length] > 0 && error == nil){
NSString *html = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(#"HTML = %#", html);
NSRange obj = [html rangeOfString:#"http-equiv=\"refresh\""];
NSInteger len = obj.length;
} else if([data length] == 0 && error == nil) {
NSLog(#"No data was returned.");
} else {
NSLog(#"Error happened = %#", error);
}
Here's what I'm getting:
Another question is that I've read that I should use asynchronous connection. The trouble is that I need the data scraped from the site to display on the screen. If I display the screen before the data is returned, then I won't have any data -- or am I not understanding how this works?
Thanks.
--Tony

Answer 1

I think that maybe you're a mixing stuff. You're setting a string url with GET values and then you set the HTTPMethod to POST and I don't know if that is going to work fine.
Here's a code that I have to send values with POST:
NSString *post = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"&user_login=%#&user_password=%#&origin=%#,username,password, splash];
NSData *postData = [post dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSString *postLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d",[postData length]];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] autorelease];
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:baseURL]]];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[request setValue:postLength forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Length"];
[request setHTTPBody:postData];
NSURLConnection *conn = [[NSURLConnection alloc]initWithRequest:request delegate:self];