Fake internet connection on iOS simulator

I'm using Charles Proxy to redirect web requests to a local folder for an app I'm making. However it seems that NSURLConnection checks for an internet connection before attempting to download. How does it perform this check and can I fake the connection being there, because I know it will be able to download the content from the local cache. Or is there a better way of doing this?

EDIT: Actually all I need to do is connect to a fake Wifi hotspot on my laptop, I tried connecting to a BTFON hotspot, which redirects you to a login page for every request until you login (therefore appearing the laptop is connected to the int开发者_运维技巧ernet, but effectively its not) and it worked when I had Charles proxy enabled. Now I just need to find some software that can connect to Fake Wifi Hotspot, or have a virtual second Wifi adapter, create a adhoc network and connect to that (in a kind of loop)

Well it seems OSX can do this out the box. The answer is quite simple to make it appear your connected to a WiFi network, just create a adhoc (computer-to-computer) network from the Mac, you don't need to connect any other devices but it means that your computer appears connected to the internet to Laptop and iOS simulator.

So now I can download a copy of the data I need, set up redirects in Charles Proxy (<- amazing software btw) create a adhoc network and still develop my app while I'm not connected to the internet (even though it requires the internet to function)

as an idea, why don't you use your own web server?

just change the hosts file so you have a full name domain, like: http://mywebserver.local and use that in your connections, you can also provide information using the same technique.

in your program just add a DEBUG clause that would use http://mywebserver.local instead the full path.

You could try simply loading the HTML directly from your application bundle, after creating a URL via the fileURLWithPath: method.

Apple have a Technical Q&A that shows this in operation. (See the first code listing "Loading a document into a UIWebView".)