title: NSURLRequest cannot handle HTTP body when method is not POST?
body: <p>Whenever I set a body on a mutable request with the method set to anything other than POST, the body is not included in the request and I get a kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 303 (kCFErrorHTTPParseFailure) when the server replies. Changing the method to POST is all it takes for the request to go through with no error. Is there any way to attach a body to other methods, or are we stuck with POST for everything?</p>
  
  <p>This is the submission code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>NSMutableURLRequest *req = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:assembleURL]];// cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalAndRemoteCacheData timeoutInterval:45.0];
  
  #if (SERVER_TARGET_ARGS_ALLOWED==1)
  [req setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
  [req setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept"];
  
  [req setHTTPMethod:ServerMessageMethods[operation]];    //value is @"POST" or other method name
  
  #endif  
  
  //run the payload into a JSON
  SBJsonWriter *json = [[SBJsonWriter alloc] init];
  NSString *encodedPayload = [json stringWithObject:payload];
  encodedPayload = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", [encodedPayload stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
  NSData *dataPayload = [encodedPayload dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
  [req setHTTPBody:dataPayload];
  
  NSURLConnection *conn = [NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:req delegate:self];
  </code></pre>