NSMutableURLRequest remove "+" sign from request - ios

Question

I am developing an iOS app which required to send phone number on server.
When I pass number without "+" it is work fine, but when I pass number with "+" sign (+123456, +234567) then it send number like (" 123456"," 234567").
It replace "+" by " " (space).
I convert NSDictionary into JsonData .
NSError *err;
NSData *data=[NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:mdict options:0 error:&err];
NSString *str=[[NSString alloc]initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString *strjson=[NSString stringWithFormat:#"GetData=%#",str];
NSLog(#"strjson=%#",strjson);
My code to build NSMutableRequest object.
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];
__weak NSString *postLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%lu", (unsigned long)[soadMessage length]];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];
[request setURL:url];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[request setValue:postLength forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Length"];
[request setHTTPBody:[soadMessage dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[request addValue: #"application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8" forHTTPHeaderField: #"Content-Type"];
_connection = [[NSURLConnection alloc]initWithRequest:request delegate:self];
[_connection start];
Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Try to escape your string with the CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes
+ (NSString *)escapeValueForURLParameter:(NSString *)valueToEscape {
if (![valueToEscape isKindOfClass:[NSString class]]) {
valueToEscape = [(id)valueToEscape stringValue];
}
return (__bridge_transfer NSString *) CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes(NULL, (__bridge CFStringRef) valueToEscape,
NULL, (CFStringRef) #"!*'();:#&=+$,/?%#[]", kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
}

Answer 2

You need to format the value of mdict to take out the + character. Or you could also trim it from the JSON at the end. Either way you will get the desired result.
Something like this:
mdict["Phone"].value = [mdict["Phone"].value stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"+"
withString:#""];
This is pseudocode but you get the idea. After doing this you can do the serialization and it should be fine.