Error when making post request to server in Swift - php

Question

I'm relatively new to iOS development. Currently, I'm following the tutorial on making POST request to server in Swift. However, I'm getting error messages that I don't really understand what is wrong with it.
2016-01-08 14:44:48.991 test[24331:4311765] NSURLSession/NSURLConnection HTTP load failed (kCFStreamErrorDomainSSL, -9802)
error=Optional(Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1200 "An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made., NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Would you like to connect to the server anyway?, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=3, NSUnderlyingError=0x7c28c9b0 {Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1200 "(null)" UserInfo={_kCFStreamPropertySSLClientCertificateState=0, _kCFNetworkCFStreamSSLErrorOriginalValue=-9802, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-9802, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=3, kCFStreamPropertySSLPeerTrust=<SecTrustRef: 0x7ae43c60>, kCFStreamPropertySSLPeerCertificates=<CFArray 0x7c28aad0 [0x4ef098]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (
0 : <cert(0x7c191330) s: localhost i: localhost>
)}}}, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-9802, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://localhost/, NSErrorPeerCertificateChainKey=<CFArray 0x7c28aad0 [0x4ef098]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (
0 : <cert(0x7c191330) s: localhost i: localhost>
)}, NSErrorClientCertificateStateKey=0, NSURLErrorFailingURLPeerTrustErrorKey=<SecTrustRef: 0x7ae43c60>, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://localhost/})
POST request in Swift:
let myUrl = NSURL(string: "https://localhost");
let request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL:myUrl!);
request.HTTPMethod = "POST";
// Compose a query string
let postString = "firstName=James&lastName=Bond";
request.HTTPBody = postString.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding);
let task = NSURLSession.sharedSession().dataTaskWithRequest(request) {
data, response, error in
if error != nil
{
print("error=\(error)")
return
}
// You can print out response object
print("response = \(response)")
// Print out response body
let responseString = NSString(data: data!, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
print("responseString = \(responseString)")
//Let’s convert response sent from a server side script to a NSDictionary object:
do {
let myJSON = try NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data!, options: .MutableContainers) as? NSDictionary
// YOUR CODE HERE
if let parseJSON = myJSON {
// Now we can access value of First Name by its key
let firstNameValue = parseJSON["firstName"] as? String
print("firstNameValue: \(firstNameValue)")
}
} catch {
print(error)
}
}
task.resume()
Code in index.php:
<?php
// Read request parameters
$firstName= $_REQUEST["firstName"];
$lastName = $_REQUEST["lastName"];// Store values in an array
$returnValue = array(“firstName”=>$firstName, “lastName”=>$lastName);
// Send back request in JSON format
echo json_encode($returnValue);
?>

Answer 1

Your localhost is not https, it's http. In iOS 9 you'll have to disable that in your info.plist so it allows you to make requests to non-https targets.
Add this to your info.plist