- (NSData *) queryAuthServer:(NSString *)user queryAuthPass:(NSString *)pass {
	NSString *postDataString = [self generatePostStringFromUser:user pass:pass];
	NSMutableURLRequest *request;
	NSURL *serverURL;
	NSData *postData;
	NSMutableData *responseData = [[NSMutableData alloc] init];

	postData = [postDataString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
	//postData = [[NSData alloc] initWithBytes:[postDataString UTF8String] length:[postDataString length]];
	//postData = [NSData dataWithBytes:[postDataString UTF8String] length:[postDataString length]];
	//postData = [[NSData alloc] init];
	// ASSERT: postData has been set.
	serverURL = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:VALIDATION_URL];
	// ASSERT: serverURL has been set

	request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:serverURL];
	[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
	[request setHTTPBody:postData];
	// ASSERT: Setup the POST request to the server to submit the username and password.

	[responseData appendData:[NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:nil]];
	// ASSERT: responseData contains XML to be parsed from the POST to the server for validation.

	[request release];
	[serverURL release];
	[postData release];
	[postDataString release];
	// ASSERT: Released all the memory used in this method.

	return responseData;
	//return [[NSData alloc] init];
}