You probably shouldn't be doing that. It violates the spirit of GET if not the 
letter of the spec.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-request-body

I wouldn't be surprised if your inability to make NSURLRequest do it was 
intentional on the part of the NSURLRequest designers.

Avi

> On Jul 5, 2015, at 01:55, Antonio Nunes <devli...@sintraworks.com> wrote:
> 
> I have the following curl command to a web api, which retrieves some info:
> curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Basic blabla' -H 'Content-Type: 
> application/xml; charset=utf-8' -H 'Accept-Language: en' -d 
> "<user><account_attributes><email>y...@example.com</email><password>SomePassWord</password></account_attributes></user>"
>  'https://example.com/api/v1/endpoint
> 
> The -d and xml-string are mandatory for this GET command. I haven’t been able 
> to translate this into an equivalent NSURLRequest that gets accepted by the 
> server. It appears that an HTTPBody on a GET request is not honoured by 
> NSURLRequest.
> 
> This is the code I use to make the request (on iOS):
>  NSURLCredential *credential = [[WRTSServerEngine sharedServerEngine] 
> savedCredentialsForHost:@“example.com"
>                                                                               
>            port:0
>                                                                               
>        protocol:@"https"
>                                                                               
>           realm:@“SomeRealm"];
> 
>  NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] 
> initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://example.com/api/v1/endpoint";]];
> 
>  NSString *authStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@:%@", credential.user, 
> credential.password];
>  NSData *authData = [authStr dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
>  NSString *authValue = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"Basic %@",[authData 
> base64EncodedStringWithOptions:0]];
>  [request setValue:authValue forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
>  [request setValue:@"nl, en-us" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Language"];
>  [request setValue:@"gzip" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Encoding"];
> 
>  NSString *infoAsXMLString = @"<user>";
>  infoAsXMLString = [infoAsXMLString 
> stringByAppendingString:@"<account_attributes>"];
>  infoAsXMLString = [infoAsXMLString 
> stringByAppendingFormat:@"<email>%@</email>", credential.user];
>  infoAsXMLString = [infoAsXMLString 
> stringByAppendingFormat:@"<password>%@</password>", credential.password];
>  infoAsXMLString = [infoAsXMLString 
> stringByAppendingString:@"</account_attributes>"];
>  infoAsXMLString = [infoAsXMLString stringByAppendingString:@"</user>"];
>  [request setHTTPBody:[infoAsXMLString 
> dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
> 
>  NSURLSessionConfiguration *sessionConfig = [NSURLSessionConfiguration 
> defaultSessionConfiguration];
>  sessionConfig.allowsCellularAccess = YES;
>  NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession 
> sessionWithConfiguration:sessionConfig];
>  self.task = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request
>                         completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse 
> *response, NSError *error) {
>                             NSLog(@"%@", error);
>                         }];
>  [self.task resume];
> 
> This results in the following error:
> Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1005 "The network connection was lost." 
> UserInfo=0x7ffd0b5f7a00 {NSUnderlyingError=0x7ffd0b58be50 "The operation 
> couldn’t be completed. (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error -1005.)", 
> NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://staging.wrts.nl/api/v1/existing_user, 
> NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://staging.wrts.nl/api/v1/existing_user, 
> _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=4, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-4, 
> NSLocalizedDescription=The network connection was lost.}
> 
> If I do not set an HHTPBody on the request, I get a 500 error (which makes 
> sense, since the server is expecting a payload in the body).
> 
> Is there any way to get the HHTPBody sent along with the GET request?
> 
> -António
> 
> 
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