how to prevent NSJSONSerialization from adding extra escapes in URL

Yeah, this is quite irritating and even more so because it seems there's no "quick" fix to this (i.e. for NSJSONSerialization)

source:
http://www.blogosfera.co.uk/2013/04/nsjsonserialization-serialization-of-a-string-containing-forward-slashes-and-html-is-escaped-incorrectly/
or
NSJSONSerialization serialization of a string containing forward slashes / and HTML is escaped incorrectly

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(just shooting in the dark here so bear with me)
If, you're making your own JSON then simply make an NSData object out of a string and send it to the server.
No need to go via NSJSONSerialization.

Something like:

NSString *strPolicy = [info description];
NSData *policyData = [strPolicy dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

i know it won't be so simple but... hm... anyways

If your target is >= iOS 13.0, then just add .withoutEscapingSlashes to the options.

Example:

let data = try JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: someJSONObject, options: [.prettyPrinted, .withoutEscapingSlashes])

print(String(data: data, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8) ?? "")

This worked for me

NSDictionary *policy = ....;
NSData *policyData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:policy options:kNilOptions error:&error];
if(!policyData && error){
    NSLog(@"Error creating JSON: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
    return;
}

//NSJSONSerialization converts a URL string from http://... to http:\/\/... remove the extra escapes
policyStr = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:policyData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
policyStr = [policyStr stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\\/" withString:@"/"];
policyData = [policyStr dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];