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HTTP in iOS development |
2015-09-11 |
HTTP vs HTTPS in iOS 9. |
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Yesterday, I have had a problem to download a data(picture) from a web page. Despite, I was pretty sure that each line of code I have wrote was correct, I cannot prevent myself to see the default image all my tableview on the application that I developed. App doesn’t load picture from URLs, it just show the picture in its assets folder. The code just have some warning, and that’s all. After many times I checked whether the URLs that I borrowed pictures are active, and built the application for couple of times, I realised that on Xcode, “Application Transport Security has blocked a cleartext HTTP (http://) resource load since it is insecure. Temporary exceptions can be configured via your app’s Info.plist file.” warning appears.
Application Transport Security has blocked a cleartext HTTP (http://) resource load since it is insecure. Temporary exceptions can be configured via your app’s Info.plist file.
Swift Compiler
Apparently, apple doesn’t want your app to talk with the insecure HTTP instead of secure HTTPS. For that reason, it sets default not to talk with HTTP, but you have the power to change it!
And after some search, I found the solution.
Adding the following to your Info.plist will disable Application Transport Security and let the application to talk with the HTTP.
{% highlight swift %}
NSAppTransportSecurity
NSAllowsArbitraryLoads
{% endhighlight %}
Happy coding!