Empty body in POST in ASIHTTPRequest - iphone

Question

Basically, I am sending a POST request with an empty data body:
ASIHTTPRequest *request [ASIHTTPRequest alloc] init];
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:escapedUrlString]];
[request setRequestMethod:#"POST"];
[request addRequestHeader:#"Content-Type" value:#"application/xml"];
[request startSynchronous];
But i am getting this response each time:
Incorrect NSStringEncoding value 0x0000 detected. Assuming NSStringEncodingASCII. Will stop this compatiblity mapping behavior in the near future.
I am wondering if it's mandatory to set post values.

Answer 1

I don't have much experience with the ASIHTTPRequest wrapper but I can see you are initialising it with alloc:init whilst most examples I've seen have a convenience initialiser requestWithURL:(NSURL*)url i.e.
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [AIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:escapedUrlString];
At a guess I'd say this convenience initaliser will also set some of the required variables for your post request to work, including NSStringEnconding.
From the ASIHTTPRequest documentation at http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/How-to-use#handling_text_encodings
Handling text encodings
ASIHTTPRequest will attempt to read
the text encoding of the received data
from the Content-Type header. If it
finds a text encoding, it will set
responseEncoding to the appropriate
NSStringEncoding. If it does not find
a text encoding in the header, it will
use the value of
defaultResponseEncoding (this defaults
to NSISOLatin1StringEncoding).
When you call [request
responseString], ASIHTTPRequest will
attempt to create a string from the
data it received, using
responseEncoding as the source
encoding.

Answer 2

As Rog says, use initWithURL or requestWithURL. Anyway, in my case the problem was that I was connecting to a slow server and the request timed out giving the "Incorrect NSStringEncoding value 0x0000 detected" error.
I solved it with:
request.timeOutSeconds = 50;
You can try with more than 50 second if your server is even slower.