将iPhone HTTP请求发送到Apache PHP Web服务器

Question

I am programmer with a games and 3D graphics background and at the moment I would like to brush up on my networking and web development skills.

I have a task that I would like to accomplish to do this. My idea is that I would like to be able to send a HTTP request or something similar to my webserver, which runs a LAMP based setup. I would like to know how I can send a HTTP request containing some information from my iPhone using the Cocoa Touch framework, to my webserver.

I would like the webserver (using PHP) to be able to record the sent information into a plain text file, that I can use later to make graphs. For my example we could just send the current date.

I think that people must do this very often and I really want to know how to do this. Thanks for your help.

P.S. If you don't know the Cocoa code in order to send the request, that's okay I'm sure I can figure that out, but I would like to at least know how to get the Linux server to save the HTTP request, preferrably PHP but another appropriate language is fine. Bonus marks for away to do this securely.

Also: I am a total noob at this and require source code, cheers :D

Answer 1

You really can't go past a library like ASIHTTPRequest if you need to make HTTP requests from an iPhone or Mac client to a web server. The documentation is very good, and covers all the important topics like:

• asynchronous vs synchronous requests
• sending data to the server
• tracking upload/download progress
• handling authentication
• using the keychain for storage of credentials
• compressing request bodies with gzip

You should check it out -- it will make your life much easier.