Hey.
I am currently using [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url] to download the contents of an external webpage to my app.
Is there any other way that might be faster or better/safer?
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look up NSURLConnection. It runs asynchronously and therefore won't slow down or temporarily crash your application.
Thomas Clayson
2010-10-06 15:07:44
I am running this in the background already, so no need for more asyncness :)
Emil
2010-10-06 15:09:45
But I will try out NSURLConnection.
Emil
2010-10-06 15:10:53
well it might be ok anyway, what it does is it gets the remote file in strings of data. :) so you just string all the data together into an NSString. :)
Thomas Clayson
2010-10-06 15:39:29
With NSURLConnection, you can distinguish whether the URL points to an empty file, or the network connection somehow failed and returned something empty. That's sometimes quite important.
Yuji
2010-10-06 15:58:55
And NSURLConnection proved to be 3,5 seconds faster! Thanks :) @Yuji Yep, that's great for me.
Emil
2010-10-06 19:03:19