Plain HTTP GET request.

http-get.m

- ( NSString * ) loadFileHTTPGet : ( NSString * ) url
{
    NSArray * crayola;
    NSArray * parts;
    NSData * get;
    NSError * error;
    NSHTTPURLResponse * response;
    NSMutableURLRequest * request;
    NSString * contents;
    
    // Load a file over HTTP GET
    request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];
    [request setHTTPMethod : @"GET"];
    [request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString : url]];
    
    error = [[NSError alloc] init];
    
    response = nil;
    
    get = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest : request returningResponse : &response error : &error];
    
    if( [response statusCode] != 200 )
    {
        NSLog( @"Error making HTTP request: %@", error );
    } else {
        contents = [[NSString alloc] initWithData : get encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog( @"%@", contents );
        
        // Parse basic CSV
        crayola = [contents componentsSeparatedByString : @"\r"];
        NSLog( @"%lu", (unsigned long)[crayola count] );
        
        for( NSString * item in crayola )
        {
            parts = [item componentsSeparatedByString : @","];
            NSLog( @"Name: %@, Hex: %@, Year: %@", [parts objectAtIndex : 0], [parts objectAtIndex : 1], [parts objectAtIndex : 6] );
        }
    }
    
    return contents;
}