It came up this morning that Enterprise could use something like this. An app that is deployed into the Enterprise secure container, already being enforced/controlled by corporate firewall etc., and approved for use internally might want "blanket" access to any internal domain. --
Ken Wallis Senior Product Manager – WebWorks BlackBerry 289-261-4369 ________________________________________ From: Josh Soref [jso...@blackberry.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:20 PM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Cc: ramandeep.si...@barco.com Subject: RE: Ignoring SSL Errors for InAppBrowser A simple flag is definitely wrong... a static whitelist could be interesting. Are there real use cases beyond `localhost`? If someone whitelists any site that isn't on the local device, then when I'm in an Internet Café, the wrong thing can happen (and in certain cases, the wrong thing probably will happen). Making it easy for people to write broken applications doesn't seem to be a good "value-add". Unfortunately, people will do the wrong thing and not care about their customers.... But, this is just my personal opinion.... > -----Original Message----- > From: Shazron [mailto:shaz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 3:40 PM > To: dev@cordova.apache.org > Cc: ramandeep.si...@barco.com > Subject: Re: Ignoring SSL Errors for InAppBrowser > > Why the js callback and not just the static white-list? > the js callback allows someone to change the security rules at runtime > which could be a hole I suppose. > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Grieve > <agri...@chromium.org>wrote: > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-3576 > > > > There are pulls request for adding to iOS & Android that add: > > > > window.open(url, '_blank', 'location=yes,validatessl=no'); > > > > > > Given that this is security-related though, I wanted to get more eyes on > > it. Other proposals are to have each questionable cert go through a JS > > callback: > > > > var iab = window.open(...); > > iab.onSSLError = function(url) { > > return !!/^https://myalloweddomain.com\//.exec(url); > > }; > > > > Or to add a white-list to your config.xml for allowed self-signed https: > > addresses. > > > > If your app is not going to validate ssl certs, then perhaps restricting > > the scope of it isn't really increasing security anyways. It's certainly > > useful for development to be able to turn it off, but maybe for that reason > > we should turn it off globally with a <preference> tag? > > > > Thoughts? Willingness from other platforms? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful.
