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// define url let url = NSURL(string: "https://urlToGet.com") //create a task to get data from a url let task = NSURLSession.sharedSession().dataTaskWithURL(url!) { /*inside this block, we have access to NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, and NSError...

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.example.com/"]; NSURLSessionConfiguration *configuration = [NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration]; // Configure the session here. NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:configuration]; [[s...

To create a background session // Swift: let mySessionID = "com.example.bgSession" let bgSessionConfig = NSURLSessionConfiguration.backgroundSessionConfigurationWithIdentifier(mySessionID) let session = NSURLSession(configuration: bgSessionConfig) // add tasks here //...

There are two common ways to encode a POST request body: URL encoding (application/x-www-form-urlencoded) and form data (multipart/form-data). Much of the code is similar, but the way you construct the body data is different. Sending a request using URL encoding Be it you have a server for your s...