NSURL *xmlURL = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://www.powenko.com"]; NSURLRequest *req = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:xmlURL cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReturnCacheDataElseLoad timeoutInterval:30];  NSURLResponse *resp = nil; NSData *data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:req returningResponse:&resp if (!data) return nil; NSLog(@"Received %ld bytes.", [data length]); return nil;