Issues with UIWebView and HTTP Basic Auth - http

Question

I've scoured the web on how to do basic http auth in a uiwebview. I've tried it all and am getting inconsistent results no matter what I do. Sometimes auth works, sometimes it doesn't. It's driving me up the wall and I'd love some help!
Here's the relevant code. I always get an auth challenge, but the webview doesn't always load (I basically time out waiting for webViewDidFinishLoad - no errors). Any ideas?
/*
Load a webview
*/
- (void)loadWebView
{
NSLog(#"loading webview");
if( _webView == NULL ){
// UIWebView initialization
_webView = [[UIWebView alloc] init];
_webView.hidden = TRUE;
}
// set up webview request
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:BASE_URL];
NSMutableURLRequest* request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url
cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringCacheData
timeoutInterval:30];
// load the request
[_webView setDelegate:self];
[_webView loadRequest:request];
// add ourselves as delegate to connection events so we can authenticate
(void)[NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:request delegate:self];
}
/**
authenticates against HTTP basic authorization
*/
- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge:(NSURLAuthenticationChallenge *)challenge {
//receive a authenticate and challenge with the user credential
NSLog(#"got auth challenge. Authenticating...");
if ([challenge.protectionSpace.authenticationMethod isEqualToString:NSURLAuthenticationMethodHTTPBasic] &&
[challenge previousFailureCount] == 0)
{
NSURLCredential *credentail = [NSURLCredential
credentialWithUser:AUTH_USERNAME
password:AUTH_PASS
persistence:NSURLCredentialPersistenceForSession];
[[challenge sender] useCredential:credentail forAuthenticationChallenge:challenge];
}
else
{
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Error Message" message:#"Invalid credentails" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
}
}
/**
store auth credentials
*/
- (BOOL)connectionShouldUseCredentialStorage:(NSURLConnection *)connection;
{
NSLog(#"using credential storage");
return YES;
}

Answer 1

You can pass authentication in url instead of request header
please try instead of BASE_URL:
NSString* urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#//%#:%##%#",#"http:",userName,password,myUrl]