[bug #35686] NSURLConnection does not retain its delegate (compatibility issue)

[Jens Alfke]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35686>

                 Summary: NSURLConnection does not retain its delegate
(compatibility issue)
                 Project: GNUstep
            Submitted by: snej
            Submitted on: Fri 02 Mar 2012 12:58:46 AM GMT
                Category: Base/Foundation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

On OS X and iOS, "NSURLConnection retains its delegate when it is initialized.
It releases the delegate when the connection finishes loading, fails, or is
canceled." (From the NSURLConnection class reference overview.) This means the
application does not have to explicitly retain or release the delegate object
as long as it's an ephemeral object specific to that request (which is pretty
common.)

On GNUstep, however, this doesn't happen.  This is very likely to lead to
incorrect behavior, most likely the app crashing when the NSURLConnection
tries to call the nonexistent delegate.




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