[CB-1889] White-list exception enhancements for plugins

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: cordova-ios
• Assignee: Shazron Abdullah
• Reporter: Shazron Abdullah
• Created: 21/Nov/12 18:50
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:38
• Resolved: 07/Dec/12 20:22

Description

See CB-1695

1. CDVViewController needs a UserAgent property that plugins can query, so they can set their NSURLRequest User-Agent to the same UserAgent, so they can take advantage of the white-list. Right now, any other network connection that is not part of the main Cordova UIWebView is excepted from the white-list with the changes in CB-1695.
2. Have a way for plugins to query the whitelist before sending out requests
3. The UA in (1) should be cached after being discovered (since it requires a costly UIWebView instantation the first time). Cache the iOS version as well, so that we invalidate the UA if the iOS version changes. Also, hook into locale change notifications, if a locale change happens, invalidate the cached UA value as well.

Issue Links

• relates to: CB-1695 [iOS]: CDVURLProtocol should not apply whitelist to non-Cordova view controllers/requests