Hi

Many enterprise apps require functionality to access self-signed URLs so this 
option is really missing in the InAppBrowser. In the main PhoneGap web view, 
one can overwrite a public function (onReceivedSslError()) to allow self-signed 
URLs so something similar should be possible in the InAppBrowser too. You can 
check the following app which has been made using PhoneGap:

Regards,
Raman

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Soref [mailto:jso...@blackberry.com]
Sent: 24 July 2013 01:51
To: dev@cordova.apache.org
Cc: Singh, Ramandeep
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?
> >

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