objective c - MBProgressHUD with NSURLConnection

Question

I was trying to use MBProgressHUD with NSURLConnection.

The example in Demo project of MBProgressHUD reports:

- (IBAction)showURL:(id)sender {
    NSURL *URL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://github.com/matej/MBProgressHUD/zipball/master"];
    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:URL];

    NSURLConnection *connection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self];
    [connection start];
    [connection release];

    HUD = [[MBProgressHUD showHUDAddedTo:self.navigationController.view animated:YES] retain];
    HUD.delegate = self;
}



- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response {
    expectedLength = [response expectedContentLength];
    currentLength = 0;
    HUD.mode = MBProgressHUDModeDeterminate;
}

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data {
    currentLength += [data length];
    HUD.progress = currentLength / (float)expectedLength;
}

- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection {
    HUD.customView = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"37x-Checkmark.png"]] autorelease];
    HUD.mode = MBProgressHUDModeCustomView;
    [HUD hide:YES afterDelay:2];
}

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didFailWithError:(NSError *)error {
    [HUD hide:YES];
}

Running it, the HUD in determinate mode spins fine.

I tried to implement this, but here

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data {
        currentLength += [data length];
        HUD.progress = currentLength / (float)expectedLength;
    }

the circle is empty and not filled.

I don't know if it depends on the dimension of the requested url.

I request to download a plist (~80 kb) from my website, but the circle keeps being empty and console reports

<Error>: void CGPathAddArc(CGPath*, const CGAffineTransform*, CGFloat, CGFloat, CGFloat, CGFloat, CGFloat, bool): invalid value for start or end angle.

I even tried to do this way:

float progress = 0.0f;
    while (progress < 1.0f) {
        progress += 0.01f;
        HUD.progress = progress;
    }

But now the circle is completely full and not doing any animation.

I think it depends on the dimension of the requested url, but i'm not so sure, does anyone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

I solved the problem this way, switching from NSURLRequest to NSMutableURLRequestand setting the value none to the encoding (previously in gzip)

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:anURL];
[request addValue:@"" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Encoding"];