NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
	NSString *authStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@:%@", [defaults objectForKey:@"GITHUB_USERNAME"], [defaults objectForKey:@"GITHUB_PASSWORD"]];
	NSData *authData = [authStr dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
	NSString *authValue = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Basic %@", [authData base64EncodingWithLineLength:80]];
	[theRequest setValue:authValue forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];

	[theRequest setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
	[theRequest setHTTPBody: [bodyString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

	NSURLConnection *conn = [NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:theRequest delegate:self];
	[conn start];