I found one solution to this problem... I think it has got something to do with the headers that were missing.
If I replace
NSURLResponse *urlresponse = [[NSURLResponse alloc] initWithURL:[request URL] MIMEType:@"application/json" expectedContentLength:[data length] textEncodingName:@"UTF-8"];
NSCachedURLResponse *cachedResponse = [[NSCachedURLResponse alloc] initWithResponse:urlresponse data:data];
With
NSHTTPURLResponse *urlresponse = [[NSHTTPURLResponse alloc] initWithURL:request.URL statusCode:200 HTTPVersion:@"1.1" headerFields:nil];
NSCachedURLResponse *cachedResponse = [[NSCachedURLResponse alloc] initWithResponse:urlresponse data:data];
The whole thing works. This answer in addition suggested the additional custom header of the request. https://stackoverflow.com/a/15234850/274518
NSDictionary *headers = @{@"Access-Control-Allow-Origin" : @"*", @"Access-Control-Allow-Headers" : @"Content-Type"};
NSHTTPURLResponse *urlresponse = [[NSHTTPURLResponse alloc] initWithURL:request.URL statusCode:200 HTTPVersion:@"1.1" headerFields:headers];
In my case I did not needed it.