http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/basic_authentication_iphone_cocoa_touch Comments about Basic Authentication with a NSURLRequest in Cocoa Touch from the blog of Chris Umbel, software developer and database administrator. 2010-01-24 13:01:00 UTC http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/basic_authentication_iphone_cocoa_touch#comment_4c82cf6075fd7f798c00000b ah, thanks for pointing those out. i've updated both sections of code to address the issues you pointed out. http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/basic_authentication_iphone_cocoa_touch#comment_4c82cf6075fd7f798c00000b 2010-09-04T22:59:44+00:00 http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/basic_authentication_iphone_cocoa_touch#comment_4c82cf3475fd7f798c000009 i tried this but there are some issues in code. first one which one i resolved is NSString userName = @\"scott\"; NSString password = @\"tiger\"; userName and password are pointer type so \"*\" is missing. 2nd which i was unable to resolve is in Base64 outputBuffer is undeclared and use first time in this function. so please tell me how to resolve this problem. http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/basic_authentication_iphone_cocoa_touch#comment_4c82cf3475fd7f798c000009 2010-09-04T22:59:00+00:00