nsurlsessiontask – Tarik Billa

What is difference between NSURLSessionDataTask vs NSURLSessionDownloadTask

September 6, 2023 by Tarik

NSURLSessionDataTask : Data tasks exchange data using NSData. NSURLSessionDataTask is not supported in Background Sessions. Data tasks send and receive data using NSData objects. Data tasks are intended for short, often interactive requests from your app to a server. Data tasks can return data to your app one piece at a time after each piece … Read more

How to disable caching from NSURLSessionTask

March 22, 2023 by Tarik

If your read the links from @runmad you can see in the flow chart that if the HEAD of the file is unchanged it will still used the cached version when you set the cachePolicy. In Swift3 I had to do this to get it to work: let config = URLSessionConfiguration.default config.requestCachePolicy = .reloadIgnoringLocalCacheData config.urlCache … Read more