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iOS

Posted by Nathan Bills
Nathan Bills
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How do you send an authenticated GET request to a URL and get an HTML response in an iOS Swift app?

I'm trying to build an iOS Swift app. I would like to be able to login to Facebook and send a request to a URL and get the raw HTML in return. I have started using the Facebook Login API and got that working successfully. I have also used a library called Alamofire that allows you to send HTTP requests(not sure if I'm explaining this properly) to a URL and the HTML is returned. What I would like to do is either use the Facebook Login API or any other method to authenticate and send a GET request to a Facebook URL. Currently, when I try this, I get the HTML back as a String, but I'm not logged-in and the HTML is that of a logged-out user. I've also tried modifying the code from Pasan Premaratne's Swift videos Network Operations and Methods with Closures.

Any help on this and I'll love you forever!!