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This code is great... helped me out with a core app I am doing.

I hope you do not mind, I used your code and created 2 generic methods:

/*
 url - string url of web service (including .asmx)
 methodName - string methodname(operation) of webservice
 keys = parameters of web service
 objects = values of each parameter in web service
 
 example:
 
 
 NSArray *keys = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"USZip", nil];
 NSArray *keyvalues = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"11235", nil];
 
 
 [self generateWebServiceURLRequest: @"http://www.mywebsite.com/mywebservice.asmx" : @"getMyData": keys: keyvalues]
 
 */
+(NSURLRequest *) generateWebServiceURLRequest : (NSString *) url: (NSString *) methodName: (NSArray *) keys: (NSArray *) objects
{
	NSDictionary *params = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjects:objects forKeys:keys];
	
	NSString *newMethodName;
	
	// We need to start the methodName with a / - since we are using GET Request method
	newMethodName = @"/";
	newMethodName = [newMethodName stringByAppendingString: methodName];
		
	url=[url stringByAppendingString:newMethodName];
		
	BOOL firstKey=TRUE;
	for (NSString *key in params)
	{
		NSString *value=[params objectForKey:key];
		if (firstKey) url=[url stringByAppendingString:@"?"]; else url=[url stringByAppendingString:@"&"];
		url=[url stringByAppendingString:key];
		url=[url stringByAppendingString:@"="];
		url=[url stringByAppendingString:value];
		firstKey=FALSE;
	}
	
	NSURLRequest *theRequest=[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]
											  cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
										  timeoutInterval:60.0];
	
	return theRequest;
}


+(NSURL *) generateWebServiceHTTPGetURL : (NSString *) url: (NSString *) methodName: (NSArray *) keys: (NSArray *) objects
{
	NSDictionary *params = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjects:objects forKeys:keys];
	
	NSString *newMethodName;
	
	NSURL *resultURL;
	
	// We need to start the methodName with a / - since we are using GET Request method
	newMethodName = @"/";
	newMethodName = [newMethodName stringByAppendingString: methodName];
	
	NSLog(@"generateWebServiceHTTPGetURL: newMethodName: %@",newMethodName);
	
	url=[url stringByAppendingString:newMethodName];
	
	BOOL firstKey=TRUE;
	for (NSString *key in params)
	{
		NSString *value=[params objectForKey:key];
		if (firstKey) url=[url stringByAppendingString:@"?"]; else url=[url stringByAppendingString:@"&"];
		url=[url stringByAppendingString:key];
		url=[url stringByAppendingString:@"="];
		url=[url stringByAppendingString:value];
		firstKey=FALSE;
	}
	
	NSLog(@"generateWebServiceHTTPGetURL: URL: %@",(NSString *)url);
	
	resultURL = [NSURL URLWithString:url];
		
	return resultURL;
}