Synchronous HTTP requests and QEventLoop

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First of all I'm trying perform synchronous HTTP requests. QNetworkAccessManager doesn't seem to offer support for it, so I'm trying to emulate this with a separate event loop.

QNetworkAccessManager NAManager;
QUrl url ("http://www.google.com");
QNetworkRequest request(url);
QNetworkReply *reply = NAManager.get(request);
QEventLoop eventLoop;
QObject::connect(reply, SIGNAL(finished()), &eventLoop, SLOT(quit()));
eventLoop.exec();
std::cout << "finished" << std::endl; //request finished here

QNetworkAccessManager NAManager;
QUrl url ("http://www.google.com");
QNetworkRequest request(url);
QNetworkReply *reply = NAManager.get(request);
QEventLoop eventLoop;
QObject::connect(reply, SIGNAL(finished()), &eventLoop, SLOT(quit()));
eventLoop.exec();
std::cout << "finished" << std::endl; //request finished here

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Question: is there a nicer way to achieve this?

Another question: is it possible to create an event loop that allows you to manually post events to it?