Cocoa Touch: How to detect a missing file on the download server
开发者_开发技巧My iOS app downloads document files from a server using the NSURLConnection
class. I use it asynchronously.
It can happen that a document is missing from the server (configuration error). I expected NSURLConnection
to call my delegate error method:
- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didFailWithError:(NSError *)error
But it doesn't. Instead, it happily downloads the HTML error 404 web page returned by the server. The only workaround I found was to check the NSURLResponse
MIMEtype
property and fail myself when it is text/html
. It works fine, but I don't like it because it precludes me from supporting html documents at a later date.
How can I check whether a requested URL is indeed present on the server?
Thanks
In the - (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response
delegate method you can ask the response for it's error code.
if ([response isKindOfClass:[NSHTTPURLResponse class]]) {
NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse*)response;
if (httpResponse.statusCode == 404) {
...
//etc
When you receive the response (in -connection:didReceiveResponse:
), you get to query the response. Because you're using HTTP, it will be a kind of NSHTTPURLResponse
, though you may want to test for that. Anyway, it will tell you a -statusCode
, which might be 200, 404 or something else.
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