Using NSURL with a PHP Web Service that uses a brackets in its get request

I am writing an iPhone application that needs to get data from a web service. In this service, there is a possibility of the sa开发者_如何学编程me variable having multiple values, and this variable is accessed using [ ] brackets. (I am not a PHP developer, but I understand this scheme is not uncommon for PHP services.)

So a sample request might look like:

example.com/service.php?id[]=1&id[]=2

The code I am using to form the URL looks like this:

NSString *string = @"http://example.com/service.php?id[]=1&id[]=2";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:string];
NSMutableURLRequest *networkRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
...

The problem is that, after the second line, the URL is automatically encoded, so that the URL is really tries to access looks like this:

example.com/service.php?id%5B%5D=1&id%5B%5D=2

As a result, my request does not access the information I want. Is there a way to prevent NSURL from encoding my URL so that it can access this web service?

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In my case, it turned out that communication with the service owner revealed irregular behavior on the server that caused the problem, but I was attributing it to NSURL's handling of strings. My apologizes, and thank you for your responses.

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I was having such issue in my application, I solved by encoding my url string before construction of the url. So I think u need to do it like this

NSString *string = @"http://example.com/service.php?id%5B%5D=1&id%5B%5D=2";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:string];
NSMutableURLRequest *networkRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];

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Perhaps simply escape them:

NSString *string = @"http://example.com/service.php?id\[\]=1&id\[\]=2";

It's possible that it will just end up URLEncoding the backslashes, too, but it's worth a shot.