Objective-C: Best way to access REST API on your iphone

Question

been wrestling with this for some time. I am trying to access a REST api on my iphone and came across the ASIHTTP framework that would assist me. So i did something like

//call sites, so we can confirm username and password and site/sites
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: urlbase];
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [[[ASIHTTPRequest alloc] initWithURL:url] autorelease];
[request setUsername:@"doronkatz%40xx.com" ];
[request setPassword:@"xxx"];

Where urlbase is a url to a REST site.

Now, a developer has told me there might be an issue or bug with this framework, and its not passing headers correctly. Is there another way of testing or accessing with authentication a network REST location?

Answer 1

I would recommend checking out RestKit: http://restkit.org/ It provides an excellent API for accessing RESTful web services and representing the remote resources as local objects, including persisting them to Core Data. HTTP authentication is supported out of the box.