I have a class that builds a request based on a few passed in variables. The class also has all the delegate methods to receive the data and stores it in a property for the calling class to retrieve.

When the class initializes it creates a connection and then returns itself:

NSURLConnection *connection;
if (self = [super init]) {
    self.delegate = theDelegate;
    ...some code here...
    connection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:theRequest  delegate:self  startImmediately:YES];
}
return self;

So I can't release it normally and if I autorelease it crashes. Is it the job of the calling class to release? And if so does just releasing the initilised object also release connection or do you have to release it specifically? If so how would you?

Thanks