iOS Accessing web services from an iPhone

[rrpalma]

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]

Or do simple HTTP POSTs and GETs?

Isn't that how most web services are done?

 

[rrpalma]

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]

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]

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

 

[robbieduncan]

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.