[joshavant]

4 of the top 100 iOS apps are STILL using ASIHTTPRequest? ಠ_ಠ

[ianstallings]

Because they're not going to rewrite or replace code that already has been tested and works in production.

[gorena]

Using an unmaintained networking stack should terrify you.

[Velox]

Just because it's old doesn't mean it's unmaintained.

[plorkyeran]

ASIHTTPRequest has been unmaintained for years.

[NateLawson]

Correct, the banner shows it was last updated in 2011.

http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/

Given the problems we found with SSL domain verification in another networking library, you definitely don't want to be using unmaintained code for this.

https://sourcedna.com/blog/20150420/afnetworking-vulnerabili...

(SourceDNA helps developers secure & improve their apps, and one of the things we identify is out-of-date static libraries.)