ionic emulate ios --livereload changes config.xml

[sryze]

Short description of the problem:

After running ionic emulate ios --livereload ionic adds a new <allow-navigation> entry to config.xml which results in unwanted version control changes.

After some time config.xml contains a lot of things like:

   <allow-navigation href="http://192.168.0.1:8102"/>
   <allow-navigation href="http://192.168.1.10:8100"/>

Basically IP addresses of every development machine where you used livereload on iOS.

What behavior are you expecting?

No config.xml changes.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Remove all allow-navigation elements from config.xml
2. Execute ionic emulate ios -l
3. Config is modified

Ionic info

Cordova CLI: 6.4.0
Ionic CLI Version: 2.1.18
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.1.9
ios-deploy version: 1.9.0
ios-sim version: 5.0.13
OS: macOS Sierra
Node Version: v7.0.0
Xcode version: Xcode 8.2.1 Build version 8C1002

[renjithspace]

+1

[imhoffd]

🔖 2018 Update: The latest CLI still leaves multiple <allow-navigation> tags in config.xml after the Cordova run/emulate is finished. These configuration entries are only necessary during run/emulate, not after. We already are successfully changing <content src="index.html"> during run/emulate, and reverting it to what it was when the command finishes. I imagine the code for removing unnecessary <allow-navigation tags would live in the same spot.