Needed to add NSAllowsArbitraryLoads on iOS

[rricamar]

Hello @jcesarmobile, first of all, thanks for the plugin ❤️, it came in handy when working with some dev servers where we cannot change the certificates 😞

I only have a small question: on iOS I had to add the following property on the info.plist to make the plugin work (on Android, it works fine with any additional setting):

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
  <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
  <true/>
</dict>

Is this needed or it shouldn't? 🤔

According to Apple Docs, I thought that this setting only allowed to interact with HTTP requests, so I don't know why the plugin didn't work until I added it...

Thank you in advance 🙏

[jcesarmobile]

I've only tested the plugin for live reload servers, in example with angular running ng serve --ssl and then setting the Capacitor's server.url to "url": "https://localhost:8100" (and also with a local IP) and it worked without adding the NSAppTransportSecurity entry. I have not tried doing XHR/fetch requests to a https url with self signed certificates, is that your use case?

[rricamar]

Hello @jcesarmobile,

Yes, that's the case. The server I'm working with is not a local one but a remote one with its own URL.

[jcesarmobile]

Do you have the http plugin enabled or disabled?

[rricamar]

Do you have the http plugin enabled or disabled?

Sorry for the late response 😓

No, I'm not using the Capacitor HTTP plugin or the Cookies plugin 👍