diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1aac9d3..eda3bb5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ Option | Description
 `certificate: string` | The uri path to your `.cer` certificate file.
 `allowInvalidCertificates?: boolean` | Default: `false`. This should **always** be `false` if you are using SSL pinning. Set this to `true` if you're using a self-signed certificate.
 `validatesDomainName?: boolean` | Default: `true`. Determines if the domain name should be validated with your pinned certificate.
+`useLegacy?: boolean` | Default: `false`. [IOS only] set to true in order to get the response data (when status >= 300)in the `content` directly instead of `response.body.content`.
 
 ## Webpack / bundling
 Since you're probably shipping a certificate with your app (like [our demo does](https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/nativescript-https/tree/master/demo/app/assets)),
diff --git a/src/https.common.d.ts b/src/https.common.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f2f9bac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/https.common.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import { Headers } from 'tns-core-modules/http';
+export interface HttpsSSLPinningOptions {
+    host: string;
+    certificate: string;
+    allowInvalidCertificates?: boolean;
+    validatesDomainName?: boolean;
+    commonName?: string;
+    useLegacy?: boolean;
+}
+export interface HttpsRequestObject {
+    [key: string]: string | number;
+}
+export interface HttpsRequestOptions {
+    url: string;
+    method: 'GET' | 'POST' | 'PUT' | 'DELETE' | 'PATCH' | 'HEAD';
+    headers?: Headers;
+    params?: HttpsRequestObject;
+    body?: HttpsRequestObject;
+    allowLargeResponse?: boolean;
+    timeout?: number;
+}
+export interface HttpsResponse {
+    headers?: Headers;
+    statusCode?: number;
+    content?: any;
+    reason?: string;
+    reject?: boolean;
+    failure?: any;
+}
diff --git a/src/https.common.ts b/src/https.common.ts
index 99e17cd..f23c0ad 100644
--- a/src/https.common.ts
+++ b/src/https.common.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ export interface HttpsSSLPinningOptions {
   allowInvalidCertificates?: boolean;
   validatesDomainName?: boolean;
   commonName?: string;
+  useLegacy?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface HttpsRequestObject {
@@ -36,4 +37,5 @@ export interface HttpsResponse {
   content?: any;
   reason?: string;
   reject?: boolean;
+  failure?: any;
 }
diff --git a/src/https.ios.ts b/src/https.ios.ts
index e08f26f..8999a93 100644
--- a/src/https.ios.ts
+++ b/src/https.ios.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ interface Ipolicies {
   secure?: AFSecurityPolicy;
 }
 
+let useLegacy: boolean = false;
+
 let policies: Ipolicies = {
   def: AFSecurityPolicy.defaultPolicy(),
   secured: false,
@@ -23,6 +25,7 @@ export function enableSSLPinning(options: Https.HttpsSSLPinningOptions) {
     let data = NSData.dataWithContentsOfFile(options.certificate);
     policies.secure.pinnedCertificates = NSSet.setWithObject(data);
   }
+  useLegacy = (isDefined(options.useLegacy)) ? options.useLegacy : false;
   policies.secured = true;
   console.log('nativescript-https > Enabled SSL pinning');
 }
@@ -35,51 +38,41 @@ export function disableSSLPinning() {
 console.info('nativescript-https > Disabled SSL pinning by default');
 
 function AFSuccess(resolve, task: NSURLSessionDataTask, data?: NSDictionary<string, any> & NSData & NSArray<any>) {
-  let content: any;
-  if (data && data.class) {
-    if (data.enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock || (<any>data) instanceof NSArray) {
-      let serial = NSJSONSerialization.dataWithJSONObjectOptionsError(data, NSJSONWritingOptions.PrettyPrinted);
-      content = NSString.alloc().initWithDataEncoding(serial, NSUTF8StringEncoding).toString();
-    } else if ((<any>data) instanceof NSData) {
-      content = NSString.alloc().initWithDataEncoding(data, NSASCIIStringEncoding).toString();
-    } else {
-      content = data;
-    }
-
-    try {
-      content = JSON.parse(content);
-    } catch (ignore) {
-    }
-
-  } else {
-    content = data;
-  }
-
+  let content = getData(data);
   resolve({task, content});
 }
 
 function AFFailure(resolve, reject, task: NSURLSessionDataTask, error: NSError) {
-  let data: NSData = error.userInfo.valueForKey(AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLResponseDataErrorKey);
-  let body = NSString.alloc().initWithDataEncoding(data, NSUTF8StringEncoding).toString();
-
-  try {
-    body = JSON.parse(body);
-  } catch (ignore) {
-  }
-
-  let content: any = {
-    body,
-    description: error.description,
-    reason: error.localizedDescription,
-    url: error.userInfo.objectForKey('NSErrorFailingURLKey').description
-  };
-
-  if (policies.secured === true) {
-    content.description = 'nativescript-https > Invalid SSL certificate! ' + content.description;
-  }
+    let data: NSDictionary<string, any> & NSData & NSArray<any> = error.userInfo.valueForKey(AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLResponseDataErrorKey);
+    let parsedData = getData(data);
+    if (useLegacy) {
+        let failure: any = {
+           body: parsedData,
+           description: error.description,
+           reason: error.localizedDescription,
+           url: error.userInfo.objectForKey('NSErrorFailingURLKey').description
+       };
+       if (policies.secured === true) {
+           failure.description = 'nativescript-https > Invalid SSL certificate! ' + error.description;
+       }
+       let reason = error.localizedDescription;
+       let content = parsedData;
+       resolve({task: task, content: content, reason: reason, failure: failure});
+    } else {
+        let content: any = {
+            body: parsedData,
+            description: error.description,
+            reason: error.localizedDescription,
+            url: error.userInfo.objectForKey('NSErrorFailingURLKey').description
+        };
+
+        if (policies.secured === true) {
+            content.description = 'nativescript-https > Invalid SSL certificate! ' + content.description;
+        }
 
-  let reason = error.localizedDescription;
-  resolve({task, content, reason});
+        let reason = error.localizedDescription;
+        resolve({task, content, reason});
+    }
 }
 
 export function request(opts: Https.HttpsRequestOptions): Promise<Https.HttpsResponse> {
@@ -174,3 +167,25 @@ export function request(opts: Https.HttpsRequestOptions): Promise<Https.HttpsRes
     return Promise.resolve(sendi);
   });
 }
+
+function getData(data) {
+    let content: any;
+    if (data && data.class) {
+        if (data.enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock || (<any>data) instanceof NSArray) {
+            let serial = NSJSONSerialization.dataWithJSONObjectOptionsError(data, NSJSONWritingOptions.PrettyPrinted);
+            content = NSString.alloc().initWithDataEncoding(serial, NSUTF8StringEncoding).toString();
+        } else if ((<any>data) instanceof NSData) {
+            content = NSString.alloc().initWithDataEncoding(data, NSASCIIStringEncoding).toString();
+        } else {
+            content = data;
+        }
+
+        try {
+            content = JSON.parse(content);
+        } catch (e) {
+        }
+    } else {
+        content = data;
+    }
+    return content;
+}
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