Objective-C SSL Synchronous Connection
- by Mike
Hello,
I'm a little new to objective-C but have run across a problem that I can't solve, mostly because I'm not sure I am implementing the solution correctly.
I am trying to connect using a Synchronous Connection to a https site with a self-signed certificate. I am getting the
Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1202 "untrusted server certificate"
Error that I have seen some solutions to on this forum. The solution i found was to add:
- (BOOL)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection canAuthenticateAgainstProtectionSpace:(NSURLProtectionSpace *)protectionSpace {
return [protectionSpace.authenticationMethod isEqualToString:NSURLAuthenticationMethodServerTrust];
}
(void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge:(NSURLAuthenticationChallenge *)challenge {
[challenge.sender useCredential:[NSURLCredential credentialForTrust:challenge.protectionSpace.serverTrust] forAuthenticationChallenge:challenge];
}
to the NSURLDelegate to accept all certificates. When I connect to the site using just a:
NSURLRequest *theRequest=[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://examplesite.com/"] cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy timeoutInterval:60.0];
NSURLConnection *theConnection=[[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:theRequest delegate:self];
It works fine and I see the challenge being accepted. However when I try to connect using the synchronous connection I still get the error and I don't see the challenge functions being called when I put in logging.
How can I get the synchronous connection to use the challenge methods? Is it something to do with the delegate:self part of the URLConnection? I also have logging for sending/receiving data within the NSURLDelegate that is called by my connection function but not by the synchronous function.
What I am using for the synchronous part:
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL: [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://examplesite.com/"]];
[request setHTTPMethod: @"POST"];
[request setHTTPBody: [[NSString stringWithString:@"username=mike"] dataUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
dataReply = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
NSLog(@"%@", error);
stringReply = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:dataReply encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", stringReply);
[stringReply release];
NSLog(@"Done");
Like I mentioned I'm a little new to objective C so be kind :)
Thanks for any help.
Mike
