Make an NSURL with an encoded plus (+)

Question

I need to pass a timestamp with a timezone offset in a GET request, e.g.,

2009-05-04T11:22:00+01:00

This looks like a two arguments

Answer 1

Solution when using URLComponents (Swift 3):

var params = ["email": "user+ios-default@example.com", "name": "John Brown"]
var components = URLComponents(string: "http://www.example.com")!
components.path = "/login"
components.queryItems = params.map { URLQueryItem(name: $0, value: $1) }

let url_NoFix = components.url!
// http://www.example.com/login?name=John%20Brown&email=user+ios-default@example.com

let cs = CharacterSet(charactersIn: "+").inverted
let q =  components.percentEncodedQuery?.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: cs)
components.percentEncodedQuery = q

let url_Fixed = components.url!
// http://www.example.com/login?name=John%20Brown&email=user%2Bios-default@example.com