NSURLConnection and SSL

[Maxthon Chan]

Hi Everyone:

I am writing a project for OS X, iOS and Linux, and a cross-platform lore library is called for. This following code works fine under both OS X and iOS, but are very problematic under Linux using GNUstep:

- (NSData *)dataWithData:(NSData *)data fromMethod:(NSString *)method error:(NSError *__autoreleasing *)error

{

    NSURL *methodURL = [NSURL URLWithString:method relativeToURL:self.serverRoot];

    

    NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:methodURL];

    

    if ([data length])

    {

        [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];

        [request setHTTPBody:data];

    }

    

    [request setValue:[self userAgent] forHTTPHeaderField:@"User-Agent"];

    

    NSError *err = nil;

    NSHTTPURLResponse *response = nil;

    

    NSData *responseData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request

                                                 returningResponse:&response

                                                             error:&err];

    

    if (![responseData length])

    {

        WFAssignPointer(error, err);

        return nil;

    }

    

    if ([response statusCode] >= 400)

    {

        NSDictionary *userInfo = @{

                                   NSLocalizedDescriptionKey:

                                       NSLocalizedStringFromTableInBundle(WFSTR(@"http%ld", [response statusCode]),

                                                                          @"error",

                                                                          WFThisBundle,

                                                                          @"")

                                   };

        err = [NSError errorWithDomain:WFErrorDoamin

                                  code:[response statusCode]

                              userInfo:userInfo];

        WFAssignPointer(error, err);

        return nil;

    }

    

    return responseData;

}

The methodURL is a HTTPS URL.

The call to [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:returningResponse:error] failed silently, making this code very confused.

Would anyone tell me what happened?