Re: NSURLConnection and SSL

[Fred Kiefer]

On 09.04.2013 18:05, Maxthon Chan wrote:
> 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?

You understand that you will have to provide a full working example 
which allows somebody else to reproduce your problem? The best thing to 
do is write a very simple example that reproduces the issue.

And please, make sure that you are using a current version of base.