AFNetworking 2 POST with Authentication challenge - afnetworking

Question

Im using AFNetworking 2, with AFHTTPRequestOperation I can use for my Get
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"GET"];
AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:request];
operation.securityPolicy = securityPolicy;
[operation setWillSendRequestForAuthenticationChallengeBlock:
^(NSURLConnection *connection, NSURLAuthenticationChallenge *challenge) {
//the certificate
}
[operation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
DLog(#"operation :: %#", responseObject);
NSString *result = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:responseObject encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
DLog(#"operation :: %#", result);
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
DLog(#"operation error :: %#", error);
}];
[operation start];
But now i need to use POST, with parameters,
I have problems finding how to set parameters on
AFHTTPRequestOperation
or finding how to set challenge block for
AFHTTPRequestOperationManager
how to have a POST with parameters and challenge block?
cheers

Answer 1

I am working now on the POST request. So far I've came up with the following code while trying to send an NSDictionary with POST method:
NSDictionary*packet = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: ......
[manager POST:path
parameters:packet
success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
NSLog(#"JSON: %#", responseObject);
if ([responseObject isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]])
[self parseReceivedDataPacket:responseObject];
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error);
}];
Actually it works for me, apart from getting an "unacceptable content-type: text/html" when sending this data. But it gets received.
Hope this was useful.