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by Velox 3899 days ago
Just because it's old doesn't mean it's unmaintained.
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ASIHTTPRequest has been unmaintained for years.
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(SourceDNA helps developers secure & improve their apps, and one of the things we identify is out-of-date static libraries.)