iOS Accessing web services from an iPhone

rrpalma · Jul 23, 2010

Hello,

Total noob here to iphone programming, but not to Objective-C.

Does the iPhone SDK provide for a set of classes / APIs to access remote web services? Or do simple HTTP POSTs and GETs?

Thanks for your comments!

dejo · Jul 23, 2010

rrpalma said:
Or do simple HTTP POSTs and GETs?

Isn't that how most web services are done?

rrpalma · Jul 23, 2010

dejo said:
Isn't that how most web services are done?

Thanks for reading. You're right I guess. But although all web services involve a POST (or a GET) not all GETs or POSTs are for web services. So perhaps I should rephrase my question to a more specific:

Does the iphone SDK provide an API for SOAP based web services, or at the very least, for doing basic POSTs and GETs?

robbieduncan · Jul 24, 2010

rrpalma said:
Does the iphone SDK provide an API for SOAP based web services, or at the very least, for doing basic POSTs and GETs?

I don't think there i built-in support for SOAP. NSURLConnection can do POST or GET http connections.

skunkworker · Jul 24, 2010

Can't NSURLConnection pretty much do any thing that a RESTful interface would allow?

robbieduncan · Jul 24, 2010

skunkworker said:
Can't NSURLConnection pretty much do any thing that a RESTful interface would allow?

Yes, but you have to do a lot of work yourself. If Apple chose to provide a set of classes for this sort of thing you can imagine it would be a few lines of code only.

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