UISearchBar url request

Question

I have a downloader in which I am trying to get the pasted text in my search bar to start downloading on tapping the return key.

How would I get the search bar to send a request to the pasted text to initialize the download?

What I'm calling:

NSString *pasteboardString = searchBar.text;
NSURL  *url = [NSURL URLWithString:pasteboardString];

What needs to get triggered:

[self downloadURL:*HAS TO BE URL* userInfo:nil]; 

Any help is appreciated, thank you.

Answer 1

So I ended up figuring it out. In case somebody finds this useful.

#pragma mark - Firing Download
- (void)searchBarSearchButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
{
    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^
    {
        // Do the search...
        NSURL  *url = [NSURL URLWithString:searchBar.text];
        NSURLRequest *req = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
        bool valid = [NSURLConnection canHandleRequest:req];

        if(valid)
        {
            [self downloadURL:url userInfo:nil];
            NSLog(@"Valid URL - %@",searchBar.text);
            [searchBar resignFirstResponder];
            [searchBar setText:nil];
        }
        else
        {
            [alert showError:@"Enter valid url"];
            [searchBar becomeFirstResponder];
            [searchBar setText:nil];
        }
    });
    NSLog(@"Search Button Pressed");
}