You want to call a web service using the HTTP PUT method to place a resource into the web server, and perhaps pass parameters as part of the HTTP body or in the query string, to the web service.

Just as with the GET, POST, and DELETE methods, we can use the PUT method using NSURLConnection. We must explicitly set our URL’s method to PUT.

I have set up a dummy web service at the following address: http://pixolity.com/put.php. If you open this URL in your browser, you will see something similar to the screen shown in Figure 8-5:

Figure 8-5. The PUT web service opened in a web browser