Sending JSON Data using NSURLConnection:

NSString *jsonPostBody = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"'json' = '{\"user\":{\"username\":"
                          "\"%@\""
                          ",\"password\":"
                          "\"%@\""
                          "}}'",
                          [username stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding],
                          [password stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];      
NSData *postData = [jsonPostBody dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSString *apiPathParams = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",
                           @"getUser"
                           ];

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[[apiPath retain] stringByAppendingString:apiPathParams]];   
NSMutableURLRequest* request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url
                                                       cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData
                                                   timeoutInterval:180.0];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setHTTPBody:postData];
NSString* postDataLengthString = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%d", [postData length]];
[request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[request setValue:postDataLengthString forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];
[self internalRequest:request];


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NSMutableURLRequest* request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:nil];
[request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"content-type"];
[request setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", [loginDataJSON length]] forHTTPHeaderField:@"content-length"];
//[request setHTTPBody:loginDataJSON];

[request setHTTPBody:[[jsonPostBody stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]
                      dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
                   allowLossyConversion:YES]];