Is the ASIHTTPRequest is not asynchronous ?

Question

Hi all ,

I am using ASIHTTPRequest to fetch some data from a web service.

I am making requests using a loop.

The problem is that it doesn't seem the request is going asynchronously so that my activityindicator is not working .

Is it true that ASIHTTPRequest is not asynchronous .

or should i use the regular nsmutablerequest to perform asynchronous request .

Answer 1

You should put your request in a download queue, i.e.

ASIHTTPRequest *request = [[ASIHTTPRequest alloc] initWithURL:url];
[request setDelegate:self];
[request setDidFinishSelector:@selector(requestDone:)];
[request setDidFailSelector:@selector(requestWentWrong:)];
NSOperationQueue *queue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
[queue addOperation:request];
[request release];    

Just

[request startAsynchronous]; 

runs the request on the UI thread, so you should try it with download queue.