Quickies for NSURL

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General

• Basic NSURLConnection delegate methods [permalink]
  

  - (void) connection: (NSURLConnection *) connection
   didReceiveResponse: (NSURLResponse *) response;
  
  - (void) connection:  (NSURLConnection *) connection  didReceiveData: (NSData *) data;
  
  - (void) connection: (NSURLConnection *) connection  didFailWithError: (NSError *) error;
  
  - (void) connectionDidFinishLoading: (NSURLConnection *) connection;
  

• Loading a string from a website [permalink]
  (this will block until it loads)

      NSURL *url;
      NSData *data;
      NSString *blork;
      url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://borkware.com/hacks/random"];
      data = [url resourceDataUsingCache: NO];
      blork = [[NSString alloc] initWithData: data  encoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding];

• Loading an image from a website [permalink]
  (this will block until it loads)

      NSURL *url;
      NSData *data;
      NSImage *blork;
      url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://borkware.com/hacks/random-pic"];
      data = [url resourceDataUsingCache: NO];
      blork = [[NSImage alloc] initWithData: data];

• Open an URL in iphone safari [permalink]
  

      NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://cuteoverload.com/2006/09/12/xtreme_gluttony/"];
      [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: url];
  

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