iOS Is there an easier way to do an HTTP POST

[beachdog]

Currently I'm having to construct the multi-part body myself (see example code below). I'm surprised that there isn't an easier way to do this...or is there?

/* construct body of the request */
NSString* boundary = [NSString stringWithString:@"---28461D3FG"];
NSMutableData* data = [NSMutableData data];
[data appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]];
[data appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"subscriberid\"\r\n\r\n%@",strSubId] dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]];
[data appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]];
[data appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"greetingid\"\r\n\r\n%@",strGreetingId] dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]];
/* ...etc */

NSURL* url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://216.41.17.74/uploaGreetingRequest.jsp"];
NSMutableURLRequest* request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData timeoutInterval:60.0];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"multipart/form-data; boundary=%@", boundary] forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[request setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", [data length]]  forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];
[request setHTTPBody:data];

 

[hchung]

That's about it. It looks fairly similar to the one on http://deusty.blogspot.com/2006/11/sending-http-get-and-post-from-cocoa.html
which I followed when I needed to do a post.

The next best thing you can do is factor it out into a method and then call that.