Reading data from server script using URL

Question

I am calling a login script on the server using http call from iphone. the script returns a string "Invalid" or "valid" based on given username/pswd.

Here is what I am using:

NSString *myurlstr = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"http://www.mysite.com/iph/login.aspx?username=%@&password=%@",uname,pswd]; NSString *resultstr = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:myurlstr] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];

NSLog(@"HERE IS THE ONE: %@",resultstr);

Here is what the Console log prints:

TestingTrying[51514:207] HERE IS THE ONE: Invalid Login/Password

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >

head>title> Untitled Page

/title>/head>

body>

form name="form1" method="post" action="login.aspx?username=abc&password=abc" id="form1">

input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="/wEPDwUJNzgzNDMwNTMzZGTnVSKZt+HQfSlQeCketelC9X+47A==" />

div>

/div> /form> /body> /html>

Can someone help on how to get the string only(Invalid Login/Password) and not the content that starts from DOCTYPE onwards?

Rudiger Rudiger · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-07T05:13:41

If your simply asking how to get the first line from your server response, use a tokenizer. This should point you in the right direction, just use new line which is /n from memory as the delimiter.

Reading data from server script using URL

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