When to call release on NSURLConnection delegate?

Question

When passing a delegate to the a NSUrlConnection object like so:

[[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:handler];
         


        

Answer 1

Your need to release the connection, not the delegate. The NSURLConnection class I think does not retain the delegate, which is why you get a crash when you try and release it.

The two places to release the connection are connection:DidFinishLoading, and connection:didFailWithError.