ios7引入了nsurlsession，通过它可以支持后台相关的网络操作的新特性。让我们看看它有哪些好处：
1.后台上传下载；
2.不需要通过nsoperation,我们用nsurlsession的api就可以做到网络操作的暂停和恢复。
3.作为可配置的容器：例如你可以设置http头的一些属性并且保存在session里，你就不用重复去做配置了；don't repeat yourself~
4.可以子类化并支持私有的存储；
5.对鉴权的回调做了改进，此前nsurlconnection的鉴权回调无法和请求进行匹配，该回调可能来自任意的请求；而现在每个请求都可以在指定的代理方法中对其进行处理.
翻译材料如下：（来自链接：http://www.raywenderlich.com/51127/nsurlsession-tutorial）
Why Use NSURLSession?
Why should you use NSURLSession? Well, it brings
you a number of new advantages and benefits:
-
Background uploads and downloads: With just a configuration option when the
NSURLSessionis
created, you get all the benefits of background networking. This helps with battery life, supports UIKit multitasking and uses the same delegate model as in-process transfers. -
Ability to pause and resume networking operations: As you will see later, with the
NSURLSession API any networking task can be paused, stopped, and restarted. No NSOperation sub-classing necessary. -
Configurable container: Each
NSURLSessionis
the configurable container for putting requests into. For example, if you need to set an HTTP header option you will only need to do this once and each request in the session will have the same configuration. -
Subclassable and private storage:
NSURLSessionis
subclassable and you can configure a session to use private storage on a per session basis. This allows you to have private storage objects outside of the global state. -
Improved authentication handling: Authentication is done on a specific connection basis.
When usingNSURLConnectionif an authentication
challenge was issued, the challenge would come back for an arbitrary request, you wouldn’t know exactly what request was getting the challenge. WithNSURLSession,
the delegate handles authentication.