private fun native_http_get(timeout: Float, error_ref: Ref[NSString]): NSData
	import Ref[NSString].item= in "ObjC" `{

		NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:self];
		NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url
			cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy timeoutInterval:timeout];

		NSURLResponse *response = nil;
		NSError *error = nil;
		NSData *data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request
			returningResponse:&response error:&error];

		if (data == nil) {
			// Report error
			Ref_of_NSString_item__assign(error_ref, [error localizedDescription]);
			return nil;
		}

		return data;
	`}