AFNetworking/AFNetworking — pull request #610 by tonyxiao (2012-10-29 07:14:55+00:00)
Title: Patching AFHTTPClient to allow requesting arbitrary URL

Currently it is very difficult and cumbersome to use AFHTTPClient with arbitrary urls, since the dependence on baseURL is hard-coded in, a subclass solution would not work without significantly duplicating code. There are many situations such as downloading files, images or thumbnails where the ability to easily send requests to arbitrary URLs is very helpful. Therefore a few URL based methods are added to the API alongside existing paths based methods. It shouldn't break any existing code, and would make it possible to request `NSURL`'s directly using `AFHTTPClient`