iOS 5 - connect to an HTTPS server - ios

Question

I am trying to overcome the change done in iOS 5 regarding the NSURLConnection.
Basically the methods changed, so if you need to connect to a site that uses HTTPS and send credentials to authenticate, you cannot do it anymore, because many methods were deprecated.
Is there any place where I can get a working example of how should I write the code to use iOS5 compliant code? I've check the documentation and the headers but not a single source around show me how to make such connection with an example, that shows where the code goes in which file (assume that I just start from a standard template from Xcode, like the single view template or the tab bar template).
I would really appreciate any suggestion; Since my app will run on iOS 5 I would like to use the new procedure, but the lack of documentation and tutorials are making my task harder than what I thought.

Answer 1

You should use the NSURLCredentialStorage singleton. You need to add the credentials to the storage before using NSURLConnection by calling one of the NSURLCredentialStorage methods, for instance:
- (void)setCredential:(NSURLCredential *)credential forProtectionSpace:(NSURLProtectionSpace *)protectionSpace

Answer 2

I use this:
- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection willSendRequestForAuthenticationChallenge:
(NSURLAuthenticationChallenge *)challenge {
if ([challenge previousFailureCount] <= maxRetryCount ) {
NSURLCredential *newCredential =
[NSURLCredential
credentialWithUser: userName
password:password
persistence:NSURLCredentialPersistenceForSession];
[[challenge sender]
useCredential:newCredential
forAuthenticationChallenge:challenge];
}
else
{
NSLog(#"Failure count %d",[challenge previousFailureCount]);
}
}
This works fine for me. However, it looks like self signed certificates are accepted too. I probably need to post a separate question about that.