sendSynchronousRequest with self signed certificate

Hi

 

Due to the application design I cannot use the – initWithRequest:delegate: method of NSURLConnection class for my https requests to a server. Hence I have to make synchronous calls using sendSynchronousRequest:returningResponse:error.

 

When I was using initWithRequest , it was taking a class delegate of NSURLConnectionDelegate class hence I handled the self signed certificate problem by the following code:-

 

- (BOOL)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection canAuthenticateAgainstProtectionSpace:(NSURLProtectionSpace *)protectionSpace {

 

    return [protectionSpace.authenticationMethod isEqualToString:NSURLAuthenticationMethodServerTrust];

}

 

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge:(NSURLAuthenticationChallenge *)challenge {

   

    [challenge.sender useCredential:[NSURLCredential credentialForTrust:challenge.protectionSpace.serverTrust] forAuthenticationChallenge:challenge];

   

    [challenge.sender continueWithoutCredentialForAuthenticationChallenge:challenge];

}

 

 

Now the problem is that sendSynchronousRequest does not take any delegates to be called on. So now how do I handle non trusted certificate problem using synchronous request.

 

 

I searched but so far can't find any solution.

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