[CB-10109] Allow WKWebView to proxy file:// url loading in XmlHttpRequest.open

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: Ionic
• Labels: wkwebview-known-issues
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Shazron Abdullah
• Created: 02/Dec/15 00:02
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:57
• Resolved: 10/Jul/18 07:36

Description

Because of CORS, you can only open requests using http*:// schemes, not file.

Ultimately this might be a new plugin. The plugin needs to:

1. Run a local webserver
2. Proxy XmlHttpRequest.open and rewrite urls that go to (1)

The local webserver in (1) will route the requests using the appropriate handler, and will need to utilize a secret to prevent unauthorized access.

Something like this: https://github.com/phonegap/connect-phonegap/blob/master/res/middleware/proxy.js

Issue Links

• duplicates: CB-10143 Local file:// url XmlHttpRequests are not allowed in WKWebViewEngine
• is depended upon by: CB-10143 Local file:// url XmlHttpRequests are not allowed in WKWebViewEngine
• is depended upon by: CB-10144 You can't make cross-origin XmlHttpRequests in WKWebView
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #15